Our Indian classical music has the great facility of speaking out the rhythms with your mouth. That is not the purpose because you don’t want to become a tabla player at the end of the day. When they say you’ve got to learn the tabla, what is the purpose? It’s not because you’ve got to play the actual instrument physically. But since I don’t have a basic understanding of the tabla, am I missing something? I am a singer and focusing on singing is what I believe I must do right now. But obviously that time is gone and past. Later on, I came to understand that learning the tabla is very important for any beginner. I didn’t have formal training in music as a child. The minute the process of decoding gets faster and faster, you start visualising those notes. Is there any exercise that helps you visualise notes better?Īll you have to do is start decoding every song and every sound that you hear – even the doorbell – immediately. So make that path interesting every time you compose. The path chosen by a note is the melody of your song. Some are interesting routes, scenic and beautiful that’s why it is a beautiful melody. Some are bad routes that’s why it is a bad melody. You can choose whether you want to go via Dharavi or whether you want to go via Dadar or whether you want to take a flight, go to Bangalore, come back to Pune and then drive to Kalina.
In Mumbai let’s say from Chembur you are going to Kalina. It’s like taking a journey inside the city where you live. The melody is the journey travelled by that LED pixel. But the first note and the last note alone do not make up the melody. įor all these routes, it is starting from one point and reaching the same point. So Sa–Pa is the simplest route, or it can take another route Sa-Re-Ga-Ma-Re-Pa or Sa-Ga-Re-Ni-Sa-Dha-Ni-Sa-Ga-Ma-Ga-Sa-Pa or Sa-Re-Sa-Ni-Dha-Pa-Ga-Ma-Re-Ga-Ma-Dha-Pa-Dha-Ma-Pa-Ga-Ma-Re-Ga-Ma-Pa. Now let’s say this pixel has to travel from Sa to Pa. You can imagine a melody as one LED pixel on a screen that glows and travels from one note to another. I’m writing a book in which I have described what is a melody. When you become strong in decoding the notes of a melodic pattern to its equivalent swaras (musical notes), and when your speed of communicating between the melody and its swaras starts getting faster and faster – almost instantaneous – that is when you start visualising notes. Is there a way to practise visualising notes?
When you see the notes in your mind’s eye, can a melody of your making be far away? Now, how does every musician get there? Shankar Mahadevan shares his way, here, in this conversation with Arnab Chakraborty. Practiced musicians possess that X-Ray vision. What we would see, then, are the musical notes that make up the melody. – Arnab Chakraborty, Singer and Music composer, Mumbai.Įvery melody is made of musical notes.
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