RAGAS

Now we are moving to the thing that really matters in the carnatic music that is ragas. The ragas in the carnatic genre are numerous but there are some familiar and easy to learn ragas which i'll write down.

KALYANI
sa ri(ri2) gu(ga3) mi(ma2) pa dhi(dha2) nu(ni3) Sa

THODI
sa ra(ri1) gi(ga2) ma(ma1) pa dha(dha1) ni(ni2) Sa

KARAKARAPRIYA
sa ri(ri2) gi(ga2) ma(ma1) pa dhi(dha2) ni(ni2) Sa

Mayamala Gowla (or) Chandrakouns
sa ra(ri1) gu(ga3) ma(ma1) pa dha(dha1) nu(ni3) Sa

Subha Panthuvarali
sa ra(ri1) gi(ga2) mi(ma2) pa dha(dha1) nu(ni3) Sa

and these are called
sampoorna melakartha ragas which have all seven notes with them.
And there are also these janya ragas which are derivants of those melakartha


Siva Ranjani
sa ri(ri2) gi(ga2) pa dhi(dha2) Sa

Mohanam
sa ri(ri2) gu(ga3) pa dhi(dha2) Sa

Boopalam
sa ra(ri1) gu(ga3) pa dha(dha1) Sa

there are some other ragas also ,and above all these notes of ragas and things there are special things related to each raga as its rasa(mood it creates) and special notes in it and kirtis and compositions from them in the film industry we'll see them in the next posts.

Basics Of carnatic Music Continued..........

TALA
        As i've already told you tala being the most prominent platform of music it has seven Groups as follows(Courtesy Wikipedia). If you are really not getting tala it is just the beat the singers maintain by flipping their hands up and down

• Dhruva tala
• Matya tala
• Rupaka tala
• Jhampa tala
• Triputa tala
• Ata tala
• Eka tala

These seven groups are however a critical combinaton of three angas and they are

• Laghu
• Dhrtam
• Anudhrtam

Anudhrtan is a single beat.
Dhrtam is combination of two beats in a cycle.
Laghu is combination of 3, 4, 5,etc beats in a cycle
Tala is something that has to be maintained through experience so just now don't get fuzzy about this.

basics of Carnatic Music

The carnatic music; possibly one of the oldest music gender that is in complete. we wont be going into its history but how does it percepts the music.

As for as carnatic music is concerned there are some keywords  you are expected to be familiar with
they are
pitch

sruti
swara

raga
tala
kirti

PITCH
Pitch is a characteristics of a sound and  as far as science is concerned it is the frequency of the sound. But more commonly we can say that its the shrillness or the bass-full roughness of a sound. Commonly women have shrill voice (high pitched) and men have rough voice (low pitched).
SRUTI
               Sruti is nothing but the scale of pitch in which you tend to start the music whether in high or low.In singing it may differ according to the nature of singers vocal.
                But in the view of a musician one can make any scale as sruti as it is the work of the instrument.
                But it is advisable to maintain a middle range sruti for making it pleasant.
                Of course there are some exception and it should be made opt according to the situation
SWARA
               Now that we are moving to the swaras one should know the basic swaras in the carnatic music

and they may seems to be confusing but don't worry about it right now just use the simpler form given as short name for now.they are(courtesy wikipedia)

 You may be thinking "Guys i heard it was only seven swaras what the hell these twelve doing here!!!!"

Relax these twelve are the classified in that seven swara pattern.
they are
Shadja(Sa)
Rishaba(Ri)
Gandhara(Ga)
Madhyama(Ma)
Panchama(Pa)
Dhaivatha(Da)
Nishadha(Ni)
Now thats seven isn't it?
The combination of these seven notes with their variations (as either sudha or Satharna or chathusruthi or etc...) is what forms a raga.

Now that we know pitch, scale, swara and raga. The next thing is the Tala.

Tala is the thing that makes the music as it happens or to say in a simpler way raga is the travel we are making on the paths of the tala.
A good work of music should always go on the stream of the beat or the magic will be lost.
as for as the tala concerned there are several variations in it which we will see in the next post.

Whats this blog is about?

MUSIC
Yes thats the word
thats the magic
thats the thing what makes your life spirited
Thats what this blog is all about..........

If you stick to this blog it'll let you know how to observe music the way a musician should........

Because music can not be learned it should be observed.