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'''Vadi''', in both [[Hindustani classical music]] and [[Carnatic music]], is the tonic (root) [[swara]] (musical note) of a given [[raga]] (musical scale). "Vadi is the most sonant or most important note of a Raga."<ref>Nad Understanding Raga Music, Bagchee, Sandeep</ref> It does not refer to the most played note but it rather refers to a note of special significance.
It is usually the swara which is repeated the greatest number of times, and often it is the swara on which the singer can pause for a significant time. Vadi swara in a raga is like a king in a kingdom. The specialty of any raaga depends on vadi swara and because of this, the vadi swara is also called the ''Jeeva swara'' or the ''Ansha swara''. A good artist uses vadi swara in different ways like singing vaadi swara again and again, starting a raga with vadi swara, to end a raaga with vadi swara, singing vadi swara many times in important places with different swaras or sometime singing vadi swara for a longer time in one breath.

''Vadi'' swara is also helpful to identify the appropriate time for singing or playing a raga. If the vadi swara of a raaga is from the purvanga part of the [[saptak]] i.e. “Sa Re Ga Ma”, then it is called purvanga vaadi raaga and usually the time for singing or playing purvanga vaadi raagas is from 12 pm to 12 am. For example, ragas like [[Bhimpalasi]], [[Pilu]], [[Purvi]], [[Marwa (raga)|Marwa]], [[Yaman (raga)|Yaman]], [[Bhoopali]], and [[Bageshree]] etc. have purvanga vadi swara and so the time for singing and playing these ragas is between 12 pm to 12 am.

In the same way, if the vaadi swara of a raaga is from the utranga part of the saptak i.e. “Ma Pa Dha Ni” then it is classed as a utraanga vaadi raaga and the time for singing or playing utraanga vaadi ragas is from 12 am to 12 pm. For example, ragas in Hindustani classical music like [[Bhairav (raga)|Bhairav]], [[Bhairavi (raga)|Bhairavi]], [[Bilawal]], Kalingada, [[Sohini]], and [[Asavari]] etc. have utraanga vaadi swara and so the time for singing or playing these ragas is between 12 am to 12 pm.

''Vaadi'' swara, along with the ''[[Samavadi]]'' swara of a raga, usually brings out the uniqueness of the raga and its bhaava (mood) and [[rasa (aesthetics)|rasa]] (emotion).

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[[Category:Hindustani music terminology]]

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