I have changed many music teachers due to many reasons. My latest music teacher taught me this song as the first one when I joined her classes.
This song is composed in the mayamalagowla raagam. This ragam is one of the basic ragas. Early lessons (sarali varisai, etc.) are set in this rAga, according to a [...]
This song was something that I heard accidentally for the first time. I was trying to search for some songs by Priya sisters and I stumbled onto this. I loved it. Was trying to learn it from the time I heard it. Somehow I never got to learn it. Now finally I am in the [...]
This is a beautiful song in praise of the Goddess Kamakshi. I also love it because of other reasons.
This was a song that I learnt in a jiffy. It so happened that my music teacher’s husband (who is a singer himself) was free one of the days when I went for the class. So he [...]
I cannot believe that i have not yet written a post on this song. All time favourite……has been in my mind since I was a kid…..
The ragam is also one that I love. It is the first ragam in which I learnt aalapanai…
I also learnt this song from 2 of my teachers….with a lot of [...]
I loved this song. It has a very nice base sound….lovely song
Also a song that I ind of learnt at one shot …so has a special place in my own hall of fame
I have blogged before about this ragam in the song Bramham okkate..Tis raagam is supposed to be a morning raagam…
now to the [...]
This is a raagam that I have already described in my post on Sri guruguha http://allyouwannaknow.net/musicandme/2009/05/03/shri-guruguha-shuddha-saveri/
Not a very famous song for me…..struggled to learn it…had a number of breaks when I was learning this song….So not really fond of it
Song: Janani paahi
Raagam: Shuddha Saveri
Talam: Thriputa
Parent raagam: Dheera shankarabharanam (29th melakartha)
Aa: S R2 M1 [...]
Another thyagaraja krithi. A very new ragam that I learnt.
Song: Nannu kanna thalli
Ragam: Sindhu Kaanada (also known as kesari sindhu kaanada)
Talam: DeshAadhi
Aa: S R2 G3 M1 P M1 D1 P D1 S
Av: S D1 N1 D1 P M1 G2 R2 S
Parent ragam: maararanjani janya (25th melakartha)
Composer: Thyagaraja
Language: Telgu
lyrics
pallavi
nannu kanna talli nA bhAgyamA nArAyaNi dharmAmbikE
anupallavi
kanakAngi ramApati [...]
Reethigowla is a very melodius ragam…..but I was not very fond of this song when I learnt it. Why was that??!!because I took time to pick it up …. so dint like it
Now I realize it is a really nice song.
I found a lot of lyrics to this song…. I have learnt only [...]
One of the first ragams that we learn when we start with varnams is Mohanam. a simple ragam…but beautiful one. This song is also a beautiful composition of Muthuswamy Dikshitar in Mohanam.
This is the last song I learnt from Mami…..one of my greatest gurus…the lady who actually taught me that what i was doing initially [...]
This is a beautiful song dedicated to abhirami. It is melodious…but peppy at the same time. I loved the chittaswaram that I learnt.
I learnt this as the Kamalamanohari ragam…..but I see that some of them say it is manohari ragam….
according to Karnatik.com these are two different ragams….derived from 2 different ragams.
I will put down what [...]