Hi,I'm Dany and I'll turn 20 this march.Now I'm a little confident that I can go out and earn my living(definitely not a luxurious one).I'm enrolled in an Indian Institute of Technology to study Physics which I loved long ago.I'm grateful to my parents and my family for shaping me the way I'm.I sincerely don't know how to talk to people as I've spent my life till now in a small room doing some silly stuff.I'm many things as I assume.But I'm here to talk about the music that I appreciate today.
Long ago when I was a kid,I heard a melody that was playing on the radio.We had T.V. but there was only one channel we could watch,the DD.I couldn't sing the lyrics so I used to whistle that melody,almost everywhere.I remember, my mother said "this is composed by Ilayaraja".I didn't understand what she told.I continued to whistle.After many years I joined guitar classes as there was an idle guitar in my home(my cousin left it when he left to America).I learned to hold it,play some basic chords before I went to my teacher.He started teaching me some theory starting from the major scale. Playing guitar is not that easy as it seems.These days many college students seen with the guitars make people think so.After some training I started to play some riffs and started looking for easy pieces on guitar.During this search I heard the melody that I used to whistle in the past,but in a different form.Then I asked my teacher about the different form of the melody.I once again heard "the composer is Ilayaraja" from him.I was really curious to know about the term"composer".I found that the composer is the person who writes the music that is to be played by the musicians in a piece.In India he is the one who arranges complex passages outlining the main melody.I started reading about the real music then.Reading and writing music play an important role in the journey of a musician.And writing the music that plays in your head is the most difficult skill to achieve as far as I know.This guy is a genius who can simply sit and write music for full orchestra in full flow without making errors and changes.I started searching for his scores but I couldn't find any but a picture of his music sketch on which he wrote "Music is divine." and signed Ilayaraja.Now that I know the hardness of composing in this style,I started adoring the composer whenever I listen to a good song.But I found that there aren't many composers,especially in India,who could do this. That's it! highest place for him in my thoughts.I started reading about the music theory and harmony as an amateur.Inspired by his pieces that I recently listened to,I even started to read the composition techniques and found so many things to learn from his pieces.I searched youtube for these things but I found only some support.I listened to some other pieces by classical era composers and found J.S.Bach's pieces very interesting as I didn't understand anything in there.So I started reading about this guy and found that most of his works are based on the concept of counterpoint and his fugues made me mad as they were confusing.But I really liked his complicated pieces from "Well tempered Clavier" and "The art of fugue".I don't know but I have some sort of affinity towards the European culture in music and architecture(I'd definitely love to visit the castles and palaces in Europe). I can now see that there are similarities between his compositions and Ilayaraja's pieces where different independent voices sound good together.Not many people like these things.The bass lines are carefully written to dominate at certain places in the piece. Ilayaraja is a Gold medalist in classical guitar from the Trinity College of Music,London.I think he learned the arts of composition there reading the scores of different classical composers.Mozart's music also influenced him so much as he wrote a piece called "Mozart,I love you" in the album "Nothing but wind" following his style.He also started many songs with complex orchestral passages like Mozart did.The fusion of Carnatic music with western instruments made him famous.His albums "How to name it?" and "Nothing but wind (ft. Hariprasad Chaurasia)" are his famous fusion works. I learned the name of great musical legend,Thiagaraja after I started listening to Ilayaraja. He really inspired me to learn the ethnic music concepts of Carnatic music.Wonderful melodies and counter melodies in his back ground scores with rich orchestral textures inspires me so much to write pieces like that.I just started to write one ... haha..
Long ago when I was a kid,I heard a melody that was playing on the radio.We had T.V. but there was only one channel we could watch,the DD.I couldn't sing the lyrics so I used to whistle that melody,almost everywhere.I remember, my mother said "this is composed by Ilayaraja".I didn't understand what she told.I continued to whistle.After many years I joined guitar classes as there was an idle guitar in my home(my cousin left it when he left to America).I learned to hold it,play some basic chords before I went to my teacher.He started teaching me some theory starting from the major scale. Playing guitar is not that easy as it seems.These days many college students seen with the guitars make people think so.After some training I started to play some riffs and started looking for easy pieces on guitar.During this search I heard the melody that I used to whistle in the past,but in a different form.Then I asked my teacher about the different form of the melody.I once again heard "the composer is Ilayaraja" from him.I was really curious to know about the term"composer".I found that the composer is the person who writes the music that is to be played by the musicians in a piece.In India he is the one who arranges complex passages outlining the main melody.I started reading about the real music then.Reading and writing music play an important role in the journey of a musician.And writing the music that plays in your head is the most difficult skill to achieve as far as I know.This guy is a genius who can simply sit and write music for full orchestra in full flow without making errors and changes.I started searching for his scores but I couldn't find any but a picture of his music sketch on which he wrote "Music is divine." and signed Ilayaraja.Now that I know the hardness of composing in this style,I started adoring the composer whenever I listen to a good song.But I found that there aren't many composers,especially in India,who could do this. That's it! highest place for him in my thoughts.I started reading about the music theory and harmony as an amateur.Inspired by his pieces that I recently listened to,I even started to read the composition techniques and found so many things to learn from his pieces.I searched youtube for these things but I found only some support.I listened to some other pieces by classical era composers and found J.S.Bach's pieces very interesting as I didn't understand anything in there.So I started reading about this guy and found that most of his works are based on the concept of counterpoint and his fugues made me mad as they were confusing.But I really liked his complicated pieces from "Well tempered Clavier" and "The art of fugue".I don't know but I have some sort of affinity towards the European culture in music and architecture(I'd definitely love to visit the castles and palaces in Europe). I can now see that there are similarities between his compositions and Ilayaraja's pieces where different independent voices sound good together.Not many people like these things.The bass lines are carefully written to dominate at certain places in the piece. Ilayaraja is a Gold medalist in classical guitar from the Trinity College of Music,London.I think he learned the arts of composition there reading the scores of different classical composers.Mozart's music also influenced him so much as he wrote a piece called "Mozart,I love you" in the album "Nothing but wind" following his style.He also started many songs with complex orchestral passages like Mozart did.The fusion of Carnatic music with western instruments made him famous.His albums "How to name it?" and "Nothing but wind (ft. Hariprasad Chaurasia)" are his famous fusion works. I learned the name of great musical legend,Thiagaraja after I started listening to Ilayaraja. He really inspired me to learn the ethnic music concepts of Carnatic music.Wonderful melodies and counter melodies in his back ground scores with rich orchestral textures inspires me so much to write pieces like that.I just started to write one ... haha..
