Chords Search in Carnatic Notation

[sunson]

One of the major problems I see with people who learn Carnatic is their confusion about "absolute pitch" in Western and hence the lack of enthusiasm or motivation to try out 'chords'. So I wrote this Chords Search with Carnatic Notations.

Comments

[gerani1248]

ya. its quite a problem i think. i mean, i usually tune my sa to d sharp. during the winter now, its at d because i dont like my strings held too tightly, i need room to slide and pull. ...

[sunson]

The idea of 'kattai' is amazing. Its quite flexible. For singers, even more! I heard that some female singers start at something like 6 kattai and as they grow old, they end up in 2 kattai or somesuch. and then there is this _really_ cute voice that sings along with them (vocal support) at the same kattai but in the next octave... it sounds soooo... sexy! D K Pattammal has this really sexy vocal support voice singing with her. Do you know who is the vocal support for D.K.Pattammal?

similarly, have you heard any of the later songs sung by M S Subbulakshmi? She sings at a low kattai with 'Radha Vishwanath' doing that sexy-voice thing! ooohhhh...

[gerani1248]

sexy voice? indian? eww...

haha jk. you mean low and husky or something? i should try to listen to some.. its hard to get good carnatic music here. all indian stores only have movie music, which sucks. i usually go to www.musicindiaonline.com for everything. its pretty good, thought its bharatnatyam section is quite limited.

i really dont like it when old women sing in that fake voice. it sounds like a chubby doll. very soft and bleh. is that what you're talking about?

[sunson]

No no! I meant the sexy-voice of Radha Vishwanath... She must be 30-something... her voice sounds like 19-something. You get the idea :)

you mean low and husky or something?

No, I mean the combination of low-and-husky (the old woman) _and_ this sexy voice (high-and-unhusky :D) makes it sound good overall.

Let me know if you need yem-pee-threez. I can give you some :)

The Chords

[anonymous]

This is a very coherently and logically written lesson in sruti. great.
My curiosity is what are notes in carnatic music that constitute the sruti tone (are they sa pa .sa) or when you say sa g3 and pa why this combination. Can we have more notes in the sruti tone.

Raman viswanath
ramanviswanath@yahoo.com

[anonymous]

Dude, The article on chords search in carnatic notation is good.

The chords link is broken

[anonymous]

Hi i would love to check out what you have put out but the link is broken

Re: The chords link is broken

[sunson]

Hi,

Sorry to say, all the useful things I'd coded for music went away when I lost my little hosted server. Reviving the music related tools is on my agenda but no where in sight until end of this year.

440 Hz

[anonymous]

Perhaps someone has already pointed this out, but it's the middle A that is 440 Hz, not the middle C. Pl. correct this in an otherwise good article.

Re: 440 Hz

[sunson]

You're right. It's the middle A that is 440 Hz.