It s been 4 years since I played my violin. I still remember the last concert I performed wen I was in higher secondary. Y didn't I continue ? well,I've no answers.
After a long break, I took my violin once again. No surprise, I lost my fingering, speed and bowing. Indeed it is very difficult to come back and painful too. I am still on it. What is goin on here ? This blog looks like a damn autobiography.!!
The Blog title says it all. Hamsadhwani is my all time favorite raaga. It is completely packed with joy, energy, beauty and what not ? I am not gonna upload any carnatic songs as most people out here are sick of it. I jus wanted to get started with an easy song based on hamsadhwani. In the end, I picked up a blinder. "vellai pookkal" by the Academy award winner AR Rahman.
This tamil song won a national award for its beautiful composition. Hmm.. Wot s so special about this song ? It is based on hamsadhwani but contains a lot of "anya swaras"(notes outside the raaga definition) like a note between D and E flat, F sharp and A which sweetened the song, making it really hard for me to identify the notes at some parts of the song.
Anyways , its my first attempt after a long time and my song cover has got a lot of glitches. In addition, the mixing is not proper and karaoke is bad. I've not done justice to the original composition. Hope you guys will pardon me.
See ya guys soon with another song.
~Surya.
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Thanks Susam for directing me here!
ReplyDeleteThis was a nice piece of music, waiting for more..
Nice performance. :-) I enjoyed it. This is going to my iTunes playlist at office along with the original A. R. Rahman's.
ReplyDeleteThe note on 'anya swaras' is interesting. AFAIK, ragaa are similar to musical scales. So, some notes from the 12 notes of chromatic scale would be allowed in a certain raga and others wouldn't be allowed. However, a note between D and Eb does not even seem to belong to the chromatic scale. So, what exactly is 'anya swara'? A note outside the notes allowed by the raga which may or may not include a note not belonging to the chromatic scale? Or is it a note strictly not belonging to the chromatic scale?
I can hear some vocal at 01:15. Is it the part of the vocal that Audacity failed to remove when you inverted the stereo tracks?
Thanks guys.
ReplyDelete@susam : I don't know much about western , but in carnatic. We have 7 notes. out of which 2 notes are constants. we call it shadjamam 'C' and panjamam 'G'.
Madhyamam has two variations suddha madhyamam 'F' and prathi madhyamam 'F#'
Remaining 4 have 3 variations each.
For Eg. In keyboard Eb note represents two different swaras in violin for which you need to place your fingers in two different places. The difference is very very minor but , Those minor things give life to a song.
naan romba feel panni kettan da..
ReplyDeletereally great da..
would love to get more like this from u .
nice one machi ...
ReplyDeleteIt's too good. It's nice to hear that you have started playing violin again. Continue uploading more songsda Surya. Naanum violin-a thodalamannu thonudhuda Surya.
ReplyDeleteMy good wishes. Waiting for your next song soon. Ask Adithya to upload some vocal. Myself and Nana enjoyed very much.
Raji chiththi
Thnk ya chithi..
ReplyDeletehai surya ,
ReplyDeletethis is malachithi ;u hav don a nice work.verygood.i and kani heard ur song.later every 1 heard.u hav brought lorels to ur violin.good job
love
malachithi
Very nice! What mic and sound card do you use?
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@Balu : I recorded it thro my PC mic :p
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