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Sep 14, 2009 Guitar Lessons

bansuri(flute) beginner. need tips on buying / learning?

Hi,
I want to learn to play the bansuri and also some classical music.
I already play the guitar. After doing some reasearch on the net I found out that a G scale 25 inch bansuri is ideal for beginners (knowyourraaga.com).
1.What should I tell the the shopkeeper? (I mean how will he understand ehat I need)
2. Any good shops in bangalore where I can buy it?
3. I plan to learn the Lessons Online (free).. any suggestions for good sites?

Music via Internet…

There is nothing like music, which enchants human beings. Nothing can equalise the pleasure which we get while listening to old Tamil songs in the darkness of the night. It is quite true when one says that music is a boat which helps us cross the sea of suffering. Whether it is carnatic music, film songs or western music, they all take us to a happy atmosphere and mood.

There are plenty of ways and opportunities to learn music now.

Are you interested in learning carnatic music? There is no need to worry if you don’t have a preceptor. It is enough if you have a computer and an internet connection. Right from your home you can learn music…through the internet. In the fast developing world of communication, you can learn music from any part of the world.

Mr. Dhasarathy, from Chennai, is teaching flute for the past one year, only through this method. He is working with Chennai Life Insurance Corporation. His guru Mr. Raghu and he have been conducting classes successfully in flute for nearly 200 students through the internet.

When asked how he was inspired to teach flute through the internet, he said, ”Both my guru and myself wanted to do something different…then an idea struck us, why not teach flute through the internet. This thought paved the way for such a method”.

So an advertisement was issued asking people, who were interested in learning flute, to contact them. This advertisement was very well received and they got a lot of mails, in fact, more than what they had expected.

At present, around 200 students are taking lessons through this novel method. The duo have students from Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai in India and also in Singapore and USA.

The students have been classified into three groups. The first group which is on to the basics, the second group which has progressed further, and the third group which is in the advanced level.

“Each and every student is being taught lessons through audio cassettes. We teach them how to play through Swaras by playing on the flute and recording it. This is then sent to them, and that makes it easier for them to learn,” says Mr. Dhasarathy.

When we asked him, whether the devotion and the close-knit relationship that the students had for their master is not lost in this process, he elaborated, ”Today’s youth do not have the time to go to a guru and learn for 4 hours, which was possible in the olden days. Today’s situation is such that studies are given top priority and hobbies/extra-curricular activities come second…and the eminent musicians also do not have the time to teach them. That’s why they are learning music through the audio and internet medium … they communicate with their teachers through e-mail and chat”.

Apart from this, his guru is exporting bamboo flutes to overseas students. He communicates daily for an hour with his students and clears their doubts. Thus a bond is established between them. He says proudly that the Chennai brothers Raghu and Ravi are his gurus and he has been learning for the past 5 years. Whatever he has learnt, he teaches others in a way which is simple and comprehensive.

Prior to learning the flute from the present gurus, he learnt from Kattankulathur Singarachariar (disciple of eminent flutist Mr. T.R.Mahalingam ) and from Thiruvarur Swaminathan (disciple of Mr. Ramani) for 2 years.

When we asked why he chose flute when there were other instruments like the veena, violin, he explained, ‘Right from my childhood I was interested in music. I have enjoyed listening to concerts by eminent musicians. Since i was suffering from asthma I could not learn vocal music. Then my family doctor casually suggested that learning some wind instrument will help in controlling my asthma problem and will also satisfy my interest in music”.

Thus started his lessons in flute. It is worth mentioning here that the learning of flute has given some relief to his asthmatic problem.

M.S.Venkatesh, who lives in Michigan, confidently says that the audio cassettes and the explanations his teacher sends through mail, are very useful to him. He adds that he will master the instrument before the end of this year.

Like him, Mrs. Harini Raghavan, who is a secretary of a famous and popular sabha in Bangalore, is his internet student. She has written a letter to him mentioning that his lessons are simple and easy to understand.

When asked what his next step would be, he said with confidence that his aim is to take his teaching to all the music lovers worldwide.

For more information contact:

ktdasarat99@yahoo.com
ktdasarat99@vsnl.net

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Prague Philharmonic Orchestra $44.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra was established in 1995 by Czech musicians with the German conductor Friedemann Riehle. The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra quickly developed into one of the leading orchestras for CD-recording in Europe. The orchestra plays about 200 recording sessions every year. The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra works with labels such as Decca, EMI, Sony BMG and many international film studios. Soloists like Jonas Kaufmann and Sol Gabetta have recorded CDs with the orchestra. The New Years Concerts of the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Friedemann Riehle are a highlight of the Prague music scene. Also the Prague philharmonic orchestra has taken part in Marcos Witt’s CD “Sinfonía del alma” in 2007. Riehle was born in Stuttgart. After violin lessons at a young age he studied classical guitar in Stuttgart as well as orchestra conducting at the Meistersinger Academy in Nuremberg and in Vienna at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (now Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien).

Robert Phillips (Guitarist) $57.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Phillips (born July 26, 1953 in New York City) is an American classical guitarist. Phillips began his musical training at age 8 on the accordion. He began to teach himself the guitar at age 12. He did not work under a teacher until 1967, when he began to learn finger style folk guitar. After one year of lessons, Phillips outpaced his teacher, who suggested that he study classical guitar.

South African Singer-Songwriters: David Kramer, Brandon October, Farryl Purkiss, Mpho, Cand ce Hillebrand, Arno Carstens, Koos Du Plessis $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: David Kramer, Brandon October, Farryl Purkiss, Mpho, Candîce Hillebrand, Arno Carstens, Koos Du Plessis, Andrew Schär. Excerpt: David Kramer (born June 27, 1951) is a South African singer, songwriter, playwright and director, most notable for his musicals about the Cape Coloured communities, and for his early opposition to apartheid. Kramer was born in Worcester, South Africa to a furniture merchant and a hairdresser, and spent his formative years in Worcester. His brother, John Kramer, became an artist known for his oil-on-canvas portrayal of cafés, stores and houses standing in the sharp sunlight of sleepy towns. The Kramer family name (originally Karavelnik) was adopted by his grandfather who arrived in South Africa from Lithuania in 1899, and made a living as a salesman (walking from farm to farm selling goods). During Kramer’s stay in Worcester he had some music lessons with the classical composer Cromwell Everson. He played in a South African band called The Creeps in the 1960s, and then travelled to England in 1971 to study textile design at Leeds University. He began his music career in the mid 1970′s, singing at folk clubs and campus concerts in South Africa. David pioneered the use of Cape Afrikaans and South African English in his lyrics, often using both languages in the same song. He focused on small town South Africa and employed a gritty realism and dark satire to tell his stories and describe his characters. In his stage performances he portrayed himself as a rural everyman who traveled the dusty roads of small town South Africa with an old bicycle and a cheap guitar. He sang in the Boland patois of his youth and told stories and sang songs in both languages. His first album BAKGAT! issued by Mountain Records was released in…

The Outlaws (Uk Band) Members: Ritchie Blackmore $9.34 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Hugh “Ritchie” Blackmore (born 14 April 1945 in Weston-super-Mare) is an English guitarist, who was a founding member of hard rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. Blackmore left Deep Purple first in 1975 and for a second time in 1993 due to a growing rift between Blackmore and other members in spite of renewed commercial success. His current band is the Renaissance-influenced Blackmore’s Night. Blackmore was born at Allandale Nursing Home, Weston-super-Mare, England, but moved to Heston, Middlesex at the age of two. He was 11 when he got his first guitar. His father bought it for him on certain conditions: “He said if I was going to play this thing, he was either going to have someone teach it to me properly, or he was going to smash me across the head with it. So I actually took the lessons for a year classical lessons – and it got me on to the right footing, using all the fingers and the right strokes of the plectrum and the nonsense that goes with it.” Whilst at school he did well at sports including the Javelin. Blackmore left school at age 15 and started work as an apprentice radio mechanic at nearby Heathrow Airport. He was given guitar lessons by Big Jim Sullivan. He was influenced in his youth by early rockers like Hank Marvin. His playing improved and in the early 1960s he started out as a session player for Joe Meek’s music productions and performed in several bands. He was a member of the instrumental combo, The Outlaws, and backed Heinz (playing on his top ten hit “Just Like Eddie”), Screaming Lord Sutch, Glenda Collins and Boz among others. While working for Joe Meek, he got to know engineer Derek Lawrence, who would later produce Deep Purple’s first three albums. With organist Jon Lord he co-founded the hard rock group D… More:

Tool Members $10.55 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor, Paul D’amour. Excerpt: Adam Jones Adam Thomas Jones (born January 15, 1965) is a three time Grammy Award -winning Welsh-American musician and visual artist, best known for his position as the guitarist for Grammy-Award winning band Tool . Jones has been rated the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time by the Rolling Stone and placed 9th in Guitar World ‘s Top 100 Greatest metal Guitarists. Jones is regularly credited for a majority of Tool’s music videos . Biography Early years Jones was born in Park Ridge, Illinois , raised in Libertyville, Illinois , and played violin in elementary school. He was accepted into the Suzuki program , and continued to play violin through his freshman year in high school. He then began to play an acoustic bass for three years in an orchestra. In addition to playing classical music, Jones played bass guitar in the band Electric Sheep , with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine , until Jones moved to California (Morello soon followed). According to both of them, the band was quite unpopular at the time. Jones never received traditional guitar lessons, but instead learned by ear. Film work Jones was offered a film scholarship but declined and chose to move to Los Angeles to study art and sculpture. His focus of interest shifted to film , and he began to work as a sculptor and special effects designer, where he learned the stop-motion camera techniques he would later apply in Tool’s music videos, such as “Sober ” (on which he collaborated with Fred Stuhr), “Prison Sex “, “Stinkfist “, “Ænema “, “Schism “, “Parabola ” and Vicarious . He graduated in 1987. After graduation, he went to work at Rick Lazzarini’s Character Shop. During the next couple of years, he worked the TV

Venezuelan Cuatro Players: Fredy Reyna, Hern N Gamboa, Cheo Hurtado, Nil Lara, Juan Carlos Salazar $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Fredy Reyna (April 3, 1917 – March 26, 2001) was a Venezuelan musician, arranger and performer, regarded as the indisputed master of the Venezuelan cuatro, which he elevated to the level of a concert instrument, and one of his country’s most important cultural figures in the 20th century. Fredy Reyna was born in Caracas, Venezuela, April 3, 1917. From a very young age he showed great curiosity and interest in art in all its manifestations. His father, Don Federico Reyna, cultivated several arts and was an amateur musician, photographer and painter. This influenced the young Fredy in his work and life. Early in his life, he received the rudiments of music from his father at the piano. In 1933, he started private guitar lessons from Raul Borges. At the age of 18 Fredy Reyna enrolled in the Escuela de Musica y Declamación in Caracas (today called “Conservatorio José Ángel Lamas”), where he completed the first four (of six) years of classical guitar studies. His bright intelligence and his necessity to experiment with all the sounds he could muster, quickly branded him as a bad student for not being able to easily assimilate the rigorous musical study methods of that time. In 1936, enrolled at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas, from where obtained a degree as Professor of Fine Arts in 1939. The young Fredy ReynaIn 1939, having graduated as a professor of Fine Arts and Drawing, he began teaching classes in the Escuela Experimental Venezuela. In 1943 his first son is born, Federico Reyna, then in 1945 his first daughter is born, Tatiana Reyna, then in 1948, his second son is born, Maurice Reyna and in 1965 his second daughter was born, Anita Reyna. Between 1947 and 1948, he travelled to Paris with his wife where he studied stagecraft…

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