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September 11th, 2006

11:07 am - Vandhanamu.. My friends (Sriram, Kavitha, Shashi, Partha and Sowmya) gifted me a Ahuja Microphone when i left to Bangalore from Hyd. Lazy me took so many months to lay my hands on it. And here is the first test song i recorded with it. I had my shruti on and it was close to the microphone, but dont know why only my voice got recorded. And i used Windows Sound recorder which was a big pain as i had to keep looking for the 1 minute end-of-recording to again press the record button while i sang. But thankfully, the breaks are not very obvious. I should say, it was a big test to my concentration while singing. I tried recording it online through evoca, but dont know why i found my voice to be overlapping in a few places. :( It would be great if you guys can give me recording tips, also abt the software which you use for continuous recording. Also your honest feedback about this song are vandhanam. :) And thanks a lot to my dearest friends who gifted this to me! So thoughtful of them to have given me the best gift i have ever received! Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: endharo - KVN Tags: carnatic, evoca, recording

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June 21st, 2006

12:42 pm - My dream guru I cant ask for more! I love Wednesday and Saturday mornings when i have to get up early, go for my music classes before going to my boring office :) She listens to me patiently and corrects me when i go wrong. And, after i learn a song in the class, i dont have to go back and listen to the recordings of my class to get it right, as she would have taught me in such a way that i wont forget. Ok, she is Smt.Rajalakshmi. She is one of the beloved disciples of Dr.S.Ramanathan and is 75 years old. But her voice is awesome even @ 75. The songs i have learnt from her in the past 7 weeks are: 1. Varana Mukhava - Hamsadhwani - Koteeswara Iyer 2. Swaminatha pari palayasumam - Nattai - Dikshithar 3. Vandhanamu - Sahana - Thyagaraja 4. Ramanukke mannan - Hindolam (Rama nataka Keerthanai)-Arunachala kaviraayar 5. BragadAmba - Sankarabharanam - Ponnaiah pillai 6. Durusuga - sAveri - Shyama Shasthrigal 7. Mamava Madhava - Neelambari - Narayana theerthar Of these, BragadAmba is a very rare number it seems. It has the entire essence of Sankarabharanam. (Not the right way of framing the sentence, i know :). am too excited to think about that now ) "Ramanukke mannan mudi tharithaale" is a Padam sung by Kaikeyi to Mantharai(kooni) and it shows the ecstatic feelings of Kaikeyi when Sri Rama is to be anointed as the prince. And what more? She taught me an Abirami andhadhi to sing as a Virutham before Durusuga. Before she starts a new song, she asks me what Raagam/song i want to learn. Too good, no? She tells me a lot of tit-bits, stories about the times when she used to learn from her gurus. Just too inspiring they are! She was once telling me how Papanaasam Sivan used to teach. It seems he used to encourage the kids to sing without any fear by saying "Dont get scared to sing before me thinking that i know so much in music. I just dont know anything. Infact no one around you knows anything". She tells me the same words and tries to get me sing with lots of confidence. Well, whatever i have written till now is just too less of whatever i wanted to write. But i just wanted to write this blog so badly today. :) And before i post it, let me touch wood.. :) Current Mood: content Current Music: Durusuga - Dr.Ramanathan Tags: carnatic, music class

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