Raaga MusicCorner: Understanding the basics



Oh wow,how beautiful when you listen to your favorite playlist that you used to listen in your college days and the rest of good old days(not too old though,but somehow missing the time I used to enjoy this music on the way to office).Currently playing Laali Laali anu ragam saaguthunte ...♬♬♬ .I really want to take this blog seriously which I have not been able to.Though I don't post here regularly :( ,ooph,thoughts about this blog,more and more ideas on research and implementation have been continuously running in my mind all the time.
We just get so busy in our lives.I don't know why there are many and many things running in my mind all the time,particularly these days.My sister says :D you shouldn't allow situations deal you,you should deal the situations.Every one is different and no one understands the other completely and it is because of the environment each of us are bought up.But I somehow feel me and my sister are always confident about what we believe and the way we lead our life.So let the bad circumstances try hitting me,its okay,believe in yourself ,let the worst come,yes why not,its life and they do come.I am here,ready all the time not to face it but fight it saying,I know what I am doing and I believe in life and what HE has blessed me with :)./nobigdeal .Too much of outburst,but I promise I will surely update the notes from today on a REGULAR BASIS.Anyhow :D I know I know,I should talk subject now :P.Sri Ganandha is the first geetham.

Let us talk about our first geetham,on Ganapathi,it is in malahari ragam.Very familiar geetham to all , lambodara lakumikara,ambasutha amaravinutha.I love to sing this any number of times in a day.








Ragam - Malahari

Talam - Rupaka

Arohanam : S R1 M1 P D1 S
Avarohanam: S D1 P M1 G2 R1 S









(NOTE : Above is first charanam audio,charanam 2 & 3 must be sung similarly)




Charanam1:  
M P | D S S R || R S | D P M P ||
Sree – | Ga na na tha || sin dhu | – ra var na ||

R M | P D M P || D P | M G R S ||
ka ru | Na sa ga ra || ka ri | va dha – na ||

S , | R M G R || S R | G R S , ||
lam – | bo dha ra || la ku | mi ka ra – ||

R M | P D M P || D P | M G R S ||
am – | ba – su tha || a ma | ra vi nu tha ||

S , | R M G R || S R | G R S , ||
Lam – | bo – dha ra || la ku | mi ka ra – ||



Charanam2:

M P | D S S R || R S | D P M P ||
Sid dha | cha – ra na || ga na | se – vi tha ||

R M | P D M P || D P | M G R S ||
Sid dhi | vi na ya ka || the – | na mo na mo ||
(Lam)


Charanam3:

M P | D S S R || R S | D P M P ||
Sa ka | la vi dya – || – dhi | pu – ji tha ||

R M | P D M P || D P | M G R S ||
Sa – | rvo – ttha ma || the – | na mo na mo ||

Basics are always the same for any form of music,Below are the foundation for indian music especially carnatic and hindustani.For more understanding of Carnatic music Basics, refer,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnatic_music

Sruthi

Laya

Swara

Sruthi is the sound produced ; the base with which other notes can be sung with this sruthi as reference.

Laya is the rhythm by which the sound of music is systematically uttered.

Swara or Swaram tells us the way of notes flow.

Now,how to start understanding this base line to know my Sruthi?

Base is 'Shadjamam'.On this base, we should be able to reach the flow of other notes.In other words,Mathematically, Consider your Shadjamam note as '0' on a scale of positive negative numbers. Count of any number is based from or to '0'.

In the same way Shadjamam acts as base sound and any notes higher or lower from,to the base sound flows.

Chosing your Sruthi is nothing but Chosing that sound on which you can comfortably reach all notes.

Everything in the universe has a source.And Music is one of many arts.We are lucky enough to be a human to be able to experience this beauty called 'art'.

There are different kinds of Music.Every form has its own precedence in beauty with other. Carnatic Music itself is taught and understood differently in different regions .

But for understanding any form of music,it is a must to know the basics. True that every guru tells you a new thing and that is because , music forms was read deeply in the ancient time by maha pandits which we are inheriting from ancestors and gurus generation after generation and enhancing depending on every one's interest and understanding of music.

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Sri Gananadha

Charanam1:

Charanam2:

Charanam3:

Carnatic Music Basics

Sruthi

Laya

Swara

Sruthi is the sound produced ; the base with which other notes can be sung with this sruthi as reference.

Laya is the rhythm by which the sound of music is systematically uttered.

Swara or Swaram tells us the way of notes flow.

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Pages

Sri Gananadha

Charanam1:

Charanam2:

Charanam3:

Carnatic Music Basics

Sruthi

Laya

Swara

Sruthi is the sound produced ; the base with which other notes can be sung with this sruthi as reference. Laya is the rhythm by which the sound of music is systematically uttered. Swara or Swaram tells us the way of notes flow.

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Sruthi is the sound produced ; the base with which other notes can be sung with this sruthi as reference.

Laya is the rhythm by which the sound of music is systematically uttered.

Swara or Swaram tells us the way of notes flow.