Monday, March 31, 2008

Manjal Veyil

When I started audio blogging my pitch was way lower than today and I wasn't able to sing most of the cine songs in the regular pitch. It use to be a fascination to be able to sing ARR songs without futzing with the scale. I never imagined I could do that in this lifetime, since I thought I was BORN with a lower pitch voice and there is nothing I could do. Thanks to the motivating comments from some of my dear audio blogging friends and my passion, I spent some time on researching this and realized how ignorant I was. Unlike most common people would believe, a few vocal exercise and some understanding about the SCIENCE behind singing would increase anyone's range and accuracy to an incredible level. That's exactly what I did, in this past year I learnt so much more and made so much progress to my surprise. I increased my range ALMOST by an octave.

Anyways, enough of my GRAMMY speech. Here is a high pitch energetic song from Vetaiyadu Vilaiyadu, sung by Hariharan. I love this song for the energy level and tried this just because now I COULD :). There are a few off key notes at the higher end, didn't feel like singing it again. Will do in the next go round after your feedback as well. Hopefully soon I can sing these songs with ease.


Please take a few mins as always for your honest feedback.















15 comments:

Harshan said...

TC ....You sound like a rock star !! indeed quite a surprise ...very enjoyable... :)

Please pass me those tricks ...need to enhance my aging vocal range :)

Keep it up !!! You are improving by leaps and bounds .

TC Ratnapuri said...

Thanks Harshan for that wonderful compliment. You have been instrumental in guiding me (and all audio bloggers) so far and I really appreciate your time and feedback.

You have an incredible range and accuracy already and I don't believe you need to learn the things I learnt. But just for your info, you can find the things I am talking about at http://www.jeanniedeva.com. I was making some basic mistakes and was helped a lot by this. There are some free tips at http://www.music-articles.com/vocalist/index.html

I have all these CDs and books. Please let me know if you are interested in any of them.

priti said...

tcr: very good attempt...the real vocal range of hariharan is felt in the song Jhonka hawa ka in Hum Dil De chuke sanam....he goes from very low to very high..Excellent attempt..IMHO konjam gamkams eduthu konjam Rockish feel kudutha it would have sounded still better....I am planning to re-continue my music classes now that school is over...to improve my vocal range and tone up my voice.....Keep singing :)

Sabari Girish said...

Great Rendering ..You should sing more .All the Best ..

TC Ratnapuri said...

Thanks Priti. Waiting for more songs from you.

Thanks Sabari for the time and comment.

rub@n said...

I NEED NINAITHU NINAITHU FROM 7G KARAOKE PLSZ SEND IT TO MA MAIL ID ruban_uk@hotmail.co.uk

rub@n said...

thanx

kumar said...

Hi TC R ,
I am unable to hear the full song .The player doesn't play the song more than 20 seconds.

kumar said...

Can you give me the link to the songs you have sung or mail it to kumarsplanet.gmail.com ?
Regards

Deblina M. said...

Hi TC,

Very nicely sung. Your tonal quality is very good.

Regards,
Deblina

priti said...

Hello TCR....why no posts of late???

TC Ratnapuri said...

Thanks Kumar, for visiting and brining up the issue. Hope you got the email link I sent you.

Thanks Deblina for the visit and compliments. Appreciate it.

Hello Priti, thanks for dropping by. Just have been too busy with household stuff since its summer. Will post something soon.

Anonymous said...

this is fantastic man... i appreciate u. jus keep going... u have a perrenial future..... NEVER GIVE UP UR VOICE N PITCH.

Prabhu
MANAGER
THE TIMES OF INDIA
CHENNAI

Arun Mohan said...

Hello Mr. Ratnapuri, I am interested to know the things you learnt about improving the scale and it would be great if you can point me to the right source. I would like to talk to you through mail. It would be great if you can send me a blank mail.My mail id is arunm.chat@gmail.com.

Anonymous said...

do you have karaoke which plays back groud music for annamacharya keerthanas. I am singing few keerthanas and looking for background music. please share if you have some info -venkat