Yani – New music in my life…full of passion

Today’s project management class taught me something really enjoable….Yani’s music…
seems strange!!!…but its true…
I love to see these kind of performances where the music is good….everyone is highlighted ….and there is so much of energy and passion filled when they play the music….it is simply amazing…
The music played with passion automatically is pleasing and sounds great…..I [...]



Valli kanavan – Shenjurutti

Amma was mentioning this song today… I have never heard it before. It seems she heard it on TV and she wants me to learn it. So as usual, as the first step I looked into the internet for details. I was surprised to find immediate details.
Now I am excited to learn it… 
Song: Valli kanavan
Raagam: [...]



Play songs on keyboard

My sister wanted to play a lot of songs on the keyboard and kept asking me for the notes of songs. unfortunately… I am not a great mucisian…(no where even close to the word musician…forget about being great)…and so I could not decipher the notes when a song was sung.
Google always comes to my rescue:)… [...]



Indian musical instruments

We have so many musical instruments in India. So all of us know about all instruments? I don’t know most of them. So it is of course not right on my part to describe these instruments in my blog:)
But I did find interesting information on http://sify.com/carnaticmusic/fullstory.php?id=13167931&page=1 . it is worth reading.
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Learning music without a teacher

If anyone wants to start learning music really thoroughly….first the basics and theory is important…. this can be learnt very well from http://www.khazana.com/et/music/gentle1.asp?mscssid=5A1V2QVKH13D9JA8R5BUMHQH8759DGG9
I founf the information amazing. the lessons are divided into parts. but one must be passionate to have the patience to go through so much info. Its a lot….but it is worth knowing [...]



Wonder kid in south India

We have heard of a lot of wonder kids….how they have special abilities…
I myself have spoken about one such Romanian kid’s singing in http://www.allyouwannaknow.net/musicandme/2008/11/18/ghita/
I found one such on the internet. There is this small girl…..who is learning carnatic music…and she has this  incredible knowledge…or power….orjust listening capacity…whatever pone may call it….she can identify the raagam [...]



Learn carnatic music online

I found this website
http://www.sadhanaschoolofarts.com/Material/Samples/
 here you have samples of music pieces that can be downloaded. These are basics of music and so one can learn carnatic music basics online….try it…
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Music theory on the internet

As I browse through the internet for different information, I stumble across a lot of websites. Not sure how many of them people know about. Just thought I shall mention a few of them here..
All these give us some insight about carnatic music
 http://www.chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/carnatic_sangeet.html
http://www.karnatik.com/
http://www.indianmelody.com/carnaticintro.htm
 Wikipedia about basic terms in carnatic music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnatic_music#.C5.9Aruti
 different types of songs
http://www.carnatica.net/sangeet/sahityanubhava2.htm
 some comparisons between the [...]



Neeraval & Thanam

Neeraval is another  kind of improvisation in carnatic music. Here, the singer sings one line of the song repeatedly with different notes…of course maintaining the raagam, the rhythm…
 Thanam is usually sung as part of the central ‘ragam-tanam-pallavi’ piece. Thanam has no thalam as such but has a distinct rhythm. The music is usually in the [...]



Alaapanai and kalpana swaram

Aalapanai and kalpana swaram are 2 of the aspects of carnatic music where the musician shows his creativity and level of training in a particular raagam. 
Aalapanai comes normally in the beginning of a song. Here the musician improvises gradually from a lower note in the raagam and goes ahead setting a mood and stage for [...]