I was looking for some metronome for keeping tempo – specifically the 8 beat Adi talam. Keeping talam with foot was one solution but I haven’t yet done enough practice of it; I wanted some external source to keep tempo. This was the most ideal solution – http://www.indianmusicalinstruments.com/mridangtalam.htm. But I didn’t want to shell...
Carnatic
Dr. S Ramanathan
Okay, I don’t want this to be a music blog exactly. But somehow I can’t restrict myself from writing this article. Dr S Ramanathan(DSR) was perhaps one of the most underrated musicians of Carnatic music. Yeah yeah.. you would have listened to the short and sweet pacy kalpana swaras of GNB or the genius...
Vintage Beauty
The other day when I was in Chennai, my sister and I were discussing about music in general and Desh raga in particular. That was because I had listened to her doing a good alapana of the raga sometime before. Instantly I loved it – who wouldn’t fall for Desh?That discussion led to a...
‘M’power
What’s your favourite letter? Probably no one would have asked you such a question. Even I didn’t think of it until a week back. But somehow this crept up in my mind and pondering over that question for a while, I focused my thoughts on the letter ‘M’. On the first sight it might...
Treat your ears
Have you ever wanted to listen to famous kirthanais of Tyagaraja rendered by stalwarts like Madurai Mani Iyer, Maharajapuram Santhanam, Mandolin Srinivas etc.?Visit:http://surasa.net/music/tyagaraja-archive/