Ragamorphism - Guitar Instructional DVD+CD-ROM
by Prasanna, Vivek Narayan
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Author: PrasannaActor: Prasanna, Vivek Narayan
Director: Prasanna, Vivek Narayan
DVD: Region Code 0
Format: Color, Digital Sound, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-20
Studio: Susila Music
DVD Reviews of Ragamorphism - Guitar Instructional DVD+CD-ROM
DVD Review: Great Theory Instruction only
Summary: 5 Stars
This is great DVD but slightly over priced.
It is an overview of some major concepts in Indian music.
However, it doesn't really teach one how to play it on guitar.
Most of the stuff he does is too fast and advanced for us to
pick up by watching. The section on Gamakka is only an introduction
and he does not reveal too much. He only show 2 tricks and one of
them is just a regular pull off. He says he will release a second DVD exclusively for Gammakas. This is really just a showcase for his music and not too much about how to learn. He talks about different scales but we can get that from any book. The CD rom claims to have music sheets for everything he plays in the dVD but it is not tab. ONly notes, you have to know how to read music. There are some documents but that's about it. I wish this stuff was in tab. When he plays the Todi raga in Indian classical tuning it is rather confusing. He claims Thodi is nothing but D phrygian but I mapped out D phrygian and even used his tuning but it seems he is using different notes or more embellisments. Bottom line... you can't learn what he does from this DVD. You can expand your music knowledge and maybe just maybe cop a little of what he is doing. Most of it is way..way...way to fast to see what he is doing and he concentrates more on theory than technique. But nevertheless it is great DVD and highly recomended! Most of it is mindboggling and makes want to throw down your guitar and stop playing!!!!
DVD Review: Good introduction to raaga grammar and good emphasis on gamakas
Summary: 5 Stars
This dvd gives a very good introduction to carnatic music raagas and talks about gamakas or the microtones. There are illustrations of the raagas like "bilahari", "nalinakanthi", "abheri" etc.. The dvd comes with scores for all the compositions played mostly where it is possible to express it using notation.
The section about gamakas is really good. This could have been even more eloborate but still it does a good job. If you know little bit of carnatic music and staff notation this dvd is for you. Other people can also buy the dvd but for novices and newbies this can't be recommended. It is impossible to compress a few hundred years of traditional carnatic music in a 90 mins dvd.
DVD Review: Awesome Insight into Carnatic Guitar Playing
Summary: 4 Stars
I am an avid fan of Prasanna and his Guitar. Through this instructional DVD Prasanna offers an insight into the world of Carnatic Music and how to play it on the guitar. Understanding carnatic to the musician steeped in western/classical tradition is difficult, as these grace note slurs and microtones, embellishments, improvisation based on a raga tend to confuse. But Prasanna manages to explain these nuances with ease.
This DVD is a must for anyone who wants to explore Carnatic music. As this is a barebones "How To" on playing carnatic on the guitar.
DVD Review: Ragamorphism
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought John McLaughlin's "This is the Way I do it" 3 set DVD
and this ranks right up there with it as a quantum leap for guitarists and any instrumental musician in general that wants to go outside of the box if they so desire; or, play somewhat within the boxes, with a different twist and flexibility. If you want Indian music exposures with relationships to traditional Western hemisphere applications, then this is it! For rockers, fusionists especially, jazzists, classisists and world music. Guys! Do album w.violin,tablas/shock the world!
Description of Ragamorphism - Guitar Instructional DVD+CD-ROM
Prasanna is the top most performer of ancient Indian classical tradition of CArnatic music on the electric guitar. A Magna-cum-Laude almunus of Berklee College of Music and a highly respected Jazz and Fusion guitarist and composer, Prasanna has performed/recorded with the likes of Joe Lovano, Larry Coryell, Victor Wooten, Steve Smith, Airto Moreira, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Alphonso Johnson, Aka Moon, Ralph Humphrey, A.R. Rahman, Illayaraja, L. Subramaniam, Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Trichy Sankaran, Kadri Gopalnath, Kanyakumari and many others.This instrcutional guitar video reveals the creative force behind Prasanna's outstanding artistry and patented guitar technique, demonstrating Carnatic music as a powerful resource for the modern improviser in Jazz, Blues, Rock and any other contemporary idiom. In an easy to understand conversational approach, Prasanna unlocks the potent wealth of his Carnatic vocabulary, that makes it possible for him to improvise in a way no guitarist has ever done before.
Exploration of numerous Ragas and their applications in soloing over chord changes, the blues, chord voicings derived from Ragas, microtonal slurring and sliding guitar techniques, mathematical treatment of rhythms etc are just some of the material covered in this power packed 90 minute ride, which includes extensive close-up shots of his guitar playing, all supplemented with professionally laid out music notation in an extensive CD-ROM with a detailed glossary and other features. We hope this will open up a whole new world of thought for all musicians, guitarists and enthusiasts that are interested in the fine art of improvisation.
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