AMS Easy Methods 2007 CD - Teaching and Learning Methods

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msakella
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Only by the grace of the Almighty today I could upload 120 Videos to ‘youtube.com/user/msakella’ under the playlist “AMS-Vocal exercises with Metronome by Shankara Aditya’ which are very highly useful to the aspirants learning Vocal. They are available @ 15 videos, as furnished hereunder, sung in each of the 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110 and 120 bpm (beats-per-minute) of the Metronome. amsharma

01-2-jantas-1st swara
02-2-jantas-2nd swara
03-2-jantas-3rd swara
04-1-janta-1st swara
05-1-janta-2nd swara
06-1-janta-3rd swara
07-eka-alankara
08-rupaka-alankara
09-mathya-alankara
10-dhruva-alankara
11-triputa-alankara
12-sarigari rigamaga
13-sanidani nidapada
14-sari sarigari sarigamagari
15-sani sanidani sanidapadani

msakella
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Under the main thread, General Discussions, under the sub-thread, Swaeroes of Adavimallela excelling in music with AMS EASY METHODS, in the post No.16, in the video under the link https://youtu.be/05JVPoP2g8k two under privileged kids, having been initiated by their efficient, honest and reliable music-teacher, Dr. Prasanna, amazingly sang intricate Jati-muktayis starting from 3 to 10-units, both in Chaturashra and Trisra-gatis. Only 3 months back they have started learning music and presently they are under the process of learning 5 Gitas and only one Swarapallavi to proceed further in learning 9 select Varnas but they are able to sing even these intricate mathematical exercises. I shall be very happy if any music-teacher on the globe does the same and post the respective link of the video of the aspirants in this column.

In the present system of teaching music while a number of items only are taught without any purpose by the teacher himself/herself singing or playing and asking the aspirant follow by singing or playing, in this novel system of learning music, the aspirant is initiated to learn any item with a specific purpose working on his/her own independently with the help of the keyboard, metronome and notated pdf files supplied by the teacher even on the first day of learning music. amsharma

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Any evolution takes its own pace and, in the same manner, the present evolution in the methods of learning our music started in 2001 when I wrote Sangita Swararaga Sudha bringing out some easy methods in learning Swarakalpana and Ragalapana very quickly and efficiently and supplied along with an mp3 CD. From then onwards, the vigorous research on these methods has been continuing and, in this process, I have been learning many such easy methods very regularly. In turn, by implementing these easy methods many of the aspirants are learning music on their own very quickly and efficiently hardly within a couple of years only. In this process I had to properly modify and bring out my book, AMS Easy Methods-2007 along with a DVD in which several audio and video files are included.

In this process I had to re-organise the 57 videos pertaining to the Special-laya-exercises in a disciplined manner. This modified list is furnished hereunder. As these videos are already kept in ‘youtube.com/user/msakella’, while re-organising them I had to shorten their titles to abide by their rules. These names are also funished hereunder in the 2nd list for the benefit of the interested aspirants. amsharma

Special-laya-exercises (57):
01.SLE-01 (a)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands - Trisra-jati-groups - 3 kinds
02.SLE-01 (b)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands - Khanda-jati-groups - 3 kinds
03.SLE-01 (c)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands - Mishra-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
04 SE-01-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands - 3, 5 & 7 Jati-groups - 3 kinds
05.SLE-02 (a)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with right hand only - Trisra-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
06.SLE-02 (b)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with right hand only - Khanda-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
07.SLE-02 (c)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with right hand only - Mishra-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
08.SLE-03 (a)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with two hands - Trisra-jati-groups - 3 kinds
09.SLE-03 (b)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with two hands - Khanda-jati-groups - 3 kinds
10.SLE-03 (c)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with two hands - Mishra-jati-groups - 3 kinds
11.SLE-03-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with two hands - 3, 5 & 7 Jati-groups - 3 kinds
12.SLE-04 (a)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with right hand only - Trisra-jati-groups - 3 kinds
13 SLE-04 (b)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with right hand only - Khanda-jati-groups - 3 kinds
14.SLE-04 (c)-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with right hand only - Mishra-jati-groups - 3 kinds
15.SLE-04-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with right hand only - 3, 5 & 7 Jati-groups - 3 kinds
16.SLE-05-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands - Khanda-jati in the end of each Avarta
17.SLE-06-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with right hand only - Khanda-jati in the end of each Avarta
18.SLE-07-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with two hands - Khanda-jati in the end of each Avarta
19.SLE-08-Adi-tala - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with right hand only - Khanda-jati in the end of each Avarta
20.SLE-09 (a)-Adi-tala - Trisra-gati - Eka-kala - with right hand only - Chaturashra-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
21.SLE-09 (b)-Adi-tala - Trisra-gati - Eka-kala - with right hand only - Khanda-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
22.SLE-09 (c)-Adi-tala - Trisra-gati - Eka-kala - with right hand only - Mishra-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
23.SLE-10 (a)-Adi-tala - Trisra-gati - Dvi-kala - with two hands - Chaturashra-jati-groups - 3 kinds
24.SLE-11 (a)-Adi-tala - Trisra-gati - Dvi-kala - with right hand only - Chaturashra-jati-groups - 3 kinds
25.SLE-12-Adi-tala - Trisra-gati - Eka-kala - with right hand only - Chaturashra-jati in the end of each Avarta
26.SLE-13-Adi-tala - Trisra-gati - Dvi-kala - with two hands - Chaturashra-jati in the end of each Avarta
27.SLE-14-Adi-tala - Trisra-gati - Dvi-kala - with right hand only - Chaturashra-jati in the end of each Avarta
28.SLE-15-1-Eka-tala-jati-alankara - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
29.SLE-15-2-Rupaka-tala-jati-alankara - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
30.SLE-15-3-Mathya-tala-jati-alankara - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
31.SLE-15-4-Dhruva-tala-jati-alankara - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
32.SLE-15-5-Jhampa-tala-jati-alankara - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
33.SLE-15-6-Ata-tala-jati-alankara - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
34.SLE-15-7-Triputa-tala-jati-alankara - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
35.SLE-15-8 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
36.SLE-15-8 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
37.SLE-16 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
38.SLE-16 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
39.SLE-16 1 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with two hands
40.SLE-17 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with right hand only
41.SLE-17 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra-gati - Eka-kala - with right hand only
42.SLE-18 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with two hands
43.SLE-18 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with two hands
44.SLE-19 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with right hand only
45.SLE-19 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra-gati - Dvi-kala - with right hand only
46.SLE-20 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra & Trisra-gatis - Eka-kala - with right hand only
47.SLE-20 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra & Trisra-gatis - Eka-kala - with right hand only
48.SLE-20 1 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra & Trisra-gatis - Eka-kala - with right hand only
49.SLE-21 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra & Trisra-gatis - Dvi-kala - with two hands
50.SLE-21 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra & Trisra-gatis - Dvi-kala - with two hands
51.SLE-22 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra & Trisra-gatis - Dvi-kala - with right hand only
52.SLE-22 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - Chaturashra & Trisra-gatis - Dvi-kala - with right hand only
53.SLE-23 (a) 1st Jati-alankara - Eka-kala - running @ 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 & 8-units - with right hand only
54.SLE-24 (a) 1st Jati-alankara - Dvi-kala - running @ 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 & 16-units - with two hands
55.SLE-25 (a) 1st Jati-alankara - Dvi-kala - running @ 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 & 16-units - with right hand only
56.SLE-26 Khanda-chapu with only one Khanda-jati in the beginning and the remaining all Chaturashra-jatis
57.SLE-27 Mishra-chapu with only one Mishra-jati in the beginning and the remaining all Chaturashra-jatis

Special-laya-exercises (57) - List in ‘youtube.com/user/msakella’:
01.SLE-01 (a)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands - 3-jati-groups - 3 kinds
02.SLE-01 (b)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands - 5-jati-groups - 3 kinds
03.SLE-01 (c)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands - 7-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
04.SLE-01-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands - 3, 5 & 7-jati-groups - 3 kinds
05.SLE-02 (a)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 1-kala - with right hand only - 3-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
06.SLE-02 (b)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 1-kala - with right hand only - 5-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
07.SLE-02 (c)-Adi-tala – 4-gati - 1-kala - with right hand only - 7-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
08.SLE-03 (a)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 2-kala - with 2 hands - 3-jati-groups - 3 kinds
09.SLE-03 (b)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 2-kala - with 2 hands - 5-jati-groups - 3 kinds
10.SLE-03 (c)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 2-kala - with 2 hands - 7-jati-groups - 3 kinds
11.SLE-03-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 2-kala - with 2 hands - 3, 5 & 7-jati-groups - 3 kinds
12.SLE-04 (a)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 2-kala - with right hand only - 3-jati-groups - 3 kinds
13.SLE-04 (b)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 2-kala - with right hand only - 5-jati-groups - 3 kinds
14.SLE-04 (c)-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 2-kala - with right hand only - 7-jati-groups - 3 kinds
15.SLE-04-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 2-kala- with right hand only - 3, 5 & 7-jati-groups - 3 kinds
16.SLE-05-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands - 5-jati in the end of each Avarta
17.SLE-06-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 1-kala - with right hand only - 5-jati in the end of each Avarta
18.SLE-07-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 2-kala - with 2 hands - 5-jati in the end of each Avarta
19.SLE-08-Adi-tala - 4-gati - 2-kala - with right hand only - 5-jati in the end of each Avarta
20.SLE-09 (a)-Adi-tala - 3-gati - 1-kala - with right hand only – 4-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
21.SLE-09 (b)-Adi-tala - 3-gati - 1-kala - with right hand only - 5-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
22.SLE-09 (c)-Adi-tala - 3-gati - 1-kala - with right hand only - 7-jati-groups - 3 kinds.
23.SLE-10 (a)-Adi-tala - 3-gati - 2-kala - with 2 hands - 4-jati-groups - 3 kinds
24.SLE-11 (a)-Adi-tala - 3-gati - 2-kala - with right hand only - 4-jati-groups - 3 kinds
25.SLE-12-Adi-tala - 3-gati - 1-kala - with right hand only - 4-jati in the end of each Avarta
26.SLE-13-Adi-tala - 3-gati - 2-kala - with 2 hands - 4-jati in the end of each Avarta
27.SLE-14-Adi-tala - 3-gati - 2-kala - with right hand only - 4-jati in the end of each Avarta
28.SLE-15-1-Eka-tala-jati-alankara - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
29.SLE-15-2-Rupaka-tala-jati-alankara - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
30.SLE-15-3-Mathya-tala-jati-alankara - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
31.SLE-15-4-Dhruva-tala-jati-alankara - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
32.SLE-15-5-Jhampa-tala-jati-alankara - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
33.SLE-15-6-Ata-tala-jati-alankara - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
34.SLE-15-7-Triputa-tala-jati-alankara - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
35.SLE-15-8 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
36.SLE-15-8 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
37.SLE-16 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
38.SLE-16 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
39.SLE-16 1 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4-gati - 1-kala - with 2 hands
40.SLE-17 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4-gati - 1-kala - with right hand only
41.SLE-17 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4-gati - 1-kala - with right hand only
42.SLE-18 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4-gati - 2-kala - with 2 hands
43.SLE-18 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4-gati - 2-kala - with 2 hands
44.SLE-19 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4-gati - 2-kala - with right hand only
45.SLE-19 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4-gati - 2-kala - with right hand only
46.SLE-20 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4 & 3-gatis - 1-kala - with right hand only
47.SLE-20 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4 & 3-gatis - 1-kala - with right hand only
48.SLE-20 1 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4 & 3-gatis - 1-kala - with right hand only
49.SLE-21 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4 & 3-gatis - 2-kala - with 2 hands
50.SLE-21 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4 & 3-gatis - 2-kala - with 2 hands
51.SLE-22 (a) 1 to 4 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4 & 3-gatis – 2-kala - with right hand only
52.SLE-22 (b) 5 to 7 Jati-alankaras with Talas - 4 & 3-gatis - 2-kala - with right hand only
53.SLE-23 (a) 1st Jati-alankara - 1-kala - @ 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 & 8-units - with right hand only
54.SLE-24 (a) 1st Jati-alankara - 2-kala - @ 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 & 16-units - with two hands
55.SLE-25 (a) 1st Jati-alankara - 2-kala - @ 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 & 16-units - with right hand only
56.SLE-26 Khanda-chapu with only one 5-jati in the beginning and the remaining all 4-jatis
57.SLE-27 Mishra-chapu with only one 7-jati in the beginning and the remaining all 4-jatis

msakella
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Honest and efficient music-teacher always strives hard to give more knowledge of music to the aspirant but not more items of music. In this manner Chi. Sow. P.T.Ranjani, one of my disciples from Pune, sincerely following this novel method, has efficiently initiated her students sing the first Natakuranji-Varna learnt @ 4-6-8 notes. The respective urls are furnished here for the benefit of the aspirants. amsharma

20151126-Pune-T.Siddhanth (10 years)-Natakuranji-Varna @ 4-6-8 notes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3Mezy ... cslist_api

20151126-Pune-Vandana Natarajan Iye (16 years)r-Natakuranji-Varna @ 4-6-8 notes

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3Mezy ... cslist_api

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Hi All,
I am Rajani Krishna.
My pranamas to revered MS Akella Guruvu garu.It might sound like an exaggeration to most of you,but it is true that I always feel that my introduction in last year to guru garu happened in a strange and miraculous manner.
He has been my guiding source since last year in AMS methods.He taught the intricacies of music in a short span.It could not have happened with out his support.
I am applying and teaching the same methods to students in Pune.It is giving great results;students are enjoying learning on piano and getting it very fast.My own kid of 5.5 years old is singing varnam with great ease.All of my students are singing varnam in a short time.
I am posting Natakuranji varnam rendering of my students and kid

Vandana Natarajan Iyer(16 yr old) :-

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Mez ... jB6d3g3MEE

Sidhanth Pisharodi (10 yr old) :-

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Mez ... 2VNZ0J6VnM

Adhya Nambisan (11 yr old) :-

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Mez ... GxvRGhJeGc

Souris Pramod PT (5.5 yr old)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Mez ... mhPX1MwRXc

Regards,
Rajani Krishna.

msakella
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My Lecture-demonstration held on 30-08-2015 at IIM-Chennai has now been uploaded to Youtube. The respective URL is furnished hereunder for the benefit of the aspirants. amsharma

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 10MUWEQ2cP

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Hi All,
Good Morning.I am Rajani Krishna and I posted audios in the above post.
Now I am back with the videos of my students and kid singing Natakuranji varnam @ 4-6-8 notes.Thanks again to Guruvu garu for his untiring efforts and support to me.

Vandana Natarajan Iyer(16 yr old) :-

https://youtu.be/0O9QbEGJqD8

Sidhanth Pisharodi (10 yr old) :-

https://youtu.be/TSksgVrh4Lk

Adhya Nambisan (11 yr old) :-

https://youtu.be/6Vd8TsUDnIA

Souris Pramod PT (5.5 yr old) :-

https://youtu.be/B6xNV4wZAEc

Regards,
Rajani Krishna.

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Namaskar. I have uploaded the three video files of my daughter Padmini Gopinath - 12 years old 7th grader, rendering creative kalpanaswaram in different talas through AMS Easy methods of learning and training. To note, she has learnt only upto varnas , however - AMSji with minimal guidance initiated her to try Kalpanaswarams in different thalams on her own at this early stage. AMSji's Easy methods and his system of innovative learning has provided very strong foundation for her to complete these creative kalpanaswara exercises without any difficulty. We are blessed to have Shri. AMSji as Guruji and Padmini is learning vocal/violin under his esteemed guidance. AMSji's tireless effort, in particular, his unique way of training, his motivation brings out the hidden talent of Padmini like kids.

Will upload some more videos in this series as and when Padmini completes the lessons

20151208 Padmini Gopinath Creative Kalpanaswara 01 in Rupaka
https://youtu.be/k6OCeyCi36c

20151208 Padmini Gopinath Creative Kalpanaswara 01 in Trisra Rupaka
https://youtu.be/Ah_YfR38uE0

20151208 Padmini Gopinath Creative Kalpanaswara 01 in Chapu
https://youtu.be/uxcY1LJcf74


Thank you very much to AMSji Sir.
Gopi and Uma

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After much thought, I ventured into downloading the AMS easy methods of learning. I had also earlier purchased the books and the cassettes. I have prior music experience having learnt veena for many years and now continuing to learn vocal. My son, 9 years old is learning the methods as shown by Akella Garu in his videos. He is now able to render three varnams as 4-6-8 notes per beat. He is slowly starting to get interested in kalpana swarams and can put kalpana swarams for some krithis.

Along with him I am also learning and it is truly very empowering. When we practise with the metronome we are 100% confident that we are getting it right.

It is true that laya training as emphasized by Akella Garu is the important ingredient in developing confidence to render kalpana swarams. Akella Sir's method gives students the much needed confidence and then music practice becomes fun for children. My son now looks forward to music practice sessions.

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nadasudha

No person is entitled to perform any physical surgery to any person unless he/she has the needed Master’s Degree in Surgery as it culminates into the death of the person which could well be recognized immediately. But, in our music, due to the defective age-old system of learning a number of items but not the needed grammar at all most of the aspirants are becoming musically handicapped for their lives and as such musical-handicap could not even be recognized at all no body is bothering about such deficiency of the system.

In my special case, having come across many failures in my teaching life, I could recognize most of all such deficiencies and, only from these failures, for the first time in the history, I could bring out an efficient system of learning our music in which the aspirant-kid works hard 99% independently in a systematic plan and learn things in a very short time on his/her own under the mere guidance of 1% of the teacher. In this novel and qualitative system of learning, unbelievably, some talented kids can sing even creative Kalpanaswaras even before learning the crucial Varnas. That is the quickness and efficiency of this sytem though it may differ from person to person depending upon the individual and instinctive abilities of the kids.

To perform the forthcoming journey in music the kid must properly be equipped with the knowledge of notation-singing or writing, the intricacies of rhythm and note. That is why the kid must, at the first instance, be initiated by an efficient teacher to learn the different rhythmical exercises, notation-singing and writing with the help of the key-board and singing not only the Alankaras both in Chaturashra and Trisra-gatis but also each and every Varna in Chaturashra, Divya-sankeerna and Mishra-sankeerna-gatis i.e., @ 4-6-8 notes per beat. Then only the kid proceeds further and further in his/her journey independently and learn things on his/her own. amsharma

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Hi All,
I have prior posted natakuranji videos (532# post) of my students.Now I am posting the Kambhoji varnam videos of my students.It is with great joy and excitement I can tell that students are shaping up well with AMS methods.I can say with more confidence that they themselves are learning on their own and I correct incase of mistakes.


Vandana Natarajan Iyer(16 yr old) :-

https://youtu.be/ufHmAevEvmI

Sidhanth Pisharodi (10 yr old) :-

https://youtu.be/73uFM3hmu4I

Adhya Nambisan (11 yr old) :-

https://youtu.be/PUh_xjSdyaw

Souris Pramod (5.5 yr old) :-

https://youtu.be/XGuSGPVZMsE

My pranamas and thanks to AMS Guruvu garu.

Thanks,
Rajani Krishna PT

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I am Dr.N.Krishna veni , A-grade Veena-artist , working in B.V.K.Jr.College , Visakhapatnam as Music Lecturer . I have found the AMS Easy Methods very useful to the aspirants in initiating them to work hard independently on their own in getting the crucial knowledge of singing and writing the notation of not only the compositions but Swarakalpana – exercises and Ragalapana – exercises also which are furnished in ‘ Sangita Svararaga Sudha ‘. Amazingly these methods are helping them a lot in singing creative Swarakalpana and Ragalapana too very quickly and efficiently.
Here we are holding even State –level - music – competitions also in a novel method to encourage the aspirants learn the Alankaras , all the Varnas and Swarakalpana with the rhythmical intricacies to sing them in these competitions.
I hereunder furnish the respective URLs of some of our students who are able to learn them very quickly and sing them very efficiently for the benefit of the other aspirants.
01) K.Mugdha studying Intermediate 1st year HMC ( History,Music,Civics ) group in B.V.K.Jr.College, Visakhapatnam. Being involved in learning music she has completed just 9 months only. Taking guidance and practicing along with the respective videos 'AMS Easy Methods' she is now capable of singing creative swarakalpana.
https://youtu.be/TxP8s13Og2M

02) P.V.S.L.Harshita, K.Mugdha have sung Natakuranji varnam at 4,6,8 notes per kriya taking guidance of AMS Videos.
https://youtu.be/YJzWYLdILB0

03) T.Sunayana, P.V.S.L.Harshita, K.Mugdha have also sung Natakuranji varnam condensed version at 4,6,8 notes per kriya taking guidance of AMS Videos.
https://youtu.be/HSzrYtGca_Y

04) JATI SVARA SAMYOGA; T.Sunayana, P.V.S.L.Harshita, K.Mugdha sang jatis and svaras in trisra, khanda, misra groups of chaturasra gati.
https://youtu.be/8EuGPpj6sEM

05) T.Sunayana, P.V.S.L.Harshita, K.Mugdha have also sung jatis and svaras in chaturasra, khanda, misra groups of trisra gati.
https://youtu.be/PdOiLpr6-Bk

I heartily congratulate all the music teachers and aspirants who are sincerely and honestly following the AMS Easy Methods.

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Post by vvssaraswathi »

Dear Rasikas

I agree to what Smt Krishnaveni garu has told. We found the AMS Easy Methods very useful to the aspirants in initiating them to work hard independently on their own. We have started music from basic level to my elder daughter Chi Padmaja under the guidance of Sri MS Akella garu exactly 2 years back, without her having any music back ground. By looking at the progress of her, we have started it to my younger daughter also in these methods about 7-8 months back.

She leanrs under a teacher by name Sandhya garu , who in turn is learning easy methods from Sri Akella garu. Under the guidance of Sandhya garu and with the support of Sri Akella garu, my second daughter Keertana, who is 11 years old, also has started to progress further. She was able to complete 3 varnas with 4 6 8 speed and was able to complete in short span of time. There are couple of varnas where children are themselves enabled to write the detailed notations by listening to the audio files of Guruvugaru.

Since we do not have any musical back ground at home, I am very happy to see the progress of children.

In this system, We have personally seen and it is amazing that small children writing anuswarams and able to render the same gamakas, without the detailed notation. Once they sing one note per beat, their job became easy to sing 4 6 8.

Please find the attached videos of Chi Keertana who has sung 3 varnas aa karam in 4 6 8 speeds

https://youtu.be/40ffnw1KpBQ - Natakuranji Aa karam 4 6 8
https://youtu.be/ag12oVjh_VE - Kambhoji Aa karam 4 6 8
https://youtu.be/xBmj2Idy4Ds - Darbar Aa karam 4 6 8

There are about 10 children who are learning under guidance of Sandhya garu using AMS easy methods and we are seeing them learning all the laya exercises quickly. They are able to render Geetas in 1 2 3 4 speeds also.

In this method, Chi Keertana also is able to render creative swarakalpana after finishing first varnam, which is surprising.

These methods are helping out many aspirants to increase their speed in learning, there by achieving perfection in short span of time

We want to thank Sri MS Akella garu for his guidance and support to all these small children

Thanks and Regards
Saraswathi

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Post by vasanthakokilam »

Please refer to this post I just made in another thread. See if AMS method shares the characteristics of this concept of 'Deliberate Practice'

http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic ... 37#p300637

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Once, when I met Shri MSG and asked ‘I have heard that you are used to regularly practice for more than 10 to 12 hours a day’. He replied “I have been used to very regularly practice daily for 8 hours only but not more than that. But it is a knowledgeable or logical-practice, I can certainly tell.’

As I have tasted some of his very-rare-violin-playing-techniques, even up to some extent at the least, I can properly understand this ‘knowledgeable or logical-practice’. With this very little knowledge and ability only I could sit beside him in his Violin-Solo-concert at Hyderabad on 09-04-1974. Knowledgeable or logical-practice always doubles the regular practice in each and every respect. It is not that easy to understand Shri MSG’s Violin techniques to any Violinist leave alone attempting them. Some of our Violinists are used to bluff that they have seen their Gurus were playing them or some Violinists are used to claim that they have been practicing them in their regular practice. All these statements are deliberate lies only. None of them had ever dared to play them in any concert. That is the incredible greatness of those techniques. Very sadly and most unfortunately, not a single video of those finger-techniques had ever been taken by anybody or preserved for the educational purpose.of the next generations. That is the pity.

That is why, to preserve these rare and very difficult finger-techniques of Shri MSG I have trained my student Chi. O.Rajashekhar in some of these rare-techniques and initiated him play the Kalyani-Ata-Varna on the 4th string alone starting from Shuddha-madhyama as Shadja @ 120 bpm Metronome speed and uploaded it to ‘youtube.com/user/msakella’. Even after my retirement, I have tried to play some of the important violin-finger-techniques and uploaded the respective videos to the same site for the benefit of our kids.

I had a very nice example of illogical-practice. When I was as a violin-student, in a Violin-solo-concert, when the main-artist played some Trisra-gati-bow-techniques I have very inquisitively asked another Violin-teacher how could I play them. He, being the descendent of Dwaram’s school, replied ‘Unless you very regularly practice for a number of years the Tristhayi @ 1000 numbers per hour and minimum 3 hours daily at a single stretch you cannot even attempt those bow-techniques’. Even though I was also the descendant of Dwaram’s school, till now, I did never play this even 100 numbers altogether in my life-time. However, I could play many more of such bow-techniques with a logical way of practice.

Since many years, by following a very illogical and irrational way of learning all our kids are compelled to learn music wasting their invaluable time for many years, energy and money even without any guarantee of getting even the minimum standards of it. But, nowadays, by following a very strict and logical way of it all our kids, like in the above posts, are able to work on their own and learn things independently, very quickly and very efficiently under the able guidance of our efficient and honest teachers. amsharma

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Hi All,
Good Morning and best wishes.
I owe and indebt a lot to MS Akella Guruvu garu for introducing this method of teaching.

I am ready to post with the new recordIngs of my son Chi.Souris Pramod (Age 5.10 yrs)
Videos of Kalpana swaras 1-2-3 in Trisra rupakam in Kalyani raagam.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Mez ... 2RLR24yV00

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Mez ... kZDeDY3RHM

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Mez ... lhWSmoyWFE

Namaskaram to MS Akella Guruvu garu.

Regards,
Rajani

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Post by Entertainment »

Hi Friends,

I am New to this Group. I share one site for Learning Music. I think its useful to all. Please follow this link.

http://www.yupptv.in/#!/bazaar/channel/Indian-Raga

Regards
Yupptv Bazaar

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Dear Rasikas

I am here to share my experiences with msakella's school of music in bangalore, under the guidance of Smt Sandhya garu (Disciple of sri AMS garu)

Initially , Smt Sandhyagaru started in traditional system and it took quite number of months for children to come to Janta swaras. Even after that, there are lot of sruti problems and it was very difficult to correct each person since they cannot visualize the notes.

She shifted to AMS methods in Aug 2015 and from then, we are able to see good progress with children here. Initially, they struggled with Laya exercises. But once the Laya is stable, they were able to render all Sarali, Alankaras in 1 2 3 4 speed. Sruti also moved fast as they had a base of Casio. Dependency on the teacher reduced and children became more independent. So, we see different levels of people in the class, even though every one started at the same time.

There are about 10 children here out of which 6 students completed Geetas and they can sing Swara, Aa kara and Sahitya in 1 2 3 4 beats per second. They started with 60 speed and 4 of them can sing in 70 speed. 2 students can sing in 90 and 100 speed also.

It is proven that metronome is the best instrument to measure the capability of a person. The person can increase speed and sing aa kara. Even before Children reach Varnas, they get acquainted with notes, melakarta Ragas and they can understand the notation. Once they reach varnas, they are able to demonstrate as well. The melakarta cycles are designed so conveniently that any person can remember so easily.

My second daughter Chi Keertana, 11 years old, is learning from Sandhya garu For last 1 year in AMS system. We have seen that this system enabled her to learn Melakarta Ragas (With and without Gamakas) and 6 varnas in 1 note per beat and also 4 6 8 speeds. This system also enabled her to do creative swarakalpana in 3 different Ragas, with only guidance from a teacher. Practising aa kara in different speeds enabled her to learn Varnam sahityam in a better way.

All parents here are very happy and feel very fortunate to have their children to learn in this system under her. Sri AMS garu is big support to her and children here too.

I personally have seen my elder daughter Chi Padmaja growing in music for last 2 years under guidance of Sri AMS garu. She started music in her class 9th from him. She did not have any back ground or knowledge or interest in music. She started only because of our push. Now, I see that she has developed interest and was able to guide others also with detailed explanation and demonstration. She also takes guidance from Smt Chidrupa Lakshmi garu, who is disciple of Sri AMS garu. They run Sampradaya school of music, hyderabad where 150+ students are trained in this system. Technically, with minimal support, we see my daughter understanding from root. Till 8th, she was an average person in academics and now we see her excelling in studies as well.

I would call this system as "Frame work " to teach / learn music and can enhance the productivity of a person.

I want to thank Sri Akella garu, Smt Chidrupalakshmi garu and Smt Sandhyagaru for their continuous guidance and support.

Regards
Saraswathi

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Post by rshankar »

This sounds amazing! Congratulations to Sri Akella-ji, the gurus, the parents, and the students involved in this.

It would be great if a 'before and after' experiment was done using an independent assessor...

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A student's journey in learning Carnatic Music from AMS Easy Methods

My son Sriram had the opportunity to learn Carnatic music basics from various teachers. These teachers are qualified and had reasonable accomplishment. The method was mostly around student repeating whatever teacher sang. There was no syllabus or text book to know that he as a student progressed from lesson to lesson. Once he went to Kalakshetra he has got a book and syllabus. The training was more structured. Learning has a combination of theory and practice with periodic assessment. While we have no idea of music as parents we could see progress purely from the structure of the method. However, we found some teachers not pronouncing certain syllables or words accurately which the student also learnt the same way. As the teachers don't know the language of the sahityam they could not pronounce properly. It is similar to the way English is spoken by many of us - our pronunciation is influenced by our mother tongue.

Once he started learning from AMS method, he got the benefit of clearly laid out Laya exercises, videos and text book. The basic Laya exercises did not make him sing. Made him understand some structure which we perceived as grammar of music language. While he had to self learn exercises, teacher played the role of a reviewer - if the exercises are done right and concept is understood. It took a bit of time for him to adjust to this unfamiliar way of learning music. Once certain progress is made, he got a keyboard. He was asked to play the swaram on keyboard. Once he played correctly on the keyboard it meant he understood the musical idea of the piece he is playing. Then he was asked to sing. In a matter of 10 months (with multiple breaks due to floods, school exams) he was able to perform creative Kalpanaswara exercises. He is also fortunately blessed to learn from the very person who discovered this easy method from his research.

A number of professionals approach seniors for seeking guidance on how to approach career aspirations and related preparations. Often the mentor tends to advise on what the seeker should do. Professor Clayton Christensen in his book “How will you measure your life” says it is better to give a framework that helps the seeker find answers on her/his own - rather than prescribing to the person who seeks advice.

Very similarly, AMS easy method helps the student find his way to learn and sing. Since teacher does not sing in this method except to clarify a point, many inefficiencies or mistakes of the teacher are not passed on to the student. Strain on the teacher is less. Duration of a class is short. Teacher can train more students in a given duration. To speak like an engineer, teaching productivity is multiplied. Distance education of Carnatic music is made possible.

We took him to Hyderabad for five days to Sampradaya School. https://www.facebook.com/Sampradaya-102258179863889/ We saw this method being used for a group of students under the guidance of a teacher. The learning of concepts is better as it enables mutual learning. Students are learning from teachers' guidance and also from other students. It enables rapid learning.

In summary: AMS easy method teaches students to fish on their own, rather than feeding them with fish. At my work place I started using this approach as a method for mentoring.

20160828 – Sriram Varanasi – NeeduCharanamule – Sihmendramadhyama – Triputa – Kalpanaswara 1
https://youtu.be/a6Lu0qicys8
20160828 – Sriram Varanasi – NeeduCharanamule – Sihmendramadhyama – Triputa – Kalpanaswara 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCy-2fN5zac
20160828 – Sriram Varanasi – NeeduCharanamule – Sihmendramadhyama – Triputa – Kalpanaswara 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcE9_oCvYY

20160828 – Sriram Varanasi – Shambho Mahadeva – Pantuvarali – Rupaka – Kalpanaswara 1
https://youtu.be/Ko_MPIMXyU0
20160828 – Sriram Varanasi – Shambho Mahadeva – Pantuvarali – Rupaka – Kalpanaswara 2
https://youtu.be/9rJB6_uItcs
20160828 – Sriram Varanasi – Shambho Mahadeva – Pantuvarali – Rupaka – Kalpanaswara 3
https://youtu.be/XW1ZlTZtbgQ

20160828 – Sriram Varanasi – Ammaravamma – Kalyani – Trisra Rupaka – Kalpanaswara 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_fcPSoYPyc
20160828 – Sriram Varanasi – Ammaravamma – Kalyani – Trisra Rupaka – Kalpanaswara 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATcGAnOip0
20160828 – Sriram Varanasi – Ammaravamma – Kalyani – Trisra Rupaka – Kalpanaswara 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq9MEHGm82k

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vvsraveendra
Very lovely post . It came with specifics when I have time I will watch either the needucharanamule or shambhomahadeva. For a change you went from chennai to hyderabad to get more specific training. Best wishes for sriram to reach the varanasi ganga Status of CM (in terms of performance)

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With reference to the post No 522 13 years old my great-grand-daughter, Chi Padmaja, having learnt music for only one-and-half years from me became able to sing a mini-concert along with Swarakalpna and Ragalapana. Along with my Lec-dem she also sang at IGNCA, Bangalore on 08-08-2015 and at IIT, Chennai on 30-08-2015.

While attending to the Lec-dem at Chennai I have stayed with my another grand-daughter, Chi. Sow. Meenakshi Madhavi Raveendra and found that her son, Chi. Shreeram is studying music in the famous Kalakshetra. Inquisitively when I tested him in my own way I found his instinctive rhythmical talent was very high but was not observed by the respective teachers who are always used to teach in their age old monotonous system. And from Oct., 2015 I have started initiating him in intricate rhythmical exercises weekly twice by Skype from Hyderabad. He very efficiently finished all these exercises and continued to learn mostly basing upon the key-board and metronome. But, due to heavy floods and other occasional obstructions the classes ran on very slow pace. In the meantime in Feb., 2016 I became bedridden due to severe illness from which I am gradually recouping now. So, I have entrusted him to Chi. Padmaja who proved herself a reliable teacher. Since then, by learning from her he had finished 5 or 6 Varnas and also became able to sing even creative Swarakalpana of which the respective urls are furnished by his father in the above post. This obviously proves that even a B-grade musician can very efficiently make a kid learn the basics.

To tell the fact, almost all our musicians, irrespective lf their stature, are performers only but not teachers at all about which many are not aware at all. That is why they all have illogically dumped all the syllabi in the music schools, colleges and Departments of music in the Universities with a number of items or compositions only very pitiably throwing the responsibility of acquiring the knowledge of Manodharma Sangita upon the poor aspirant himself/herself. That is why most of these candidates passing these examinations do not have the ability either to sing even the Alankaras or Varnas both in Chaturashra and Trisra-gatis or minimum Swarakalpana or Ragalapana. But, in this novel and logical method of learning music each and every kid can do all these things very efficiently and successfully even within the first year of learning. TO TELL THE TRUTH ANY TRUE-TEACHER CAN VERY EASILY MAKE ANY KID, WHO PROPERLY SINGS THE ALANKARAS AND VARNAS BOTH IN CHATURASHRA AND TRISRA-GATIS, SING EVEN CREATIVE SWARAKALPANA HARDLY WITHIN THREE MONTHS.

Even though Chi. Shreeram has been learning music in Kalakshetra in the same old monotonous system of teaching music when he was logically exposed and initiated he became able to sing even creative swarakalpana successfully.

I sincerely hope that the respective teachers of this reputed institute will certainly do the needful to bring other students also on par with Chi. Shreeram and furnish the respective urls in these columns for the benefit of the other aspirants. amsharma

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Post by chennuakhileshwar »

Respected sir (A.M.S),
My name is Akhil Chennu,
i have learned previously carnatic music for one year in an institute and now i shifted to other place for my higher studies where there is no scope for learning carnatic music.
i was following you A.M.S easy methods since one month practicing daily according to the schedule given in the book, believe me i have gained so much regarding knowledge, vocal strength...etc. To keep simple in one month, i have gained more than what i have learned in the previous for one year.
thanks for also helping me regarding the doubts in the phone call itself and motivating me through your work.
the laya exercises had taught me alot and i cant express the value of that exercises, they are simply awesome.
thanks may be a small word for this work, but i will be thankful to you for my whole life for this greatest opportunity you have given.
thank you so much Sharma Sir.

vvssaraswathi
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Dear Rasika members,

As shared in some of my previous posts, my second daughter also started music freshly under guidance of Smt Sandhya garu in Bangalore 1.4 years back in AMS methods. She is in 6th class now. With these methods, under the guidance of teacher, I am very happy to see her progress. I am seeing progress of all students of Sandhya garu.

In fact, once Varnams start, they are able to understand the symbolized notation and able to apply gamakas and Kampitas in varnams with clear differentiation. For couple of varnas, Children are encouraged to write anuswara notation on their own. This enables children to get more acquaintance with notations and swaras. They are also encouraged to learn 32 melakarta ragas before entering into varnas.

she is able to complete 7 varnas with guidance from teacher where teacher does not sing or sings very minimal. This method is enabling faster and independent learning.

I am attaching some links for reference

Todi purvangam @ 4,6,8 per sec
https://youtu.be/UYYzIxbUm1Y

Uttarangam @ 4 6 8 per sec
https://youtu.be/k7Gd41leDkU

I want to thank Sri AMS garu and Smt Sandhyagaru for their extensive support.

Thanks
Saraswathi

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Further to my previous post, I am attaching video files of Creative swara kalpana of Chi keertana , who is learning under Sandhya garu in AMS methods

Tamarasa - Kalyani - Khanda Chapu - Kalpana swaras 1
https://youtu.be/sfK5ouJqiic

Tamarasa - Kalyani - Khanda Chapu - Kalpana swaras 2
https://youtu.be/WRgK2dQefgM

Tamarasa - Kalyani - Khanda Chapu - Kalpana swaras 3
https://youtu.be/5y79sCPcky8

Sambho Mahadeva - Pantuvarali- Rupaka - Kalpana swaras 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L82sX-SQAVo

Sambho Mahadeva - Pantuvarali- Rupaka - Kalpana swaras 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3D9KdQtr_A

Sambho Mahadeva - Pantuvarali- Rupaka - Kalpana swaras 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYie5E_zD8Y

Needu Charanamule - Misra Chapu - Simhendra Madhyamam - Kalpana Swaras 1
https://youtu.be/px2aNTgsfak

Needu Charanamule - Misra Chapu - Simhendra Madhyamam - Kalpana Swaras 2
https://youtu.be/ms1wlXk67TQ

Needu Charanamule - Misra Chapu - Simhendra Madhyamam - Kalpana Swaras 3
https://youtu.be/mDV0E9Rk-oE

What we observed is - There is a template / Frame work defined by Sr Akella garu to do creative Swara kalpana in a very short time in an efficient way.

Here, the Teacher made sure that the student enters through that frame work with Jatis even before entering into Geetas.

By the time they complete one or 2 geetas, Children are comfortable with Jatis in different combinations and it enables child to do creative swarakalpana efficiently and effectively in a short duration of time

The role of teacher is very important here as a guide and mentor for every child. I observed that Sandhyagaru is using the AMS frame work to ease the teaching thereby enabling children to learn faster. There is a logical and sequential approach to achieve the same. This is why children are able to progress further.

Thanks to Sri AMS garu for his easy methods and Smt Sandhyagaru for their support.

Regards

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Unless the aspirant has the source to listen to the music he/she cannot learn the music. In the olden days when there were no gadgets either to record or reproduce the sound the aspirant was compelled to rely upon somebody else for this purpose. By all this since a very long time, ultimately, the so called teachers made the poor aspirant dependent upon them perennially.

In the olden days we have been used to go by walk even to Varanasi. But, after the invention of cycle or motor-cycle or car or train or aero-plane or helicopter etc., the mode of journey has gradually been quickened saving our invaluable time or energy or money. Nowadays each and everybody laughs at any person if he/she talks about going to Varanasi by foot. While the foreigners have always been in the process of research and development of many aspects in benefiting the society our music-teachers are adamant to find such beneficial methods themselves or even to follow such proven methods for the benefit of the poor aspirants and their parents.

Very sadly, in our music, our so called music-teachers or Gurus want to properly and efficiently utilise the modern sound-gadgets and Skype for themselves only to earn more money but not to make the process of learning more easy and fast. Surprisingly, each and every music-teacher talks very extensively about Manodharma-sangita and tells it is very difficult to get it. But many experiments undoubtedly proved that Manodharma Sangita is very easy to get and not that difficult as confused by the so-called Vidwans.

Last year, on 08-08-2015, I have given a Lec-dem in IGNCA, Bangalore on the modern learning methods in our music. In this respect, my 13 yr. old great-grand-daughter, Chi. Padmaja from Bangalore, having been trained by me for 1 ½ yrs., only @ weekly two classes by telephone from Hyderabad, sang both the Purvanga and Uttaranga of the Varna @ 4-6-8 notes per beat followed by a Chapu-tala-kriti with brief Ragalapana and intricate mathematical Swarakalpana. In this respect it is very important to note that, in any of these classes, I did never sing even for a minute. But, later, in the panel-discussion half-a-dozen local experts in music participated and discussed many other aspects but without observing this important point. That is the pity.

Again, very recently, I happened to go through a video (https://youtu.be/FPBtCrwzYb8) of a veteran musician in which he himself moderated the panel discussion also along with a panel of experts in respect of his Lec-dem on Manodharma Sangita held earlier. In it, in the beginning he expressed “Though this cannot be taught how does a teacher guide the aspirant into the process of Manodhrama Sangita - we shall discuss”. But, very sadly, later in this discussion, none of them came out with any logical and graded plan of action to be followed either by the teacher or the aspirant in this respect. So, accordingly, I have recorded my dis-satisfaction in this respect in the comments of this video.

The true music-teacher always sings or plays the instrument the minimum but initiates the aspirant sing or play the maximum in which way the mother eats very little just to show her kid how and what to eat. Had these experts in the above discussions given any suitable and logical plan of action to arrive at the Manodharma-sangita it would have helped the inquisitive aspirants a lot. But, very sadly, as usual, the real purpose of them has not been fulfilled. That is the pity.

Each and every person, in general, does anything of his life as per his/her own Manodharma and this certainly defers from person to person. In such case I do not know why, when and by whom this word ‘Manodharma-sangita’ was created in respect of our Sangita only, in particular. More over, most of the veteran musicians speak very extensively about this Manodharma-sangita but do nothing in arriving at it very quickly and efficiently. That is the pity.

In the olden days when there were no gadgets either to record or re-produce the sound the aspirant was compelled to depend upon any other person in many ways in learning music. But, now, when such modern gadgets are very easily available and accessible to any person is it necessary to depend upon another person in learning music? No. In which way a person need not walk all the way to and from Varanasi but properly utilise the modern travelling facilities to save the invaluable time, money and energy, nowadays, the aspirant also can rely mostly upon these modern-sound-gadgets in learning the music. The experienced music-teacher only must pave way not to sing or play the instrument himself/herself and make the aspirant also follow him/her but initiate the aspirant to the maximum to work and learn things on his/her own in this process. But, as this drastically reduces not only the importance of the teacher making the aspirant independent but also the earnings of the teacher by quickening the process of learning no music-teacher comes out to follow this. Thus, no music-teacher prefers to give notated compositions or pre-recorded CDs or DVDs or encourages the aspirant to write the Kalpana-swaras or Ragalapana in notation on one pretext or the other.

In this modern ‘time-bound and result-oriented’ system in learning our music there is a perfect and logical plan of action to very quickly arrive at the Manodharma-sangita hardly within a couple of years. In this system while the aspirant’s role, mostly relying upon the notations, audio-files and video-files, is more than 95% the teacher’s role is limited to less than 5%. All our music-teachers, who have always been used to mostly sing or play the instruments themselves, perennially keeping the poor aspirant dependent upon them, are unable to understand or digest or even willing to make the aspirant work independently in this manner. However, though not all, the honest and efficient music-teachers among them are very strictly following this modern system at some places like Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Chennai, Bangalore, Poona etc. and getting amazing results. As part of them the respective urls of such talented kids are furnished in the above posts for the benefit of the interested aspirants and their parents. amsharma

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Since a long time I have been used to go through a number of youtube-videos containing the Lec-dems rendered by many musicians of different levels in respect of approaching the Manodharmam. But, very sadly, each and everybody gave his/her own traditional and circuitous method which ends no where but not any logical method at all. Ultimately, basing upon my extensive experiments on the kids themselves, I, in many cases, having found that, at the first instance, it is essential to save the kid from the inefficiencies of the teacher, arrived at an affective logical method of learning our music. By very strictly following this, after getting properly stabilised their rhythmical abilities hardly within a month and, accordingly, following the Kalpanaswara-exercises 1, 2 & 3 in all the popular six Talas furnished in the msakella’s Easy Methods, several kids are able to sing even creative Swarakalpana hardly within the fist six months of learning. The videos of several talented kids furnished in all the above posts prove this beyond any doubt.

While the exercises of Kalpanaswaras 1, 2 & 3 furnished in the CD of this book are abundantly helping the aspirants in singing even the creative Kalpanaswaras, the exercises of Ragalapana-notations of three Ragas are helping the aspirants in singing the Alapanas of the Ragas also hardly within only one year. These Alapana exercises are furnished in segmented-notation and each segment is sung twice and once with Akaram to be helpful to the aspirants. While following them the aspirant can listen to each segment several times and get them by-heart very easily and conveniently at his/her own time and pace which is not at all possible while learning from a teacher in person. Unlike in the past, to serve this purpose very quickly and very efficiently, these Ragas are segmented, recorded and this book is supplied along with an audio CD.

While only three ragas are furnished in this book, now, 16 more folders containing some more Ragas and their respective segments played by the Great Violin-trinity (MSG-LGJ-MC) are kept ready for the use of the interested aspirants.

Having successfully and efficiently accompanied hundreds of musicians all over the globe for several years the Raga delineation of this Violin-trinity is always higher and unparalleled. That is why their versions are taken and furnished to help our kids and as a sample the url link of the Mohana-raga-folder is furnished hereunder for the benefit of the aspirants all over the globe. Any aspirant, whoever wants the folders of other Ragas also, can choose the version of Mohana-raga played by one of them, properly notate in English, sing and record in the same segmented manner and send them all to me by email. amsharma

Mohana: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8dg29ra49fl8m/Mohana

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Yesterday I have read in the news papers that the Great Ilairajah imposed some kind of restriction upon the singers that they should not sing the songs he had tuned. This may be legally right but very ridiculous and I very sincerely and honestly feel that this day is a BLACK-DAY for music. Then what about our Trinity, Thyagaraja, Dikshitat and Shyamashastry and other great composers and their invaluable compositions. Are all our musicians not making different kinds of businesses out of their compositions? Even to think about this is a very great sin, I feel. I cannot and do not like to write much in this foreign language in this respect.

I very sincerely and honestly feel it as my duty to provide each and every possible thing to the aspirants learning our music all over the globe. In this respect I have already uploaded nearly 1000 videos under nearly 35 to 40 playlists to ‘youtube.com/user/msakella’ to help the aspirants learning either vocal or violin. Also uploaded two CDs to 'sangeethamshare'. In the same manner I have also brought out five books along with notated compositions and pre-recorded CDs to be helpful for these aspirants. Now, I hereunder furnish the respective urls of the audio-files (nearly 40 GB) uploaded to ‘MediaFire’ to help the aspirants all over the globe. I shall extremely be happy if all other musicians also honestly help our aspirants in this manner. amsharma

MediaFire Audio-files uploaded by msakella:
20161229 & 20170311:

LGJ-Compositions: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/9hhjrt ... mpositions

LGJ-Ragas: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/nepjog ... /LGJ-Ragas

MC-Ragas: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/oy31ekki0xc7e/MC-Ragas

Mridangam-tanis: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/9csx29 ... ngam_Tanis

MSG-Compositions: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/372aok ... mpositions

MSG-H: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/rcnq8762qqrko/MSG-H

MSG-Ragas: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d77jaa ... /MSG-Ragas

NKM-Compositions: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4menoa ... mpositions

NKM-Ragas: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/3qqntt ... /NKM-Ragas

NKM_AMS_VKR_USA Concerts: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/jrcw9n ... A_Concerts

Segmented Violin Ragas: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/39c9on ... olin_Ragas

Arabhi: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/oci3zagh5w6tv/Arabhi

Athana: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/497a583o2tfs1/Athana

Begada: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7oii5vjxoidh7/Begada

Bhairavi: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bf22s39xir9wr/Bhairavi

Bilahari: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7j6yg0z7rsrw7/Bilahari

Kalyani: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/9ntb8amyjh85d/Kalyani

Kambhoji: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/k3175y4v1122w/Kambhoji

Kedaragaula: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/5ycbi5 ... edaragaula

Kharaharapriya: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/87y6wm ... aharapriya

Madhyamavati: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/qmc1q8 ... dhyamavati

Mohana: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8dg29ra49fl8m/Mohana

Purvakalyani: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/u053rz ... rvakalyani

Saveri: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/eaex2vnkqo3x4/Saveri

Shankarabharanam: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/wgk6se ... rabharanam

Shanmukhapriya: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/o0ft81 ... mukhapriya

Todi: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/t1hfmlslm9vdr/Todi

Tambura Shrutis: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/z2mud889gds42/Shrutis

1.0: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bn0irw5ysftpf/1.0

1.5: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/s39ads7d9quec/1.5

2.0: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1dm7xl69qskrp/2.0

2.5: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ppd8f184h4mxl/2.5

3.0: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/yh5rq5l5pu818/3.0

4.0: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/9khy3i29hbccb/4.0

4.5: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/3dex1n6wm9nvo/4.5

5.0: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/owmly033i7xoc/5.0

5.5: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1o1vt34bepxid/5.5

6.0: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/na7woupt4kyuw/6.0

6.5: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8278y1m9agiwd/6.5

7.0: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/2q21f1s622i64/7.0

Voleti-Ragas: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ronf95 ... leti-Ragas

Navanakshatramalika-Audios: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/b0b0xto ... ika-Audios

01. Shankarabharanam: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/5kvnrlz ... rabharanam
02. Kambhoji: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/kg5aaxb ... 2.Kambhoji
03. Bhairavi: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/r4wndkr ... 3.Bhairavi
04. Kharaharapriya: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/ugbybkm ... aharapriya
05. Todi: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/lu1mqiule5hzi/05.Todi
06. Saveri: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/vocok58buhieu/06.Saveri
07. Mohana: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/0bqpxx8d6a1qv/07.Mohana
08. Purvakalyani: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/88r2goa ... rvakalyani
09. Madhyamavati: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/ch1inq3 ... dhyamavati

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After 5 years after my retirement in 1996, in 2001, in an introspection, the Almighty had brought out my inefficiencies as a music-teacher and also blessed me with an amazing and unbelievable system of learning our music in which the teacher's role is minimised to less than 5 % and the role of the aspirant is maximised to more than 95% making the entire process of learning very strictly 'logical, time-bound & result-oriented'.

In our old suicidal system of learning music the aspirant is compelled to mostly depend upon the teacher and illogically learn a large number of items only by listening to him face to face but not any part of the so called Manodharma as it is not the tradition to be taught or learnt. But, in this unique modern system of learning, right from the first day of learning, singing creative Kalpanasvaras which is the entrance of Manodharma is the Crux and, accordingly, kids are able to sing both intricate rhythmical and creative Svarakalpana and Ragalapana also hardly within one year even before learning the first Kriti on their own and with the barest minimum dependence upon the teacher.

Accordingly, in 2010, I have initiated 11 yr. old Chi. Shreenidhi, grand-daughter of my friend Shri S.Nageshwaran, Chennai in this unique system of learning music weekly twice by Skype as she resides in Chennai and myself at Hyderabad. Even without singing myself Sa or Pa even for a minute in any of the classes I have made her ably sing a mini-concert of 45 mts., with brief Ragalapana and intricate mathematical and creative Svarakalpana in Chapu-tala (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6PzLGv8xFw) in Chennai in December, 2010 in Global Rasikas Meet and proved that a kid could very efficiently be initiated in singing Svarakalpana and Ragalapana hardly within a year.

Again, in the same manner, without playing Violin even for a minute in most of the classes, I have also initiated a seven year old kid, Chi. Rishabh Ranganathan-Violin of Chicago weekly twice by Skype and made him successfully play a 45 mts., mini-violin-concert after 2 years at Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha, Chennai (http://youtu.be/HW1km-mHYjM).

Again in 2014, in the same manner I, without singing Sa or Pa even for a minute in any of the classes, have properly initiated my great-grand-daughter Chi. Padmaja (11 yr. old) of Bangalore weekly twice by Skype and, within a span of hardly 1 1/2 yrs., made her sing a mini-concert at IGNCA, Bangalore (20150808-https://youtu.be/P7CLYMgCuWk?list=PLtlk ... gRDmIMym5X)
and another at IIT, Chennai (20150830-https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 10MUWEQ2cP)
with intricate mathematical and creative Svarakalpana and brief Ragalapana efficiently and successfully.

Recently, in the 2nd week of March, 2017, two kids, Chi Jyothirmayi (11yrs.- 9397104646) and Chi. Sai Meghana (23 yrs.-8106132115), who have previously learnt few bare Varnas & Kritis, have approched me to learn music.

Then, as per this unique modern system, I, as usual, without singing Sa or Pa even once in any of the classes, initiated them twice in a week by Skype to work hard very regularly with different rhythmial exercises. They did them well and proceeded further learning things on their own mostly relying upon the Keyboard, metronome, detailed and symbolised notations, audio and video files.

As per this modern system, from Varnas, they have played and sang all of them, at the first instance @ one-note-per-second. And later they have played and sang @ 4-6-8 notes per beat
(i.e., both in Chaturashra and Trisra-gatis) also successfully and sent the first, Natakuranji-varna to me by WhatsApp on 20170517 and later all other 8 Varnas and Bhairavi-Svarajati too.

While they are dealing with Kalyani-varna, I have initiated them to, simultaneously, to practice first the Jati and later the Svara of the Kalpanasvaras- 1, 2 & 3 of my book, 'Akella's Easy Methods'. They successfully fulfilled it. Then, I have initiated them in singing creative Kalpanasvaras for both Sama & Vishama-grahas also, in learning Kritis in Kalyani & Mohana and in singing brief Ragalapana too.

Now, the respective URL link is furnished hereunder in which the respective videos are furnished chronologically to prove that the kids can very efficiently be initiated in singing not only creative and intricate mathematical Kalpanasvaras but brief Ragalapana too hardly even within 3 months.

AMS-Jyothirmayi & SaiMeghana:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... Bwfx1O_rLu

20170517-Natakuranji
20170518-Kambhoji
20170520-Darbar
20170521-Shankarabharana
20170522-Kalyani
20170526, 27-1.KS.1, 2, 3
20170530-2.KS.1, 2, 3
20170531-Begada
20170601-3.KS.1, 2, 3
20170610 & 14-Todi
20170619 & 20-Saveri
20170624 & 25-1.1.KS.1, 2, 3
20170627, 28, 07/01 & 02-Bhairavi
20170706, 08, 09, 12 & 13-1.2.KS.1, 2, 3
20170718-Svarajati
20170808-Amma-Kalyani-Trisra-rupaka
20170811 & 12-Evarura-Mohana-Chapu
(KS-Kalpanasvara)

Just like in driving a motorcycle or in cooking in which the true-teacher without doing himself merely initiates the aspirant in doing and learning things on his own, me too, without singing or playing Sa or Pa in most of the classes, have merely initiated the aspirants in doing and learning things on their own. In my extensive experiments it was proved, beyond any doubt, that by initiating the aspirant in this manner the aspirant himself/herself works independently as per his/her own pace or sharpness or intelligence. But, if the teacher himself sings a little and makes the aspirant follow him, by that, the aspirant's pace will become restricted and he also becomes dependent upon the teacher which is not at all desirable.

In this unique system, right from the first day of the lesson, the aspirant works himself independently with the help of the notations, audio-files, video-files, keyboard and very strictly along with the metronome under the vigilant supervision of the teacher up to the Varnas. Later, from Kritis, this supervision is gradually reduced.

Efficient, honest and reliable music-teacher never tries to dump the aspirant with a large number of items but properly equips him with the mostly needed material to proceed further and further quickly on his own. Thus, removing all the
illogicalities of the old system, now, the process of learning is reduced to a couple of years only as against the old system of 10 or 15 years or even more.

Some of the efficient, honest and reliable music-teachers who are more interested in sincerely helping the kids from Hyderabad (9440258683-with 3 local branches), Bangalore (9243088386), Chennai (9444025313), Vishakhapatnam (9849883416), and Pune (9890934346) than in the pecuniary benefits are striving hard to help the aspirants by saving their invaluable time, energy and money of nearly 200 kids.

Almost, since last 10 years, through these columns of 'rasikas' l have very fervently been appealing to the teaching community to follow this unique method in teaching our music and honestly help the kids and their parents as well by saving the invaluable time, energy and money of them. But, except very few honest teachers who are more interested in truly helping the kids than in the pecuniary benefits came out open and are very sincerely helpng to nearly 200 school-going kids at different places, as mentioned above, following this modern system of learning.

In my extensive research upon these illogical methods in teaching our music which are unanimously followed by all these parasitical performers of music since many years many atrocities of them came into light. To tell the bare fact, since many years, they all have wantonly, maliciously and illogically closed all the easy doors leading to music and made the poor aspirants perennially dependents upon the so called 'Gurus' which became handy to squeeze them in many ways and I am ready to prove this at any time and place. When I,
only by the grace of the Almighty, could gradually find them all, take all the possible remedial measures and implemented them in our institution, Svarabhangima at Secunderabad the process of learning music became independent, quicker and much efficient and all the 60+ school-going kids are amazingly and unbelievably becoming able to sing even creative Svarakalpana and Ragalapana hardly within a year.

In fact, institutions like the Music Academy, Chennai must come out and hold periodical meetings and discussions at length among the music-teachers to help the poor aspirants. But, as most of the so called experts of these institutions are mostly conservatives and egoistic persons and as any action in this direction not only culminates into heavy financial loss to the music-teachers but also spills out their own beans in this respect embarassingly none of them is favourable to hold any kind of such meetings or discussions and the like in truly helping the poor aspirants. They may be experts in performing, but the question is, can any one of them, without singing himself for more than 5% in any of the music-classes, initiate the aspirant work for more than 95%, learn things accordingly, sing the Varnas in full @ 4-6-8 notes per beat and sing creative Swarakalpana along with the intricate mathematical Svarakalpana within one year even before learning the first Kriti on his own? Anybody who can do so can prove it in the above mentioned manner furnishing the respective urls chronologically in these columns.

In general, insensible rogues and culprits only turn a deaf-ear irresponsibly against such challenges, become tight-lipped and do not even respond at all. But, even though many of our stalwart musicians and reputed teachers are mostly conservatives and egoistic persons, I honestly hope that, unlike the rogues and culprits, they will certainly respond positively in this respect and do the needful in honestly helping our aspirants. amsharma.

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I would like to download the entire CDs - if that is too large at least split into 4 or 6 files - its a paid to download 481 files one by one! Would be great if that can be arranged please.

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Dear b/s-member, svasanth,

1-AMS-Easy-Methods-Rhythms-And-RhythmMelodies
AMS-Kids-Instrumental-Music
AMS-Kids-Rhythmelodies
AMS-Kids-Rhythms
AMS - Rhythms - And - Rhythmelodies – Tables
2-AMS-Easy-Methods-2007-CD-1
3-AMS-Easy-Methods-2007-CD-2
4-AMS-Profile
This material is freely available from the following link: amsharma
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/chandra/ ... hods-2007/
http://sangeethamshare.org/chandra/AMS- ... PerSecond/

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Respected Sir,

Thank you for the response. I had already accessed the first link (the second one does not seem to work). My issue is that each file in these folders needs to be downloaded one at a time, and you can imagine the pain to do this almost 500 times!

Is there a place from where I can download the entire folders in one go.

Regards

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Dear b/s-member, svasanth,

I am not well versed in this computer technology. However, I am trying to manage with it in serving our people. Now, I hereunder furnish two more Dropbox links from which you can download them conveniently. Try them. Or, if not, if you send somebody I shall give these two CDs for you. amsharma

CD-1: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/12bs2kc8goab ... Q30pa?dl=0
CD-2: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dvubi2w25di0 ... uAH_a?dl=0

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Thank you - much appreciated!

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In continuation to my previous post No.553 pertaining to the videos of the kids, Chis. Jyothirmayi & SaiMeghana, later, they continued their progress as furnished hereunder:

20170826-Kritis in Hindola & Hamsadhvani
20170803: Kriti in Shreeranjani
20170807-Kriti in Shreeranjani.

In this respect it is very important to note that the kids, if they are properly guided by an efficient and honest teacher, they can certainly becoame able to sing even creative Kalpanasvaras along with intricate mathematical Kalpanasvaras for the Kritis of all the six prominent Talas hardly within the duration of six months. amsharma

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Like in the post No.554, in the same 2nd week of March, 2017, Chi. Chennu Akhileshwar (21 yrs.), a fresh candidate belonging to Telangana but studying Engineering in Bangkok, also approached me to learn music.

Then, as per this unique modern system, I have tested the level of his instinctive abilities and initiated him weekly twice by Skype to work hard very regularly with different rhythmical exercises. After one month, even without singing myself Sa or Pa even once in any of the classes, I have initiated him by telephone in doing and learning things independently on his own mostly relying upon the Keyboard, metronome, detailed and symbolised notations, audio and video files and my instructions.

In the old, quantitative and suicidal system of teaching, while the aspirant is perennially made dependent upon the so called Guru in singing along and learning a number of items from him which will not allow to properly utilise the instrinctive skills of the aspirant but enables only to develop his imitative abilities the modern qualitative method of learning (not teaching) makes him independent in working and learning the items on his own fully utilising and developing his instinctive skills. In the old and quantitative system of teaching in the span of 10 yrs or even more while less than 20% of the aspirants only may become knowledgeable in singing concerts, in this modern and qualitative system of learning, more than 80% of the aspirants will certainly become knowledgeable in singing concerts. But, as this modern system is not financially encouraging to earn more in the quickened span of learning many music-teachers are adament to follow it but becoming tight-lipped to comment.

Till now, within 7 months in which he was hospitalised for 2 ½ months, my student covered 5 Varnas in Natakuranji, Kambhoji, Darbar, Shankarabharana and Kalyani and, simultaneously, started singing the Jati & Kalpana-swaras-1 and they all are furnished date-wise in youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... Bwfx1O_rLu. amsharma

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Kudos to Guruji's efforts.
With wishes,
Thanjavooran
30 10 3017

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Dear brother-member, thanjavooran,

Thank you for your kind appreciation.

I sincerely feel happy if all our kids and their parents are largely benefitted by saving their invaluable time, energy and money in the process of learning our classical music. amsharma

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If a person, being aware of the driving of the motor-cycle and also owns a motor-cycle, wants to attend to an urgent personal work, can certainly attend to it and get it done independently and successfully without depending upon any other person. But, if the same person is not aware of the driving of the motor-cycle and also does not own a motor-cycle, he is compelled to absolutely become dependent upon others in many aspects and does not have any guarantee in getting his personal work fulfilled within time. To tell the fact, the condition of the aspirant learning music in the old method is also not much different with the above dependent person.

There are only two ways in learning music, 1.listening to the song sung by somebody either face to face or from a pre-recorded gadget and 2.to rely upon the ordinary or the symbolised notation of the item. Than learning from face to face, relying upon a pre-recorded gadget enables the aspirant not only to utilise his own instinctive talents but also to work more time of his own choice in the process of learning the items without depending upon any other person.

Merely by listening to the song sung by the singer the aspirant can very easily reproduce it. While some aspirants may need to listen to it many a time some intelligent aspirants may do so by listening to it few times only and this depends upon the grasping and imitative abilities of the aspirant. In this kind of process of learning music as the teacher does not have any other responsibility than singing himself and making the aspirant also sing along with him in singing all the musicians, without any exception, have all along been preferring this method only since a very long time.

Also there is another process of learning music in which the teacher has to write in notation either the item or composition or Niraval or Swarakalpana or Ragalapana, give it to the aspirant and, explaining him each and every detail, make him sing or the teacher has to train the aspirant not only in properly writing all of them in notation but also in singing them on his own.

As most of the stalwarts of music have always been very busily engaged in regularly singing concerts at various places and in earning many things out of them they all, absolutely avoiding the laborious task of writing in notation, preferred to remain always singing either in their regular practice or in making different aspirants also sing along with them as this facilitates them not only to sing their concerts efficiently but also in escaping away from the responsibility of inculcating the knowledge of writing the notation of items or compositions or Niraval or Swarakalpana or Ragalapana in the aspirant. By all this, ultimately, the poor aspirant was made the scape goat always remaining as dependent upon the teacher in the process of listening to him, while learning the items.

Among the four southern states of our country the Tamilians always stand in the fore front in serving the cause of music in so many ways and means and all the others follow them. Even among them, the persons with conservative, egoistic and selfish attitudes are mostly used to dominate the field and they are the people who have formulated this old method of teaching music in which the poor aspirants have to spend 10 or 15 years or even more in going on listening to the teacher and imitating him in singing in the process of learning a number of compositions as nothing of them should be written in notation. More over, by all this, unfortunately, the aspirant is not at all allowed to utilise his own instinctive abilities but his imitative abilities only.

Having seen this precarious dependent life of the poor aspirants and their parents, Subbarama Dikshitar, the grand-son of Muthuswamy Dikshitar the great, with great heart, brought out his monumental work, Sangeeta Sampradaya Pradarshini (Telugu), in 1902 along with hundreds of music compositions written in symbolised notation for the first time in the annals of our music literature to honestly help the poor aspirants and their parents. In the history of our music, till now, he was the first and only person who very sincerely, honestly and constructively brought out this symbolised notation to help the poor aspirants by minimising their dependency upon the teacher in the process of learning music. But, most unfortunately, our conservative, selfish and egoistic musicians, who have declared that music should never be written in any manner but be learnt listening to it directly face to face from the teacher himself, have profusely praised Subbarama Dikshitar overtly but covertly dumped the symbolised notation without using or developing or propagating it in any manner.

In my extensive research in this respect, it has undoubtedly been proved that, like in respect of the account of the clothes given to the washer-man or the account of money in the banks, it helps a lot to the aspirants in working for many more hours of their choice and learning music with minimum dependency upon others if each and everything (items or compositions or Niraval or Kalpana-swaras or Ragalapana) is written in ordinary notation or symbolised notation followed by the pre-recorded audio or video-files (by all this, it is evident that the person who, without singing himself, initiates the aspirant sing all the Varnas learnt both in Chaturashra and Trisra-gatis within the first 6 months and Swarakalpana within next 6 months only must be called 'teacher' or, no doubt, a 'cheater').

For this purpose, for the first time in the history, I have fully categorised all the 12 notes and brought out 60 symbols along with the respective notation and audio-file and supplied along with my book, 'msakella's Easy Methods in Learning Karnataka Music-2007'.

Keeping all the above in view, I have brought out everything to be learnt either in symbolised notation or ordinary notation and audio and video files to honestly help the aspirants who work on their own at their residences even in my absence (I never sing or play even for a single minute in any of the classes but only listen to them for 10 or 15 mts.).

In continuation to the items mentioned in the post No.554, now, the video files of Chy. Jyothirmayi and Chy. Sai Meghana, who, in their progress, sang 'Prakkala nilabadi-Kharaharapriya-Triputa' Kriti efficiently along with the brief Ragalapana, creative and intricate mathematical Swarakalpana to the odd-starting point of Tala (each time they have started with the creative-swara and concluded with the mathematical-swara) are uploaded to ‘youtube’ and the respective urls are furnished hereunder for the benefit of the interested aspirants. amsharma
01. https://youtu.be/33eohbaKLYo
02. https://youtu.be/TClPWVoj78o

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20171202:
Till now the classical music is taught in an irresponsible system in which the poor aspirant is made absolutely dependent upon the teacher. In this suicidal system the poor aspirant is compelled to depend upon the whims and fancies of the teacher while the teacher himself sings at his convenience and makes the aspirant also sing along with him. Thus, the aspirant has to listen to the teacher’s singing and repeat the same by singing along with the teacher. The teacher will not give him any written material or audio-file or video-file but goes on teaching in the same manner a number of items or compositions. More over the teacher tells that Manodharma Sangeeta could neither be taught nor learnt but could be obtained only by the aspirant himself by learning a number of Varnas and Kritis and hard-working on his own.

But all my extensive experiments in this respect undoubtedly proved this system absolutely wrong and paved way to find a very strict logical method in learning our music. In this modern ‘time-bound and result-oriented’ system of learning our music while the teacher’s role is minimised to less than 1% the role of the aspirant is maximised to more than 99%. In this logical system everything is written in notation and the aspirant has to rely upon and work hard independently as much as he can with the help of notated pdf files, audio-files and video-files, Key-board and Metronome. The under mentioned disciples have, thus, been working vigorously on their own under my supervision on telephone (in which I never sing Sa or Pa even once in any of their classes) and attained this high standard as mentioned hereunder.

In continuation to the items mentioned in the post No.564, now, the video files of Chy. Jyothirmayi (11 yrs - 8397104646) and Chy. Sai Meghana (23 yrs - 8106132115) who have worked on their own with the help of the notated PDF files and audio/video files and sung 'Himadrisuthe-Kalyani-Adi (Trisra-gati) Kriti efficiently along with brief Ragalapana, creative and intricate mathematical Swarakalpana are uploaded to 'youtube' and the respective urls are furnished hereunder for the benefit of the interested aspirants. amsharma

Chi. Sai Meghana: https://youtu.be/DXrE1gDhu7Y
Chi. Jyothirmayi: https://youtu.be/iOT2jWgSNQc

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Eventhough all the music-teachers are always used to teach saralees, jantas, datus, hecchu-sthayi-swaras and taggu-sthayi-swaras in Adi-tala only they introduce all the 7 different Talas and Jaatis in Alankaras only but do not introduce the Gatis at all. Pitiably enough none of them is ready even to give any logical explanation in this respect. By very blindly following several such traditional quantitative methods but not logical at all many are not aware that, by all this, many of our kids from several generations are pitiably becoming musically handicapped. Eventhough I also did in the same manner in my Govt. service as full-time music-teacher in the absence of any academic supervision, later, I became aware of this truth in my extensive experiments only which gave me several sleep-less nights for my irresponsibility and inactiveness in this respect.

At this juncture the Almighty opened my eyes and blessed me with an un-believable and amazing qualitative methods in learning our music and, since then only, I am able to serve our society truly and truthfully.

In this modern and logical method, mostly, the rhythmical abilities of the aspirant make him progressive. Eventhough my teachers did not teach me even the barest minimum odd-trisra-gati I was compelled, somehow, to learn it on my own being a professional-violin-accompanist. Even in my service I did not teach this to my students as this was not prescribed in any of the syllabi countrywide in those days. But, in my later experiments as I found this most essential to teach the aspirants even the barest minimum-odd-trisra-gati I made it compulsory to learn this to all our students which brought out many amazing results.

Later, I have started to possibly initiate the students in rendering all the odd-gatis and, among them, Chi. Shankara Aditya from Warangal became able to render all the Jati-alankaras @ 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 units per beat which are already uploaded to ‘youtube’. Now, he had recently rendered the Kalyani-Adi-Varna-Purvanga @ 2-3-4-5-6-7-8 notes per beat and Uttaranga @ 4-6-8 notes per beat and, now, they are uploaded to ‘youtube’ and the respective urls are furnished hereunder for the benefit of the interested aspirants.

I shall be very happy if any music-teacher also makes his disciples sing in the same manner, uploads the respective video files to YouTube and furnish here the respective urls for the benefit of the interested aspirants. Amsharma

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... RC7ejO9y-6

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In continuation to the post 565, today, I have uploaded the videos for the benefit of the interested aspirants in which Chi. Shankara Aditya sang both the Purvanga and Uttaranga of the Saveri-Adi-Varna @ 3-4-5-7-9 Gatis in different ways. The link is furnished hereunder:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... RC7ejO9y-6

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In continuation to the items mentioned in the post No.565, now, the video files of Chy. Jyothirmayi (11 yrs - 8397104646) and Chy. Sai Meghana (23 yrs - 8106132115) who have worked on their own with the help of the notated PDF files and audio/video files and sung 'Nijamaithe-Bhairavi-Triputa” Kriti efficiently along with brief Ragalapana, creative and intricate mathematical Swarakalpana are uploaded to 'youtube' and the respective urls are furnished hereunder for the benefit of the interested aspirants. amsharma

Kum. Sai Meghana: https://youtu.be/Sl1iT4FZ2ug
Kum. Jyothirmayi: https://youtu.be/haRU9YTMg0A

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In general, many of the musicians, being deficient in rhythmical intricacies and having an allergic feeling to deal with the mathematical Svarakalpana, in particular, prefer to mostly manage with Ragalapana and also declare that Ragalapana is the criteria of our music. But, my umpteen experiments in this respect as a reliable teacher, I have found that singing the mathematical Svarakalapana alone is the gate-way to Manodharma Sangeeta which paves way in shaping an efficient singer or even a reliable teacher within a short time.

In our Tamilian brothern, while the noble persons like our brother-member, sbala, strived hard to learn ‘Talaprastara’ and efficiently define it in making it easier to other aspirants, some other conservative, egoistic and selfish gentlemen also strived hard in making more harm than good like ignoring the invaluable symbolised notation of Subbarama Dikshitar, ignoring to modify even the definition of Talaprastara in the music-syllabi, sparing no efforts to make videos of the rare finger techniques of the famous instrumentalists like the Violin wizards, MSG, LGJ, MC etc., for the posterity and running away from the responsibility of inculcating the knowledge of Manodharma Sangeeta in the aspirants but to wantonly and wastefully elongate the quantitative process of learning music for a number of years. But, some musicians have also brought out some youtube videos in respect of some of the aspects of Manodharma Sangeeta and they are:

https://youtu.be/sUOJATvXSM4

https://youtu.be/cYBailNsxSU

https://youtu.be/EGXTMjWhn6k

https://youtu.be/vw79zXKn03E

https://youtu.be/1Yd_ZqkUCxg

https://youtu.be/899QpbI7QV4

https://youtu.be/EQzLaJSIOS8

https://youtu.be/LqLlCNNnb20

https://youtu.be/KvLp-glhZyk

https://youtu.be/ryOWbBh-06E?list=RDryOWbBh-06E

https://youtu.be/FPBtCrwzYb8?list=RDFPBtCrwzYb8

In my extensive experiments upon the qualitative methods under a ‘time-bound and result-oriented plan’ in learning our music while the criteria is singing the mathematical and creative Svarakalpana even before the completion of learning Varnas within the span of 12 months I have found that the teacher must initiate the aspirant to regularly practice certain rhythmical exercises to later enable him proceed further managing with different exercises set in different Gatis. Even later, just like in learning the cycling in which way the teacher should not cycle but initiates the aspirant cycles, even in music, the teacher, even without singing Sa or Pa even once in any of the classes, must provide the needed notations, audio-files and video-files and initiate the aspirant work more and more on his/her own. In music, how much duration the teacher sings himself and makes the aspirant also follow him in singing that much the aspirant incurs the loss in utilising his instinctive abilities in learning the music.

Unfortunately, none of the above musicians did provide the aspirant any notations or audio-files or video-files to rely upon and practice regularly more and more along with them on his/her own. When I have provided them in a graded manner to our kids and initiated them to proceed they worked more and more on their own and became able to sing both creative and mathematical Svarakalpana and brief Ragalapana also within one year (refer the playlist ‘AMS-Jyothirmayi, Sai Meghana and Akhil’ in ‘youtube.com/user/msakella’ and observe). amsharma

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In continuation to the post No.561. now, the respective videos of the Begada-Varna sung by Chi. Chennu Akhileshwar both in Chaturashra and Trisra-gatis very efficiently are uploaded to youtube and the respective urls are furnished hereunder.

https://youtu.be/yYp9QhEDyM8
https://youtu.be/lPvY-YbE3bk

If the music-teachers are that efficient and honest in shaping our kids as gems we can certainly find many talented students to do the same and make our music field shine above all other systems of music. In the same manner, all the 70+ kids of our music institute ’Swara Bhangima’ at Secunderabad are able to sing like this very efficiently and all our teachers always strive hard to maintain these standards. But, how many of the other employed-music-teachers in the music institutions are doing like this in shaping our kids as gems is a big question? Even if I, since a long time, have been asking them to do the same and furnish the respective urls here in this column for the benefit of the aspirants our music-teachers are so great that everybody tries only to turn a deaf-ear in this respect but does nothing even to prove his/her efficiency and honesty. amsharma

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In continuation to the post No.567, today, I have uploaded the videos to youtube for the benefit of the interested aspirants in which Chi. Shankara Aditya sang the Purvanga of the Bhairavi-Ata-Varna @ 3-4-5-7-9 notes-per-beat @ 50 beats-per-minute and the Uttaranga @ 4-6-8 npb @ 50 bpm. The links are furnished hereunder.

I shall be very happy if any music-teacher also makes his disciples sing in the same manner, uploads the respective video files to YouTube and furnish here the respective urls for the benefit of the interested aspirants. amsharma

https://youtu.be/4CLyxJy1jbQ
https://youtu.be/RsCAIcOmRaY

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Many extensive experiments undoubtedly revealed that Manodharma Sangita could very easily be acquired within one year, even before learning the first Kriti basing upon a logical and step-wise plan. But, our highly selfish music-teachers will not follow this and honestly help the poor aspirants and their parents as they want to earn more by elongating the process for many years and conveniently escape throwing the responsibility of learning Manodharma Sangita upon the poor aspirants themselves.

My disciples, Chy. Jyothirmayi (12 yrs - 8397104646) and Chy. Sai Meghana (24 yrs - 8106132115), whom I have just been initiating without singing myself even Sa or Pa in any of the classes since last 11 months from March, 2017, have very recently sang a mini concert on 20180104 successfully in our ‘Sampradaya-celebrations’ with a Varna both in Chaturashra and Trisra gatis, ‘Prakkalanilabadi’ along with brief Ragalapana and intricate Swarakalpana and another Kriti in Hindola-raga. The same has been uploaded to youtube and the respective url is furnished hereunder for the benefit of the interested aspirants. amsharma

https://youtu.be/X-RnlnsOuZI

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If all the music-teachers initiate their students to learn music in this novel method of learning the aspirants will certainly become benefited by saving their invaluable time, energy and money. But, the efficient teachers who can manage both the Chaturashra and Trisra-gatis efficiently and who give high preference to the kids than the money can only follow this and help the aspirants and their respective parents which, in fact, becomes a million dollar question.

In continuation to the post No.561, the videos of Todi Varna both in Chaturashra and Trisra-gatis sung by Chi. Chennu Akhileshwar, who had completed his engineering education in Bangkok and returned to his native place here, are now uploaded and the respective urls are finished hereunder for the benefit of the interested aspirants. amsharma

https://youtu.be/3gAv9R4XL4M
https://youtu.be/qGclvjPejZc

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Being a professional performer and a professional teacher for more than 60 years I have more acquaintance than many others of our State with the Karnataka-classical-music-field which is entirely different with the other South Indian States.

Since last one year I have very actively been working by initiating the interested kids learn music quickly and efficiently in the modern methods of learning and also by writing various articles in my mother-tongue (not idiotic but idiomatic) Telugu through WhatsApp to enlighten our people. Interested persons can find them all in ‘msakella.wordpress.com’. amsharma

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In continuation to the post No.572, my disciples, Chy. Jyothirmayi (12 yrs - 8397104646) and Chy. Sai Meghana (24 yrs - 8106132115), whom I have been initiating without singing myself even Sa or Pa in any of the classes since last10 months and who are progressing with the help of the notations and audio-files I have supplied they have started the first Varna in Natakuranji (video dt. 20170517) and proceeded further with all the 8 other Varnas and Swarajati. In the meantime they have also become able to sing the mathematical and creative Swarakalpana and, later, also learnt Kritis, on their own, in the Ragas Kalyani, Mohana, Hindola, Hamsadhvani, Shreeranjani, Kharaharapriya, Kalyani, Bhairavi and Shankarabharana along with brief Ragalapana and mathematical and creative Swarakalpana. Now, the video-file of their Sarojadalanetri-Shankarabharana is uploaded to youtube and the respective url is furnished hereunder for the benefit of the aspirants. amsharma

https://youtu.be/6cEXe4a2oEM'

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