How I learnt to identify the notes of any song | Pratibha Sarathy

This lady is amazing in teaching skill. Since I learnt harmonium on my own Iam able to understand her depth and clarity. I learnt harmonium to know the pattern of each swaras. I know now the features of each raga , so that I can bring that mood of the raga by playing its features. I was a singer only. But now I can bring that bhava into the raga of the song by just playing its features. I personally feel it is better a singer learns harmonium , keyboard or anyone instrument to bring that bhava to the raag. Thats why alaapana is needed. Mastery of the swaras can be had by key board or harmonium bcs instrument can't make mistake when you play a raaga, bcs each raaga has specific swaras and you perfectly know whether you are deviating from the raaga or not.

You are a really great teacher.Especially your passion of diving deep in to fundamentals of the subject is praiseworthy .

Since I’m going through VoxGuru Carnatic Grade 1 classes, I am salivating thinking when I’ll progress to the level of identifying the swaras. The Pro Challenge in this grade itself is there, as in other Grades, which is reverse of what you talked about, i.e. producing the sound based on a random note thrown at you. As usual your style of teaching is so impressive - the very reason why I enrolled into the course - these videos are treasure house for future reference.

I think only 1 in 10000 people are pitch perfect. Its a subconscious skill that cannot be acquired. Either you have it or you dont ;). The way I learnt is to compare the note to your standard spoken voice, in my case it happens to be A2 and then guess the octave or note from there.

ನಮಗು ಇಷ್ಟನೀವು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲು ಹೇಳಿಕೊಡುವಂತಿದ್ದರೆ. ನಮಗೆ ಬೇರೆಭಾಷೆ ಬರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ಆದರು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಎಲ್ಲಾವೀಡಿಯೋಗಳನ್ನ ನೋಡಿ ಅರ್ಥಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ

Excellent discussion and superb presentation. Yes in Jazz the most common chord progression is 2-5-1, or re- pa-sa. The composition will start from re and land on sa.

Basically , per western music concept, she is helping to understand how to figure out which Mode the song is tuned in. Like ionian mode , Lydian mode, harmonic minor mode. Etc.

Yes, I used to for first 2,3 lines. If the song is - say 'mukala.. mukabla..' - others can also identify when I play. But it it is a melody.. they will give a hostile stare.. for my mottai swaras.😅

You have gained very good musical skills and I Congratulate you. But these tougher skills are for few lucky ones only. Not for all. God bless you Pratibha jee.❤❤❤❤

Miss Prathiba, huge fan of your videos. I have learnt Carnatic music for 3-4 years in school and am an engineer, can hugely connect to how you explain the material. God gifted talent!

Root note and frame of reference is the key to success for singers and musicians

Very interesting! I do very easily find out saa in any song, but I would not have been explain how it happens. May be in the back of mind I must be following same process very quickly, without even noticing what I am doing and how I am finding saa in a song! You are gem!

Keezh sthaayi, madhya sthayi, Tara sthaayi Where song starts is to be identified

Great. I have been using this technique not for singing but to play instruments, however while doing transformations of notes from one instrument to another is a challenge i.e. playing on Bb Saxophone and then playing same song on Eb Soprano sax or on a G# flute. This exercise then becomes a little tricky and i tend to jump scales than the original. I tried to study in detail the circle of fifths etc. But i always have the confusion of the correct scale.

I got my answers here… Thank you so much Pratibha madam🙏🏻

This is such an amazing video! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR WISDOM ❤🎉

You have a beautiful voice and you are very good teacher 🙏🏼

I am impressed with you knowledge on music though your mere talk sound like music

Identifying notes is the true test of "knowing" music.

For a person who doesn`t know basics of music though has urge to know this is impossible.... And a learned person sure will know this eventually on journey of learning music .