Tutorial for Alaapana playing |Practical Ideas to create Manodharma | Watch And Play Series

[@malaviswanathan]

Manodharma is an intuitive exercise. It can be taught less but learnt more through listening and observing our Great Gurus. In this video I have tried to give a few simple ideas to catch the essence of Alapana and build over it through listening to various compositions and musicians. Best wishes

[@rajgcgreets]

So many aalaap variation tips for all of us is so useful...am trying all of them parallely in violin 🙏🙏Thnks soop much madam 🙏🙏🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Best wishes Raj

[@shylalokesh2121]

This is amazing madam such a easy way of teaching to the student who attempts his or her manodharma with fear. Hats of to you madam.

[@malaviswanathan]

Best wishes Shyla

[@suseelamanidhar1928]

Thank you so much for your efforts in giving good guidance for learning manodharma sangeetam. It's yet another excellent tutorial. Grateful to you

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks and best wishes Suseela

[@lakshmanprasad2798]

Thank you for sharing. Well structured. Complex concepts explained in a comprehensive and easy to understand manner.

[@malaviswanathan]

Thank you

[@nimmy5718]

Another treasure trove of a tutorial on alapana. You have done an amazing job of teaching it through simple phrases that we have all learned from our early finger exercises through varnams. A year ago I would have been terribly afraid even to dream of attempting an alapana. But with the tools you have provided over time, I am a bit more courageous to give alapana a try - though I am still at the stage of baby steps! Thanks for thinking of creative ways in helping us explore Manodharma.

[@malaviswanathan]

Manodharma, which is a creative exercise is very difficult to explain in simple terms. I have tried my best to bring it to the majority who struggle to get the concept. Hope it helps. Thanks for your comment

[@santhoshrajan3884]

Sashtanga namaskaram to this great teacher

[@malaviswanathan]

Best wishes

[@swarna3932]

Thank you somuch Maa....🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Swarna

[@malanarasimhan2898]

I just went through ur video fully and wrote the patterns first,and the alapana u played at the end of video is very easy to follow up also madam. No words to express.amazing mam.
Can u do some more ragams also like this mam in future videos.its request only madam
Later can u make tanam tutorial also mam

[@malaviswanathan]

Best wishes. Keep listening to Alapanas in different ragas with this concept in mind.

[@UlrichShaneCorrea]

Excellent !! 🙏🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Thank you

[@mangeshnar1200]

Wow, superb explanation. What a great guru you are, such good explanation for such complicated idea. So lucky to learn from you. 🙏🏽
These tutorials are like pearls and open for everyone to learn from it. 🙏🏽

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Mangesh

[@mamathanagaraja2065]

As always excellent teaching mam thank you very much 🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Best wishes

[@DavidSudhakar-oi9ml]

🏵️ Thank you Madam 🏵️

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks

[@geethabalasupramaniyan4675]

Explained in a brilliant way. Thanks for the post🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Geetha

[@sabigiri456]

wonderful teaching mam . really excellent teaching mam 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Sabitha

[@vaidehijcmanjcman8108]

Thank you so much mam. Wonderful teaching mam.

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Vaidehi

[@VeenaLakshmi609]

You are a Great Guru Mam 🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Best wishes Lakshmi

[@tharakeswariadv1247]

You are a perfect GURU mam. No words to say

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Thara

[@prabhasrikanth]

Thank you very much mam. We learn both the habd dynamics and as well as details of Ragam

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Prabha

[@lathamouli3489]

Gd mng mam. Tq so much. Its very helpful to me

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Latha

[@malanarasimhan2898]

Very nice mam

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Mala

[@padminipradhan8398]

Very helpful ma'am...thank you

[@malaviswanathan]

Best wishes Padmini

[@maniprerepa3709]

Helpful ideas ,nice way of teaching 🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Thank you

[@umamoorthy9561]

Another gem!! Thank you so so much. This will help us tremendously in taking baby steps to Manodharma!!

[@malaviswanathan]

Like I mentioned elsewhere, it is tough to put manodharma in a simple capsule. It is a vast topic and to bring it to a general easy understanding takes effort. Thanks Uma for your comment

[@bhagavathymohan3188]

Very useful video. Thank you so much mam

[@arunajanaki9997]

@@malaviswanathan very very helpful 😍🙏🏻

[@sharmilamahesh4809]

Thank you sooooo much Mam...

[@malaviswanathan]

Best wishes Sharmila

[@padmakumaravelu6852]

wonderful teaching mam 🙏🏻

[@malaviswanathan]

Best wishes Padma

[@padmakumaravelu6852]

So blessed to get your wishes mam 🙏🏻

[@janakiravisveena4590]

Nice... Tutorial for kanjadalayadakshi.. Kamalamanohari... Please

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Janaki

[@nivedhithasivaraju6456]

Please teach us taanam madam if you don't mind this alapana class is very helpful to VEENA students like me thankyou soo much guruvu gaaru please don't mind typing mistakes mam my English is weak

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Niveditha. Will do tanam after kalpana swaram.

[@nivedhithasivaraju6456]

TQ soo much madam

[@rasilaparikh]

Thank you so much Mam. You are excellent teacher. While I try to practice, my Veena I hear drag for 3 notes. But get very hard to create drag to hear at 4th notes and onwards. How do I improve that?

[@malaviswanathan]

Your strike needs to be stronger and one of the four notes should get oscillared

[@krishnakotti3101]

Much needed video mam🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Thank you

[@kamakshiumamaheswaran8875]

Nice teaching

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Kamakshi

[@msananthi5923]

Thank you so much mam🙏🙏🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Best wishes Ananthi

[@MeenaMeena-w4h]

Nice explanation.how can we play R in G as we play P in G.please explain.

[@malaviswanathan]

R in G will depend on the musical phrase, or the emotion you wish to convey. The Raga s grammar also matters as much as the creativity of the student.

[@rukminimadhukar1321]

👌🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Thank you

[@mamathanagaraja2065]

Mam my request is please make a tutorial on yare Rangan yare Krishna a mam

[@malaviswanathan]

Mamatha will try

[@mamathanagaraja2065]

Thank you mam 🙏

[@sunandananduri4153]

Very nicely explained🙏🙏it is a very useful video, I will definitely practice 🙏
I have a query - I can listen to a film song and play it on the veena without following the notation. This way, I have played many Bollywood songs on the veena. However , after a gap of maybe a month or so, if I try to play any of these Bollywood songs, I tend to make mistakes esp about the swara sthanas. One way to avoid making mistakes is to practice regularly -- but I am not able to practice all the songs that I know on a daily basis. So, when I sit down to play a certain song after a gap of time, I am making mistakes. Can you suggest any tip to avoid such mistakes other than daily / regular practice??

[@malaviswanathan]

I have mentioned this in the topic on muscle memory. It takes 3 weeks of practice, for the brain to store things. And thereafter monthly practice.. If that is not possible, then write down the notations and keep. That will help in remembering

[@sunandananduri4153]

@@malaviswanathan ok.... Thank you so much for the prompt reply 🙏

[@panchangambhagyalakshmi5529]

Thank you very much mam 🙏🙏

[@malaviswanathan]

Thanks Bhagya