{"id":814,"date":"2023-06-06T10:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T10:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saraswativeena.co.in\/?p=814"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T10:01:38","slug":"varieties-of-plucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theveena.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/06\/varieties-of-plucking\/","title":{"rendered":"Varieties of Plucking"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sanna Meetu: Mild striking for delicate sound<\/li>\n<li>Dodda Meetu: Hard striking for loud sound<\/li>\n<li>Lo Meetu: Index finger strikes string from top to bottom<\/li>\n<li>Veli Meetu: Strike from bottom to upwards<\/li>\n<li>Kattera Meetu: Index and middle finger strikes in quick succession<\/li>\n<li>Todu Meetu: Index and middle finger strikes separately<\/li>\n<li>Tada Meetu: Middle finger strikes 3rd letter in Tisram<\/li>\n<li>Addu Meetu: Index finger strikes, middle finger stops, and middle finger strikes again for Sahityam<\/li>\n<li>Abaddhapu Meetu: Striking for beauty and pleasure without sahityaakshara<\/li>\n<li>Koota Meetu: Simultaneously striking all 4 strings with 3 fingers for beauty<\/li>\n<li>Vidi Meetu: Separately striking Shadja, Mandra Panchama, and Mandra Shadja strings for beauty<\/li>\n<li>Pakka Meetu: Simultaneously striking side tala strings from bottom to top<\/li>\n<li>Gotu Meetu: Simultaneously striking upper string and tala strings<\/li>\n<li>Pattu Meetu: Index finger strikes and middle finger stops naada, similar to staccato in Western Music<\/li>\n<li>Swara Meetu: Striking every swara<\/li>\n<li>Sahitya Meetu: Striking only for Saahityakshara<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If one learns all 16 varieties of striking and practices Janta Swaras with gamakas like Aandolita and Kampita, then they have achieved mastery in Veena playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanna Meetu: Mild striking for delicate sound Dodda Meetu: Hard striking for loud sound Lo Meetu: Index finger strikes string from top to bottom Veli Meetu: Strike from bottom to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theveena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theveena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theveena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theveena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theveena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theveena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theveena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theveena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theveena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}