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 right [...]
A beginner starts with Sarali, Janti, and Alankara; at the stage the student gets a fair mastery of the seven notes and a voice flexibility to sing the basic notes; ascending, descending, doublets, different speeds. These are much like the alphabets we learn in kinder garden. Geetam is the simplest [...]
What is music? Is it the sound between the beats or the silence? It is a combination and what makes anything musical is its adherence to a rhythm. It is like the heart beat of the human being. Rhythm represents nothing but time which is measured in terms of beats. [...]
Swarasthana basic gives a firsthand experience of Swara (Note), Raga (musical scale), Tala (Rhythm). Swarasthana Advanced takes you down further: you’re convinced that Carnatic music suits you and wish to know more than alphabets. We introduce 16 Swaras (Notes), 72 Melakartas, Gamakas and much more on where you need to [...]
Theories in Karnatic Music for Intermediate level are an extension of the basic course. It is standalone course. Or it is a stepped up version for any student who opted for the basic course. The rudiments of Carnatic style is covered to a greater depth. The Swaravalis, Jhantis, Alankaras now [...]
If you are a music connoisseur or just a layman wanting to know the intricacies of Karnatic music – its grammar, basic notes, scales, Raga (musical scale) and famous composers and their compositions this is the course for you. We at eAmbalam have designed a course combining both the textbook [...]
Being born to a tradition and not knowing its grammar can get petty embarrassing. You attend a concert or watch TV on Marghazi Utsavam. You watch some rasikas transported to heaven – they know the beat, they tune it to the bhava (emotion) of the singer, and know the composers [...]
This man never ceases to amaze me. At 83, he walks into my concert this December 2012 assisted by his son, sits in the first row and through the entire concert. He never leaves before telling what he felt about the concert. On some occasions he has written spontaneous poetry, [...]
If you are one of the “oldies” who love to say that music nowadays is continuously plumbing the depth and often going into the realms of noise, you will understand when I say “those were the days”. As an afficinado of Carnatic music, a decade or two back was the [...]
