Welcome to the colourful world of Rainbow Magic Kiirtan. Here you will be able to learn hundreds of new kiirtan melodies on guitar, harmonium or almost any other instrument you play, even if you don’t know how to read music. Kiirtans are shown in hooktheory format. Press Play and choose Piano or YouTube to see how it works, or watch the video tutorial. Once you are familiar with this system you are ready to visit the
The song shown here “A Tantric Nation” is recorded in the key of D minor. The chords used are dm (D minor), C, Bb, am (A minor) and F. If you are unfamiliar with any of these chords you can change the song into the key of A minor by clicking where it says D Min and selecting A. The chords will change to am, G, F, em and C. If you put a capo on the 5th fret of your guitar you will still be able to play along with the YouTube recording using those easier chords. You can do this with songs in the kiirtan library that are in any minor key. If they are in a Major key then changing it to C major will usually give you the easiest chords to play.
This video tutorial will explain what you need to know to get started with the resources available in the kiirtan library.
You will soon discover that once you learn the colour code you will be able to play nearly all of the kiirtans in the kirtan library just by just knowing the chords C,F,G,am, em and dm.
The song shown here “A Tantric Nation” is recorded in the key of D minor. The chords used are dm (D minor), C, Bb, am (A minor) and F. If you are unfamiliar with any of these chords you can change the song into the key of A minor by clicking where it says D Min and selecting A. The chords will change to am, G, F, em and C. If you put a capo on the 5th fret of your guitar you will still be able to play along with the YouTube recording using those easier chords. You can do this with any of the songs in the kiirtan library that are in a minor key. If they are in a Major key then changing it to C major will usually give you the easiest chords to play.
