It was 01-01-2006 morning 6.30, I got up. I was at my friend's house at kodambakkam. I was browsing through the channels, since I noticed the Ad of Guitar Prasanna's musical program (didn't remember the channel). Ended up with Raj TV. There was an instrumental program. Sax and the String instumentalist were playing good. But it was not the Prasanna's program.
7am I switched to Sun TV. There was a special Vanakkam Tamilagam. Wow!!! Prasanna's program was part of that Vanakkam Tamilagam. Prasanna played the "Grapevine" instrumental from his jazz album "Be The Change". I like that very much. Following that, the instrumental of "KanduKondaen KanduKondaen" song (AR Rahman's music) from "Kandukondaen Kandukondaen" film. It was amazing, the way he played the song in the guitar. He added bit of his own creativity and though he did not play the song as such, he sticked to the orginal mode of the song and embraced the main melody of the song. Especially, he repeated the prelude many times. It was really wonderful and great. Following that he, along with the co-instrumentalists, performed other instrumentals also which i dont know already. Every thing played in that program, was really a great work and sweet to listen in the morning. And it made me little brisk in that cold morning.
With that boosted energy, went to my friend's office at 8am and played TT. We played 5 sets each having 20 points. Oh God, I lost the 1st set :(. But thank God, I was able to come up in the rest of the sets. I got 4:1 win :) One way, the music I listened in the morning really helped me to stay energized and take up the last four sets.
I agree, that good music will keep you in good attitude. I have heared that there is Music Therapy, to treat and cure patients. Dont have much info on that now, and i'm slowly deviating from the topic. So I take my leave from this topic for now.
Wish you another year of nice musical journey.
Monday, January 02, 2006
Ads 4 my music
Here are some short clips from my compositions. If you are interested in the complete composition, you can get it from me by email. These clips could act as Ads for my compositions ;)
If the links dont work good for you, please let me know by mail or simply by your comment in this blog.
Diwali_Kaapi : I made a post "My First Kaapi" some time before. This is an instrumental (not a song with lyrics). Finished this work by diwali 2006. This is in Kaapi raga. I like this piece of music very much. This clip contains the starting portion and the climax portion of the composition.
Inimai Kalanthu : I composed this song exactly one year before. I happend to meet a lyricist who stays in London and appears often in the BBC radio there, with her tamil works. She gave me her book of poems. And I took one poem among them (about "Mother"), composed a tune, put background music, recorded it and made the mp3. Since I did not get a good singer, I sang this song. This clip contains the initial portion of the song.
I posted these two compositions in the internal blog of my company. People gave impressive feedbacks, that encouraged me to do more in the coming days. So wait for more from me!!!
If the links dont work good for you, please let me know by mail or simply by your comment in this blog.
Diwali_Kaapi : I made a post "My First Kaapi" some time before. This is an instrumental (not a song with lyrics). Finished this work by diwali 2006. This is in Kaapi raga. I like this piece of music very much. This clip contains the starting portion and the climax portion of the composition.
Inimai Kalanthu : I composed this song exactly one year before. I happend to meet a lyricist who stays in London and appears often in the BBC radio there, with her tamil works. She gave me her book of poems. And I took one poem among them (about "Mother"), composed a tune, put background music, recorded it and made the mp3. Since I did not get a good singer, I sang this song. This clip contains the initial portion of the song.
I posted these two compositions in the internal blog of my company. People gave impressive feedbacks, that encouraged me to do more in the coming days. So wait for more from me!!!
Friday, October 28, 2005
Corporate Music Competition - The Hindu coverage
Today there was short coverage of the corporate music competition, in the Hindu newspaper. Rajesh was mentioned special for his nice drumming. Anyway the wound of having missed the 1st place still there unhealed.
http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/28/stories/2005102816350200.htm
http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/28/stories/2005102816350200.htm
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Corporate Music Competition :- Oct 2005
Thanks to BigDeal, for their good intention & effort to conduct the Corp Music. There were 3 category of competitions.
1. Female solo singing 2. Male solo singing 3. Group music / light music. We participated in Group music. We prepared 4 songs (Kannan Vandhu Paadukindran from Irattai Vaal Kuruvi, Megam Kotattum from Enakul Oruvan, Vaan Megam from Mouna Raagam & Suttrum Bhoomi Suttrum from Dum Dum Dum), out of which 3 can be performed on stage.
I play lead guitar. But we had no Bass Guitarist. So I played the Bass. Because no song will become complete without Bass. I practiced the Bass for the first 3 songs and for the last song Sripathy practiced the Bass. I practiced the lead for the 4th song. That lead I love much. The day before the competition we (Rajesh, Sripathy, Sriram, Srinivasan & me) decided to play the first 3 songs only. So for me, no need to worry about carrying two guitars. Bass Guitar is enough.
I dreamt that the Bass we play should make a big difference. But what happened on stage? Once the previous team finished, we got into the stage immediately. Everybody in our team, focused on their instrument to get it tuned and ready for the start. I checked the volume of my Bass guitar. It was less than I needed. Asked Rajavel (our sound engineer/ SE) for more volume for me. Rajavel, needs to work with the BigDeal's SE and sort out the issue. Rajavel requested the BigDeal's SE for more volume for the Bass. But the volume did not turn out as I expected. Bass I played was hardly audible to me. So I requested for more volume. Then shouted for more volume. Rajavel did the same to the BigDeal's SE. No volume. Not only to me, Srinivasan's keyboard piece was cut inbetween. That should have been a punchy piece. But it was cut inbetween. I realized, Sripathy was shouting for more volume when he was playing his part in the Megam Kotattum song. Rajesh was tensed when he realized the Mick of his Drums was not set proper. Oh God. It was totally a mess, as far as we heard from the stage.
But as usual there were good number of claps at the end of our performance. And none of us ever had a chance to look at the judges during our performance. When BigDeal conducted the show for the first time, I looked at one of the judges (Karthick, a well known singer here) and observed a wow effect in his face when our music started in the first song. We got the first place in that competition. But this time, none of us did observe anything from the judges during our performance. No idea, on what the judges would have measured about our performance. Judges were Gangai Amaran, Radio Mirchi Suchithra, Mathangi, Sabesh Murali. Gangai Amaran, is a good musician. He has been in the Music industry for quite a big time (around 30 yrs). But did not have any idea on the other judges. They should be good musicians. That was the only factor that gave us some hope. Because if you are a good musician, you will acknowledge the effort that we have put in the songs that we performed. Anyway, nothing is guaranteed, if the sound system was not good.
We did not know how was our output for the audience. I personally thought we will not get any prize at all. 'cause I was not satisfied with the Bass part of our performance. Atlast, judges came on the stage to announce the winners. Infosys team was called to the stage to get their 3rd prize. Following that Gangai Amaran announced the 2nd place and called that team to the stage. The 2nd team is none other than ours (AdventNet). Oh. I couldn't believe. Anyway, deep inside, I was actually disappointed for not winning the competition. We were there at the stage with the judges. Took snaps, took our prizes & returned. 1st place went to HCL.
We our group went to "Murugan Idly Kadai" and had our dinner and returned home.
Though, getting the 2nd place lightened the situation to some extend, I personally thought there is much contribution for the winning from my side. Probably if the BASS was in the proper level, we could have done magics at our performance. Since the Bass did not find its balance in the audio, I literellay felt my self a waste on the stage. Oh God, need to avoid such performances.
Apart form this, after the competition, I could feel the areas that I need to improve in my playing. I recalled my recent reading, which goes as below.
For the world, we got the 2nd place. We need to rock with more improved stuff next time.
1. Female solo singing 2. Male solo singing 3. Group music / light music. We participated in Group music. We prepared 4 songs (Kannan Vandhu Paadukindran from Irattai Vaal Kuruvi, Megam Kotattum from Enakul Oruvan, Vaan Megam from Mouna Raagam & Suttrum Bhoomi Suttrum from Dum Dum Dum), out of which 3 can be performed on stage.
I play lead guitar. But we had no Bass Guitarist. So I played the Bass. Because no song will become complete without Bass. I practiced the Bass for the first 3 songs and for the last song Sripathy practiced the Bass. I practiced the lead for the 4th song. That lead I love much. The day before the competition we (Rajesh, Sripathy, Sriram, Srinivasan & me) decided to play the first 3 songs only. So for me, no need to worry about carrying two guitars. Bass Guitar is enough.
I dreamt that the Bass we play should make a big difference. But what happened on stage? Once the previous team finished, we got into the stage immediately. Everybody in our team, focused on their instrument to get it tuned and ready for the start. I checked the volume of my Bass guitar. It was less than I needed. Asked Rajavel (our sound engineer/ SE) for more volume for me. Rajavel, needs to work with the BigDeal's SE and sort out the issue. Rajavel requested the BigDeal's SE for more volume for the Bass. But the volume did not turn out as I expected. Bass I played was hardly audible to me. So I requested for more volume. Then shouted for more volume. Rajavel did the same to the BigDeal's SE. No volume. Not only to me, Srinivasan's keyboard piece was cut inbetween. That should have been a punchy piece. But it was cut inbetween. I realized, Sripathy was shouting for more volume when he was playing his part in the Megam Kotattum song. Rajesh was tensed when he realized the Mick of his Drums was not set proper. Oh God. It was totally a mess, as far as we heard from the stage.
But as usual there were good number of claps at the end of our performance. And none of us ever had a chance to look at the judges during our performance. When BigDeal conducted the show for the first time, I looked at one of the judges (Karthick, a well known singer here) and observed a wow effect in his face when our music started in the first song. We got the first place in that competition. But this time, none of us did observe anything from the judges during our performance. No idea, on what the judges would have measured about our performance. Judges were Gangai Amaran, Radio Mirchi Suchithra, Mathangi, Sabesh Murali. Gangai Amaran, is a good musician. He has been in the Music industry for quite a big time (around 30 yrs). But did not have any idea on the other judges. They should be good musicians. That was the only factor that gave us some hope. Because if you are a good musician, you will acknowledge the effort that we have put in the songs that we performed. Anyway, nothing is guaranteed, if the sound system was not good.
We did not know how was our output for the audience. I personally thought we will not get any prize at all. 'cause I was not satisfied with the Bass part of our performance. Atlast, judges came on the stage to announce the winners. Infosys team was called to the stage to get their 3rd prize. Following that Gangai Amaran announced the 2nd place and called that team to the stage. The 2nd team is none other than ours (AdventNet). Oh. I couldn't believe. Anyway, deep inside, I was actually disappointed for not winning the competition. We were there at the stage with the judges. Took snaps, took our prizes & returned. 1st place went to HCL.
We our group went to "Murugan Idly Kadai" and had our dinner and returned home.
Though, getting the 2nd place lightened the situation to some extend, I personally thought there is much contribution for the winning from my side. Probably if the BASS was in the proper level, we could have done magics at our performance. Since the Bass did not find its balance in the audio, I literellay felt my self a waste on the stage. Oh God, need to avoid such performances.
Apart form this, after the competition, I could feel the areas that I need to improve in my playing. I recalled my recent reading, which goes as below.
Fritz Kreisler, the great violinist, was once asked, "How do you play so well? Are you lucky?" He replied, "It is practice. If I don't practice for a month, the audience can tell the difference. If I don't practice for a week, my wife can tell the difference. If I don't practice for a day, I can tell the difference."I wish to practice hard, daily.
For the world, we got the 2nd place. We need to rock with more improved stuff next time.
Friday, September 16, 2005
My First Kaapi
Was working on a music composition in Kapi (kapi : the raga i know better and love most), snice August 15, 2005. Just last week, finished first part of it (nearly a month!!!).
Initially thought this composition should be a Guitar solo accompanied by gadam (an indian classical percussion instrument). But finally it turned to be a western flavour in Kapi (with piano, flute, a jazz percussion kit, lead & bass guitar etc). Need to do finish this work with some chord changes and violin scores. Asked feed back from the friends circle. Did not get enough feed back, as I expected. Ok. Let me finish it completely and get back. Have some more musical ideas in my mind, need to start working on them once I finish this.
Initially thought this composition should be a Guitar solo accompanied by gadam (an indian classical percussion instrument). But finally it turned to be a western flavour in Kapi (with piano, flute, a jazz percussion kit, lead & bass guitar etc). Need to do finish this work with some chord changes and violin scores. Asked feed back from the friends circle. Did not get enough feed back, as I expected. Ok. Let me finish it completely and get back. Have some more musical ideas in my mind, need to start working on them once I finish this.
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