Wednesday, May 2, 2012




Ananda Chants
How to play each chant on harmonium



Purchase the Ananda Chants book.
If you're a beginner, see bottom of this page!
If you'd like ALL the mp3's, contact me here.
 
Invocations
Video   Hymn to Brahma version 1-Sanskrit
Video   Hymn to Brahma version 1-English  
Video   Hymn to Brahma version 2-traditional
Video   Twameva Mata

Chants
Video   AUM Kali  (Click HERE, read note #2 about bump notes)
Video   AUM Namo Bhagavate
Video   AUM Namo Narayana
Video   Blue Lotus Feet  ***Note the new melody & timing***
Video   Come Out of the Darkness, Mother  (Click HERE, read note #2 about bump notes)
Video   Door of My Heart, 3 part (Don't play chords in parentheses)
Video   Door of My Heart (Don't play chords in parentheses)
Video   Ever New Joy
Video   Gioia, Gioia, Gioia
Video   Father, Mother, Friend Our God, wedding version
Video   Fill Me with the Sound of AUM
Video   From Joy I Came (Click HERE, read note #2 about bump notes)
Video   Govinda Jai Jai
Video   Hare Krishna! Vieni Gesù!
Video   How Shall I Love Thee?
Video   Quanto Ti Amerò?
Video   I Am But an Empty Vessel
Video   I Am Freeupdated 2012 by Kriyananda
Video   I Am the Bubble, Make Me the Sea
Video   I Awake in Thy Light
Video   I Give Thee My Soul Call
Video   I Want Only Thee (Click HERE, read note #2 about bump notes)
Video   Voglio Solo Te
Video   I Will Always Think of Thee
Video   Quando Mi Sveglio
Video   I Will Drink Thy Name
Video   I Will Drink Thy Name, adapted by Kriyananda  ***Note the optional harmony parts***
Video   I Will Never Forget Thee (Listen, Listen, Listen) 
Video   I’m Determined No More to Play
Video   In the Temple of Silence
Video   Jai Guru, Paramhansa Yogananda
Video   Light the Lamp of Thy Love
Video   Lord, I Am Thine, key of C  ***Note the optional harmony parts***
Video   Lord, I Am Thine, key of A  ***Note the optional harmony parts***
Video   Lord, When in Darkness  ***Click HERE, read note #1***
Video   Seguirò Sempre Te  ***Click HERE, read note #1***
Video   No Birth, No Death
Video   O God Beautiful  ***Note the new melody note on "sorrowful"***
Video   Polestar of My Life
Video   Rest in God
Video   Reveal Thyself!
Video   Rise in Freedom
Video   Saint Teresa of Avila’s Admonition
Video   Sri Gurudeva AUM
Video   Sri Ram, Jai Ram version 1
Video   Sri Ram, Jai Ram version 2
Video   Sri Yogananda
Video   Thou Art My Life
Video   Thousands of Suns
Video   Through All Trials
Video   Thy Will, Not Mine
Video   Today My Mind Has Dived
Video   Vieni Presto Gesù / Come to Me, Jesus (Note how the drone needs to be mostly omitted)
Video   What Is This Life? (Note that the chant is 2 pages, but in the book they're back-to-back, so you'll need to photocopy the 2nd page, or use 2 books.)
Video   What Lightning Flash  ***Note the new timing; plus different chords on both "in"s***
Video   When I Awake
Video   Where Is There Love?  ***Note the new timing***
Video   Who Is in My Temple?  ***Note the new drone***
Video   You Fill My Heart with Music
Video   Il Mio Cuore

A Festival of Light 
Video   Thunder of AUM, The (Timing, 115 bpm)
Video   You Remain Our Friend (Cm) (Timing, 68 bpm; melody played here, just for fun, but sing it a cappella)
Video   You Remain Our Friend (Dm) (Timing, 68 bpm; melody played here, just for fun, but sing it a cappella)
Video   Thy Light within Us Shining (Fm) (Timing, 80 bpm; a cappella)
Video   Thy Light within Us Shining (Gm) (Timing, 80 bpm; a cappella)
Video   Father, Mother, Friend, Our God (Timing, 96 bpm)
Video   AUM Christ, Amen (Timing, 84 bpm)
Video   Sing Out with Joy (Timing, 100 bpm)


Other Chants, not in the Ananda Chants book 
Video   Desire, My Great Enemy
Video   Divine Gypsy 

For Beginners
NEW!  Video  What's Chanting, Why Do It, and How?
Video  How to open & close your Bina 23-B portable harmonium
Video   How to play harmonium "drone" notes
Video   Should I play melody or chords on the harmonium?
Video   Play "the easiest chant in the world" right now on your harmonium! (I Will Never Forget Thee--an easy "chord" version where you only move one finger!)
Click, Read Note #2  About using "bump notes" in chants to keep rhythm
Click, Read Note #3  How long should I play a chant?

By Bharat Castelli, these excellent "how to play" harmonium tutorials for many chants:
Full Video Playlist

And, his own playing of many chants: 
Full Video Playlist

By Tandava:  Harmonium Chanting for Beginners online course, Check it out!

Also by Tandava, a wonderful 3-part video series from 2015:
--> Click HERE for handouts used during series
Video   Harmonium for Beginners, Talk 1 of 3, 10/6/15
Video   Harmonium for Beginners, Talk 2 of 3, 10/13/15
Video   Harmonium for Beginners, Talk 3 of 3, 10/20/15
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In Master's joy,
Dambara