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.
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!
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
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 !!! 🎉🎉👌👌❣❣
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.
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.
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. ☺☺☺☺☺☺.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.!!
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...
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.
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 :))
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
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.
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 UA-cam to express and connect .....धन्यवाद ।thanks.namaskaram नमस्कारम ।।
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
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
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.
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 ).
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
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!
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.
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 _/|\_
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.
Could you please teach from the a,b,c of music... a kind of "Shastriya sangeetam for dummies" like me. I never got an opportunity to learn music. Now no time. It is really helpful.
Cursive writing analogy to gamakam was just brilliant!
thank you
totally agree
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.
vinay ms thank you
Bharatiya sangeetam is the gift of India to the world! Gamakams is the very essence of Karnataka sangeetam!
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!
Jacob Cherian Thank you
hi.unka.extraordinary.coaching.semma.super.prillend.pakka.excellend.excedly.super.good.good.voice
Thank you
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
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 !!! 🎉🎉👌👌❣❣
Thank you for the bouquets and the brickbats . :) Both are welcome.
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.
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.
Thank you
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. ☺☺☺☺☺☺.
Mam thanks for your voice. Really so sweet voice.
I am from Mahoba Utter Pradesh
Sandeep Rao
Thank you
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.
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.
Murthy Garu, Who is the presenter? Apologies for my ignorance.
Also, does she teach. IF yes, where?
Thanks.
Is she Ranjani sivakumar?
excellent knowledge in simple terms kudos Ranjani
mam konchem telugulo kuda cheppandi
This is definitely is the best finest lesson on music 🎵🎶 Gamakam 🙏🙏
Thank you
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. 🙏
Thank you
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!
Thank you
God bless you with lots of love and goodness for serving classical music
Adbhutham
Very good explanation medam
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
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.
Awesome Gamakam practice lessons! Beautifully explained you Mrs. Ranjani Sivakumar
Very valuable information 👍👌 TQ so much mam
Beautifully explained mam, thank you very much for GAMAKAM practice.
Mahendra Naikwade thanks
Ranjani Sivakumar
Sri gurvugariki namaskaramandi.
Excellent introduction to Gamakam.
Thank you
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.!!
thank you !!
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May God bless you always
@@universalphilosophy8081 thank you
You have a good Handwriting Madam..! By the way, very good articulation in a lay men language.. Thank you
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Sathish Arumugam thanks
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...
Awesome! This is billiant stuff!...I wish i learned these much sooner from gurus like you than now after all these years...thank you so much m'am!
Your explanation is as graceful as you are! I am very impressed with your melodious voice and your grace. Thank you for the explanation.
Thank you
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.
Vid Chandraiah thanq
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.
You are an excellent teacher too,very impressive!
Thank you
Madam you are soo Beautiful nd your voice is 👏👏👏👏👏😇
Thank you so much for such wonderful insight about music! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😊
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 :))
Your analogies are top class.Explinations leave no doubts in the minds of listeners
Thank you
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
excellent...request you to kindly post first sarali varisai with GAMAKAMS please...
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.
Thank you.
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 UA-cam to express and connect .....धन्यवाद ।thanks.namaskaram नमस्कारम ।।
Thank you madam for your valuable explanation........
Basic principles ofCarnatic music is vividly given by Smt. explaining Gamakam etc.,Following them sounds good. CPV.RATNAM
sriram
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You are awesome ! Thank you for your teachings . In my language gama means scale . Thank you so much i love tambura sound so much !
Thank you
Thanks
Beautiful and very very happy ,maam . Thank you very much to make a layman like me to feel very very happy
thank u madam,. very authentic teaching and way of teching style is excellent.
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
chelvapilla gunupati thanks
excellent knowledge you gave to music listeners to understand the classical music when we hear
Rajesh Pappachan thank you.
Beautiful explanation. One sugetion only. When you speak please keep the sruthi box in a low volume. Congrates.
Very good explanation. Thanks a lot. Please go ahead. All the best.
very good rendition......best wishes...from Doha
Sundar Vadhanam thanks
Thanks .. More about the gamakam .
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
Very clear explanation👌👌👌
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.
Excellent presentation who is this sweet girl with a familiar face
If you get the right Teacher..learning happens. Amazing Madam
I very much appreciated your insight and detailed explanations.
barkup atree thank you.
Every instructive demonstration lecture. I wish there were more demonstrations, interspersing the lecture more frequently. 👌🏻
Gururaj BN thank you
How come I've not seen this so far? This seems a great channel for music learners. Thanks for the theory and practicals.
Aruna Ram Kumar thanks.
very greatly narrates GAMAKAM by you madam.......brilliant.
KUMAR BHASKAR thanks
Beautiful explanation. Melodious voice.
Excellent Madam.. You are explanation is very good.
finnya7 thanks
Your very very beautiful madam and also the way of your teaching style.
thank you
Wonderful Cursive writing and Explanation.....Better to provide some other classes on Gamakam....
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 ).
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
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Ranjani Sivakumar thank you Medum
awesome
Prabhu Bhushan thanks.
Ranjani Sivakumar ..... Medam Greetings from vijayawada
What book are you referring- Glad to see something was actually written in देवनागरी । I would appreciate if you can tell me where can I get that book.
Very well done you are a gifted person. All best wishes. To get you as a teacher will be a divine gift
Johny Varghese thanks
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!
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.
Thank you
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wonderful explanation, ma'am, thank you very much!
Mam can you please explain these gamakams in detail... plzzz...
No words to explain how well you have excelled in teaching it so well
Lovely :D helps Hindustani people appreciate Carnatic better
Although GAMAKAs is ancient technique, it was completely forgotten. Thanks to B.M.Shrikantaiah for reintroducing GAMAKAs into the Indian Music system.
Thanks for posting a nice concept about Gamaka. Tambura volume is litttle higher and disturbing. Kindly consider in upcoming videos.
Subramaniam mylangam ramadas thanks
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 _/|\_
Wonderful explanation and beautiful handwriting :). That itself projects the personality. Enjoyed listening!!
Haricharan Maramraj thanks
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.
Girish Chandra Ananthanarayana thank you
ms sivakumar
the vocal snippets were great.
do you give concerts?
Balakrishnan S Thanks. Yes
you are a perfect professional teacher. Super talented
Gururaja K S Rao thank you
Namaste, please make some more videos. Thank you in advance
Super ❣️
Superb explanation, who is she?
I am musically illiterate. Yet if you explain it well - as you do - I can understand. Many thanks, ma'm
Thanks for the presentation ! very informative.
Awesomeness mam … tq 🙏🙏👏👏👏
Thank you
That was amazing. You explained very well for laymen like me... Thank you very much.
amazing video! superb detail
Super
Thank you
Though i have heard about Gamakam, no in this detail, Good learning for me!!!! Thank you so much.
Hari Das thank you
Very nice! Some more demonstration would have been even better:-).
Prajesh Bhattacharya thanks
Could you please teach from the a,b,c of music... a kind of "Shastriya sangeetam for dummies" like me. I never got an opportunity to learn music. Now no time. It is really helpful.
thank u mam...what an voice👏👏👏
Excellent introduction.. Thank you..!!
Ananda Teertha thank you
Thanks for the effort to educate laymen rasikas and responding to comments .
Thanks.
Excellent explanation..great
it is so nice.. you presented it well. Thanks
Thank you :)
U only explained well. Great