Lesson-7 : Letter to Word

Hi All,

Summary of yesterday :

Following sentences help us in easy remembering of notations in a staff

Treble – Lines : Every Green Bus Drives Fast
Treble- Spaces: FACE
Bass – Lines : Good Boys Deserve Fine Apples
Bass –Spaces : All Cows Eat Grass

What Next ?

If you know letters , you can form words.

In language form, collection of letters form a word – One letter, Two , three, four,,, etc etc.. A, AT, CAT, etc etc..

the way we learn in languages, here also, combination of sounds you can try and learn and feel it.

Concentrate on first three notes of an octave… make combination of sounds, play slowly, feel it and enjoy.

Then five notes, then seven notes, then two octaves etc etc…..

For example, play C and G slowly, try to sustain the sound in each note . Does that tell something to you…?

If not, now try to play that as if you are telling "Poo….ve……" ( as in the song "Poove Ilaiya Poove" of "Kozhi Koovudhu…") !

Now it make sense to you … isn’t it ?

Same way try CD EE EE very slowly…. No idea,,,? ,

now play it as if you are para-phrasing and telling Jana-Gana Mana …. Yes that’s it….!

(This incidentally makes you feel that there is time element that shall be followed in playing a note, word.. etc..

Yes you are right… We are going to cover that separately in near future…so please wait…)

So, the reverse process of above is equally true; i.e if musical "word" is giving, we can dissect that into letters and write it on the stave… !

While forming word, starting from first letter of that word, the other letters have some relative positions…It goes up an down and mixes everything.. So also here, all permutations and combination of notes….

But with one word of Caution…! while it is easy to write a word say “AXE” , (Letter No-1, no-24, no-5 alphabetically), and it is easy to speak & pronounce also,

In music form, if I ask you to sing key no-1, then 24 and then 5, in succession.. ..you will run way…! (of course in instrument it may be possible, but with difficulties….)

So, naturally, in music evolution...which started from human singing, always take care to use practicality of using relative adjacent notes only… !

If you want to catch high notes, first make a smooth transition from low to high, shift near that range and then dwells in that area… like that… !

There is no hard and fast rules..

Everything indicates …be practical.. and it shall make sense to you and everybody who listens to it. ! That’s all !

The smooth transition is one basic fundamental principle which guides most of the harmony rules….!

So I wanted to highlight that even now at this preliminary stage ! (of word formation…)

One interesting digression….!

In previous paras, I mentioned about words in which letters having relative upward and downword movement w.r.t. previous letter…!

Can you think of English Sentence which have words that are having letters moving only upward (in relation to first letter of that word….) and no mix-up.. ?

OK.. In music it is attempted successfully by IR, in “ Kalai vaniye….” song..of Sindhu Bairavi…!

Each word-like component start on particular note, then all other notes within that word are only in ascending order (in relation to previous note..…! to symbolize that there will be no more downward movement in the life of the hero and only upward looking….) !

IR write Words, Sentences, even a Book in this fashion...!

Enjoy this song now, about this new dimensions given by IR with our present understanding…

Challenge...Thy Name IR !