The Mridangam Explorative | Practice Session 1

The Mridangam classroom must be a charged space, but sometimes with the fast moving world, it gets more cerebral than experiential. This series is an effort to dial back the teaching methodology in Mridangam playing to one that organically transfers nuances in playing without verbally communicating.
In gratitude to my gurus Guruvayur Sri Dorai, Uuzhavoor Sri PK Babu and Nellai Sri A Balaji for passing on so generously this wonderful art form to me and enabling me to share it with a few friends in turn.
This video explores the phrase 'Tha Dhi Thakadhina Dhim Tha Dhim' and I'm joined in this session by my student Aryan Ramesh.
Cinematography/Edit: M Muthukrishnan, M Boopathy and Adharsh Devarajan
Venue: Sahrdaya Creative Spaces
Lighting Engineer: Sneha Sheejith
Special Thanks: Rithvik Raja, Vignesh Ishwar, TM Krishna, Ravi Kiran G, Shreya Devnath

[@arvind6592]

Remembering my childhood. Very nice 👌.

[@vikas16128]

Excellent 🙏🙏

[@vimallal4148]

great work

[@g.v.t.nbrothers3398]

Vera Levewl anna.... semmma.... inspired from this !

[@raghavrangaswamy5406]

This is truly first of its kind with best in class sound mixing 🙂 Wonderful ambience and definitely experiential than cerebral; thumbs up to the young boy for following his master really well!

[@PraveenKumar]

Thank you :)

[@user-dm2iw1pe2j]

​@@PraveenKumar namaskaram sir i would like to learn mridangam from you how can i meet you and talk with you can you give any info

[@bhadrinathvenkatachar2792]

I watched for first few minutes... It's very interesting🎉🎉
Kudos🎉🎉

[@Mukeshmukesh-sy7rp]

💥💯👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🫂 Great job

[@gonnabakutalataravi6917]

👏👏🙏

[@chandrantharayil4045]

❤

[@BALANBEATS]

usefull sir thank you

[@MeeraSreenarayanan]

I am here for the fourth time. Something so liberating about this process and playing.

[@PraveenKumar]

Very glad that it’s resonating with you!

[@chandrasekarannarasimmalu8181]

Amazing Mridangam teaching sir 🙏🙏🙏

[@PraveenKumar]

Thank you!

[@jayasankarm3691]

Excellent Class Sir...very much useful ❤

[@shreekaryadthore5271]

What a joy to listen. The interspersed silence gives it a meditative effect. Thank you.

[@PraveenKumar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@monodux]

This is absolutely brilliant. I love the format- reminds me of sitting across from my teachers when I was young. Thank you so much for posting!

[@sreeharimeledam1152]

Great session🙏🏻❤️

[@sunilKumar-cb4op]

Satakoti Namaskaram Praveen Sir. Thanks a lot for sharing this amazing Practice Session.

[@PraveenKumar]

🙏🏾

[@viswanathanramamurthy5666]

Wonderful exploration

[@ThePradeep75]

thanks..really blessed to listen this!

[@ganeshbabu2173]

Really amazing sir

[@shravannagarajan3853]

Intense and meditative. Thank you so much for this ❤

[@PraveenKumar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mgururaj]

Very nice excercise for learning.

[@sivasuntharasarmanageswara9683]

Superb sir ❤

[@musicbeats2792]

wonderful playing super

[@greymanBB]

Excellent👌🏽👌🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@chandrakanthrhythms7200]

Nice session anna, fully engaging ✨✨

[@PraveenKumar]

Glad you liked it

[@gangadharanjayavel2422]

Waiting for session 2 anna❤🤞

[@PraveenKumar]

Next Friday :)

[@LayaPriyaFinearts]

Excellent

[@sjahin]

most beautiful !!

[@PraveenKumar]

Thank you! 😊

[@ganeshbabu2173]

Easly understand and for practice sir

[@PraveenKumar]

Glad you are finding it easy!

[@kirankurella2534]

Sir, thank you so much.

[@PraveenKumar]

Most welcome

[@narayanaswamymuniyappa6995]

Very nice sir

[@madhusuthanan7603]

Very nice Sir please give the Lessons what you are playing

[@PraveenKumar]

Will try to make another edition soon!

[@madhusuthanan7603]

@@PraveenKumar is it possible to give the Lessons as text it will useful

[@smartys1sud]

Could be more useful if you have shown fingering for learners

[@adithyakbhat1039]

Hello excuse me sir .how to play mridangam in bhajans or songs and how to mix