Intro to my blogs
I was initially never a fan of carnatic music. It was my mom who forced my sister and me to attend the classes. We had 3 to 4 different tragic episodes of attending classes. Then we successfully finished our junior exams with something called scraping through the exams. We thought it was over. But it was not. Mom had big plans of putting us into higher learning. We went to a very reputed teacher this time. All her students were professional by now (all of them school going kids and I was almost in college by then). We had a tough time. The notes, the sruthi, and the thaalam all these never seemed to fall in place. We had our teacher always shouting at us asking us to sing it right. We had impositions of singing the same thing again and again.
My sister quit. She could take it no longer. I continued with the classes. I took long breaks in the middle. I joined the classes again. Later I switched to another teacher. I had slowly started developing interest. When I came to think of it, I discovered what the reason was.
Initially, before I did my junior exam, I just knew that I had to learn something so that I can sing it in the exam. It was like any other school subject. But after I joined the classes of a reputed teacher, I realized music was something I never knew about. There was a lot of concept behind singing. If only someone sat down to explain things to me, I would have gained interest very early in my life with music. I would have really fared very well. Today people tell me that I sing well, although, it is only me, who knows my faults. I can still only sing what I am taught. It is very difficult to listen to something and sing it the same way. I go out of tune, out of pitch etc.
But still I love music now. The reason being there is a lot about it.
I felt that there could be many people like me (atleast that’s what I think). If that is true, I would like to put forth all the research that I do in the form of blogs. Anyone who is interested can benefit from it. That is the reason for my entering into this world of carnatic blogs.
vidhya says:
No shishya can ever give a Guru Dakshina bigger than this. You havent mentioned our teacher’s name anywhere!! and thats the most we can do to keep up her reputation
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^^^ hehehe hahahaha ^^^
Archana says:
Dear Vidhya,
I typically share the same childhood . We sisters went through the same experiences. I was so thrilled to learn that our life patterns matched so typically without a change in comma and fullstop
I would like to stay in touch with you.
Best wishes in your musical pursuit.
Luv and regds,
Archana