Voice Culture – Breath as the Fuel for Voice Production – Part 5
Music teachers often like to use the term , “sing with breath support” or sing from the “nabhi” (belly area) when teaching students. These terms are quite abstract and a proper understanding of the physiological mechanism of breathing and posture will go a long way in helping with good tonal production and ability to sustain [...]
Voice Culture- First things first. – Part 3
Fundamentals of Voice Production Singing can be considered to be a highly energized mode of expression involving emotions and an intent to convey some feeling. When we see some of the greatest singers of our times, this is evident. Take any one of the great masters, MS Subbulakshmi, GN Balasubramanian, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, ML Vasanthakumari, [...]
Dr Sriram Parasuram teaches a Kabir Bhajan
Acharyanet is happy to release a lesson from Dr Sriram Parasuram teaching a beautiful Kabir Bhajan. The rendition is based on a Hindustani Raag – a combintation of Raag Bihag and Bilaval.
Dr Sriram Parasuram talks Bhajans
Dr Sriram Parasuram is an accomplished vocalist, instrumentalist and teacher of Indian classical music. He is well versed in both the Hindustani and Carnatic styles of music. He is renowned not only for his concert performances, but also his lecture-demonstrations which are equally compelling and a veritable crowd puller. An engineering graduate with a business [...]
Voice Culture – Lets talk some more. – Part 2
We started off with some general concepts of what voice culture means to Carnatic music singers in our previous post. We even posted a nice long list of ‘DON’Ts’ while singing. This may seem funny to many people, but jokes aside, most of us have been guilty of some portion of the mistakes stated in [...]
Voice Culture – What it all means? – Part 1
Voice Culture is a common term heard these days. Pavarotti knew its secrets as did MS Subbulaxmi. For us lesser mortals, what does it mean?Fundamentally voice culture refers to the methodology adopted to train or control the voice to sing effectively. In Carnatic music we also call this ‘sadhaka’. Voice culture is very important for [...]