What strikes me is that she has a very soft and sweet speaking voice but has a much stronger (but still sonorous without doubt) singing voice and how she shifts from one to another. I notice this in most Carnatic singers. Always made me wonder what their natural voices were.
One of the best explanations of Gamakams I have come across on YT!!!!! Thanks a ton for the information Mam!!! Your way of explanation and teaching is just amazing !!! 🎉🎉👌👌❣❣
You made it look so simple. I do church music and am very interested in carnatic music too. Your lesson on Gamagam is quite similar to riffs and runs you find in western classical. Look forward to more of such videos in the days to come. Videos between 10-15 minutes will just be right. God Bless!
I am trying to chant psalms from the Bible and it is ver hard for me. From that context, your explanation has given me a sense of education and enlightenment. Thank you madam.
A beautiful teaching of Gamakam. Expertly given explanation, could easily understood by even absolute beginers like me. The clarity is very much to be appreciated. Thanx to Mrs Ranjani. DR.K V MUrthy Hyderabad.
So much information in our music! Very educative.you way of explaining simple and superb .short phrases to illustrate.appears easy but not such a simple task.I have to revise many a time. Happy listening indeed! Balakrishnan
Beautiful handwriting!! The way the straight lines were drawn on that board, indicate good artist in her and probably that she is very good at science.!!
Please continue this rich and marvellous exploration of carnatic sangeetham further, listening to your lecture and demo help us, understand its structure and complexity or instil a curiosity to learn to sing and appreciate this great tradition. 🙏
Gamakam - Beautifully taken apart and put back together for the complete layman/ learner/rasika. Thank you! You are a rocking teacher too Ranjani ma'am!
So beautiful...brings ina great deal of awareness about gamakams and it is really helpful for new learners. Thanks a lot for sparing your time to record and post this...
Well, almost all about Gamakam! Thanks for the wonderful & useful post! You have rightfully pointed out that a musical instrument helps one 'visualise' gamakam. I would just add that 'string intruments' do that job wonderfully well (with perhaps, the exception of Santoor!). This also explains why intruments with 'fixed' notes like the Piano or Harmoniam are not suitable for classical Indian (Hindustani or Karnatak) music. There are of course, 'Pitch-Benders' provided in modern electronic musical instruments. But to use those to produce a rudimentary gamakam requires a lot of practice! Thanks once again.
Just great demonstration. i hv little knowledge in Music. When my daughter wanted to understand Gamakas I searched utube and lucky to get to see you video. very good clarity in teaching. Thanks
An excellent explanation. I am a student in the initial phases of learning and this knowledge is really very helpful. Thank you for putting it across so simply
Gamakas are alankara used in a mode of music. Some schools have more or less of these gamakas. It requires great restriction if not to distort the lyric. The destination rule is useful,for eg sometimes one goes straight to the point,other times one takes a scenic route. Finally gamakas are the signature of the performer.Very personal.
Great explanation. I had always thought am in handful to see notes as frequencies and gamakams as intermediate frequency to get Continuum. You explained the continuum geometrically (Cursive writing) which is elegant. Also seeing multiple connections and principle of least action (euler-lagrange approach) is fantastic. am Humbled !! Thank you.
Namaste mam, it's very much informative. Thanks for the clear demo. Keep uploading regarding classical music mam. You have very clear and melodious voice.
Wah wah wah Gamak loni madhuryanni 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍 entha chakkaga explained mam.!! . My humble pranamams to you ji 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌿 🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌸🌸🌿🌸🌸Thanks a lot mam. Richard Rao... Thanks a lot for uploading dis video. ☺☺☺☺☺☺.
Would be great to have a video with a detailed explanation of every individual gamakam Mam!! Would benefit of a lot of students, teachers and artists :))
The concept of Gamaka has been very well explained and demonstrated in very simple understandable terms. I am a harmonica player and often use some of these bridging and transitions techniques - but never knew the concepts and types of Gamakas. Thank you very much.
We donot know how Indian classical music was before Purandaradas renderings. Thete are 15 types of gamaks in Indian classical music. Hardly 2 to three gamaks whuch are present in the Indian music is practiced in the western music. Ever since Thyagaraya kruthies came to light gamakas of all 15 types are clearly known as they are rendered while singing. But the. Names of gamaks are not known to general public.
Beautiful girl. Pleasant manners, beautiful handwriting and deep knowledge of music and right pronunciation of both tamil and english. The "Tamil porali"s can never speak with such quality.
An another way of telling the meaning is the phenomenon (way) of flowing from Ga to Ma (with the same plucking). That is GaMakam. And the same phenomenon among other notes i.e. swarams has derived the same name Gamanam. This is in addition to meaning "that which goes (with the same plucking or meetu)". With the same plucking, changing the place on the fret. In case of wind instruments, with the same flow of wind and changing the swaradthaanaas
Thank u so much!! No words for your explanation, the beauty of this explanation is that even a non singer can understand what is a gamaka or gamakam _/|\_
Thanks much for your teaching on Gamakam. Your knowledge, singing and scholarship are all very pleasant as well as illuminating to musically illiterate like me. Best wishes, G V Chelvapilla
great mam I will urge you to talk more and more about our heritage ,culture ,music,dances ,painting, gods,paintings,languages and all covering whole India ...why I am saying this bcz you have unique way and discipline to explain even tougher things in lucidified way.....please dear ma'am continue your RU-vid to express and connect .....धन्यवाद ।thanks.namaskaram नमस्कारम ।।
I wish , this were a bit more elaborate ; of course, the element that render Carnatic music its particular flavour cannot be explained in mere 10 minutes. Still glad that I learned the names of 10 types of gamakas in 10 minutes (though the illustration of each type was too brief ).
Madam good explanation on gamakas. You should have explained little more on each and every type of gamaka with examples. Your voice is so sweet Thank you.
Brilliant. You are so graceful. Showed your video to my daughter who was highly appreciative. I really loved the analogy of the writing. Thanks for sharing. Please share more.
Very informative video many thanks. demonstrating the gamak initially in the video would work better, I feel. Music is aural, cannot be described. Notations are for later!
You explained it very well. From your explanation, I understand that some popular Gamakas are derived from famous musicians. I infer that every musician naturally develops their own Gamakas built into their voice. If so, why do musicians follow popular Gamakas? The reason might be that individuals may not have named their own Gamakas. Isn't that right?
Thank you very much for the comments. We would love to bring out more such friendly videos , if we could be funded for it. This one was funded by an organisation from the UK and was made keeping in min a very lay audience. Best wishes , ranjani Sivakumar
