I wanted to post this article in March itself (to keep up my personal target of at least one post a month).. Because actually this article was written in March and hence technically I still met my target.. Posting it on April 1st is not to play a poor fools day joke! But, because it is part My latest article in Solvanam. So I decided to mention it here only after that.
The article is in Tamil. (It always feels nice to write in Tamil..) But non-Tamil readers please excuse me.. I will try to update this post with an English translation as soon as I can..
Basically I attempted playing the song in question to highlight the beauty of silence in this song. Though I did elaborate about it in the article, the best way to connect to my thoughts is through the video I guess.. Where ever there is silence in the original song, I tried to play it a bit spontaneous and not necessarily always sticking to the timing .. I thought the inherent feel of the song is best felt that way. Else I just played the melody with a mix of regular arpeggios and original bass track occasionally.
As always, your opinion matter to me the most. So Good/Bad or Ugly I am curious to know what you think of it. I also notated the sheet music for the song, in case you are interested. And of course corrections are welcome !
Enjoy the Sindhu Bhairavi in D Minor..
With Love
Vicky
(Headphones recommended)
its Excelent boss..
ReplyDeleteDear Vicky,
ReplyDeleteThat was a great video of yours in youtube and a very nice and interesting article written in tamil in Solvaanam site.
Amazing, I guess you need to probably increase the frequency of your writing from once in a month to say once in a Fortnight. It is a Pleasure to read your articles and great enlightenment.
Kudos!
Thanks
Naggy
Dear vicky,
ReplyDeleteas usual - Inniki unga blog ku varalai.
post panni irukeenga...
inum padikalai... kaekalai..
but - oru sandhoshamana reply ... tats all..
With Love,
Usha Sankar.
@ Aravindan:
ReplyDeleteThanks boss ! :-)
@ Naggy:
Thanks a lot.. Yes Naggy.. I also would really like to write more.. But honestly it requires so much time and energy that at this moment I am not able to contribute more.. Of course laziness is the prime contributor for taking away the time.. not job, family etc :-P. Will surely try to up the ante..
@ Usha:
Thanks a lot for your continuous patronage.. full-a padichittu kettuttu sollunga..
@ Suresh:
Its always a pleasure to look forward to your comment Suresh :-) because its usually objective and specific.. sort that helps me to connect more with the readers.. What you said about Thyagaraja and Shree BMK is absolutely true.. interesting these stalwarts are also those who inspire Raaja.. Not a co-incidence isn't !
With Love
Vicky
Thanks Vicky for the kind words. I personally feel that the least people like me can do is to provide our feedback to bloggers like you who put in a lot of effort to come up with high quality posts. This helps readers like me understand some of the nuances better and I am grateful for that.
ReplyDeleteYou have an amazing musical knowledge combined with good writing skills. I can only admire!!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, if you watch IR's songs or BGMs he has always used silence as one of the key aspects. Atleast he is the only one who notably started the trend of using silence in songs and BGMs which i remember. Only after him other MDs have inherited it. Thanks for bringing this part of IRs music in to a larger novices like myself.
Is there a good site which teaches a novice on how to add chords to melody notes in a keyboard. Your musicsheet was really good as we dont get to see such things for tamil songs. But how does one get a knowledge on chords. If there is some good sites do let me know.
Balaji
@ Suresh:
ReplyDeleteThanks once again for the encouragement.. :-)
@ Rangabalaji:
Sorry for a late reply.. Didn't remember this query was still open...
"But how does one get a knowledge on chords??" - Well, formal education is the first and foremost way to go about.. I do not know any sites personally.. But I can tell you what I know some (very very) basic principles of setting chords:
For Major scale songs:
1. For any given Root major chord, the major chord of its 4th and 5th notes are called sub - chords and by default it will fit into the melody of the root.. i.e., if C major is the shruti of the song, then F and G are its natural allies. So with just 3 chords (i.e., C,F and G) you can put up a decent show.
2. For a minor chord, and its two descending full notes' major are the strongest sub chords
i.e., if its C minor then A# major and G# major or good chord to use.
3. For any major, its relative minor (and vice-versa) can give a bright color in the arrangement.
Of course there are much more nuanced details in this topic.. Chord setting for a song is a big area but primarily it goes about imagination..
But for a start, you can chew around these topics and come back for more tips once you are read. We can discuss more when you are ready..
With Love
Vicky
Thanks vicky for the start. I will revert with more queries once i have a handle on this.
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vicky...very nice playing...i'm yet to read the article... I guess if you play the left hand chords puching middle key first, then the last key and then going back to the first key (Eg: F, A & then D in Dminor) would sound great. I guess the bass notes in the song follow this pattern..am not an expert in this so do pardon me if it is incorrect...i'm yet to read the tamil article...nevertheless...its a joy to read ur articles...keep it going vicky
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@ Dina:
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for the suggestion Dina.. What you say is true. If you see, I am already doing it for: "Kizhigal Mutham tharudha".. In fact I used to play bass guitar for this song in the later years and I know the exact bass notes of this song, which is not exactly 2-3-1, but close to that most of the times than not. Since I wanted to give a fuller feel through out I kept this arrangement. I will try to record one more time with 2-3-1 arpeggio and share it with you.
With Love
Vicky
Thanks for your reply Vicky. Wud love to c the other style of playing. wud be even more great if you play the bass notes alone. :)
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