Posted by Usha Balasubramaniam in Music, Online Courses
on Jul 26th, 2013 | 0 comments
Swarajathis are similar to Jathiswaras (SwaraPallavi) but with a critical difference: Swarajathi includes the Sahitya (lyrics) that a Jathiswara does not. These are learnt after learning Geethas and before Varnams. These are scholarly compositions and their Dhathu has the Raga Bhava.
So this gives
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Posted by Usha Balasubramaniam in Music, Online Courses
on Jul 26th, 2013 | 0 comments
Jathiswaras, also called Swara Pallavis are more sophisticated than Geethams. They are compositions in AbhyaasaGaana where students get to sing for the first time phrases where more than one swara are sung to a beat, or example two and four. These compositions help the students in improving their knowledge
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Posted by Usha Balasubramaniam in Music, Online Courses
on Jul 17th, 2013 | 0 comments
The strength of a building depends on how strong the foundation is. Any learning starts from alphabets, progresses to simple words, before common sentences are introduced. Didn’t all of us not learn basic colours, or animals or vegetables at school where colourful charts started to make sense? So
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Posted by Usha Balasubramaniam in Music, Online Courses
on Jul 17th, 2013 | 0 comments
Some voices simply spark the divine in us. Like MS? Yesudas? Muhammad Rafi? Adele?
There is a quality about a voice that haunts us, remember Lata Mangeshkar in that “Tera Saaya, Mera Saaya”. Every great performing singer had the basic voice ingredient; pitch, amplitude, flexibility, voice control,
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Posted by Usha Balasubramaniam in Music, Online Courses
on Jul 17th, 2013 | 0 comments
What comes to mind when you hear the voice of MS? Yesudas? Muhammad Rafi? Adele?
These artists were blessed with a voice, heavenly and everything right about it: the pitch, amplitude, flexibility, voice control, bright, breezy, resonance and more. Even if an individual is blessed by nature with the
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