One missed and continues.......

Well I missed one class of Sound n Music tech. in which seemingly I could have learnt  to identify the Raga formation logic -the structure and form, its usage in Bollywood and other such aspects...........sad!!!

         anyways continuing on 5th class - we were shown the audio of "The boy who drew cats "  and it was such a captivating story telling by Javed Jaffery that I am sure to gift the audio cd to my niece, the 1st thing I visit my sis place....:) . Got to know about pentatonic notes which are based only on 5 svaras, out of 7 -Gamak so to say- which involves oscillation of svar between two consecutive notes -which is possible in Santoor, the Indian classical music accompaniment. Then  the aspects of Indian and Western classical music was discussed. With
"London Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 " we got to know that in the orchestra each instrument is on some other note simultaneously and the task of performing in group with the wide variety of instruments to get the form it gets -with each note just rightly placed , is pretty amazing. Then we discussed the solo performance scenario of India, the elements used to make it more and more rich and so on. As if both Indian and
western classical being the two eyes, which you need to see the world. Absence of understanding of either is like "blind in one eye". Then we listened to "Bahut shukriya, badi meharbani" which again was superb in its music, melody, instruments and shooting......Then we learnt if the song carries on with only single "SA" not changing its frequency anywhere its said to Monotonic in nature.

Well the class ended with a sound recording session, supposedly we were to
learn the software and hands on to handling recording. But we found it
more interesting to perform and let the expert handle the recording. So we splitted in three groups n mine was the stud group of singer and performer- Aditya and Aniket. So I took the chorus part and was happy to go in actual recording surroundings. It sounded quite good, so I guess it was a good end.