Harmonium Ragas & Thaats — Indian Music Scales

Ragas are the melodic framework of Indian classical music. Each raga defines which notes to use, how to ascend and descend, which notes to emphasize, and what emotional character to convey. Learning ragas on the web harmonium deepens your understanding of every Indian composition, since every song is rooted in a specific raga.

Hindustani music organizes ragas into 10 parent scales called thaats. Each thaat provides a family of ragas that share the same note set. Start with Bilawal (the major scale, all natural notes) and progress to Yaman (the majestic evening raga with tivra Ma). Then apply what you learn to harmonium songs with sargam notation.