Swaras And The Symbols in Bansuri Music Learning

All holes open: Teevra MA
One hole closed : GA
Two holes closed: RE
Three holes closed: SA
Four holes closed: NI
Five holes closed: DHA
Six holes closed: PA

The Bansuri Notations and The Symbols

Understanding The Bansuri Notations

For Lower Octave notes there will be a ‘dot’ added before notation, example – Lower octave Pa is denoted as .P
For Middle Octave notes there will no symbols added before or after the notation, example – Middle octave Sa is denoted as S
For Higher Octave notes there will be a symbol in front of the notation, for example, Higher octave Re is denoted as R’

.P .D .N S R G M P D N S’ R’ G’ M’
LOWER OCTAVE MIDDLE OCTAVE HIGHER OCTAVE

The symbol ‘ > ‘ means that we have to extend the note behind that symbol.
In some cases if we want to make groups in a series of notes then we put a comma (,) for those notes.

For example- PDN, DNS, NSR, SRG, RGM, GMP’