An effective daily practice lesson for Mridangam learners

[@menonramakrishnan]

Sir, Please can you make a video on exercises for perfecting melkalam strokes to be played on the meetu... Also some aesthetic melkalam strokes that a mridangist must have in his repertoire... Helps build lot of confidence for intermediate level mrudangists

[@sigmaprc]

That was a great session. I will start practicing these sequences from today !

[@girishkarulkar]

What a fantastic syllable to practice

[@nadopasana5542]

Very good tip. Beginners at young age shd apply.

[@vyas555]

Sir, please do more small intermediate practice videos like these. Your videos have helped me a lot.

[@Balakrishnan-sq1vo]

Excellent performance, best wishes

[@sr.ramana9249]

Nice and helpful presentation. Thanks bro.🙏

[@sumedhravi3410]

Narayanan Sir, very useful lesson for daily practice. Thank you

[@sakerm3567]

Super bro

[@vishnumadhusudan2236]

Very helpful! Thank you so much🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@karthikramachandran3874]

Dear Hari ettan, these are very useful tips / lessons. I would like to hear some sessions like this that would be helpful for aspiring artists and people interested in percussion.

[@rcnair8706]

Dear sir, Can you upload a video showing how to play " Chappu"

[@Noles86]

Nice

[@pavanmasur6471]

Very nice and helpful technique.. Thank you

[@priyamhn]

Very helpful. good work all the best👍🙏

[@suryakiran4687]

Very very helpful....please do this series sir

[@indunarayanan7524]

Wow super

[@yrathnakar1]

Nice and apt for a novice. 🙏

[@avittathurmohan4587]

👍👌Thank you

[@kiranivatury8774]

Hello Hari - I have a big problem with speed and clarity due to stiffness in my fingers. Your video is excellent and will put your lesson into practice. It would be very helpful if you can post videos on how to improve speed on the thoppi side (left face for a right hand player). I have a bigger problem on that side. Thank you very much for the video. I must say, your fingering is like sweet music to the ears. Mridangam is a wonderful instrument. Deva vaadyamu!!!!

[@tdmfragplayz2287]

Take a specific sollu then play at a lower speed with so effort(bhelam) then slightly increased speed (without puttting thala) then we feel a certain clarity increase the speed ,f

[@SkandaKonnar]

Need more

[@narayanankurup6254]

Sir I am 57 yrs started this divine practice under a guru now learning tha- thari dhi thari dhom thari n nam thari n also the phrase thari kita, but confused while showing the fingering during the thala beats so pl help me with that

[@Venkat_km1998]

Thank you sir 🙏🙏🙏

[@dileepyadav.p4490]

Brother , THA, u didnt play know ? THA should be played in left hand ryt?

[@amrithavarshini]

super

[@mvsrinivas5966]

Why face hidden?

[@subramanianramamoorthy3413]

Respected PH Narayanan Ji Thanks for this daily practice excercise Sir, Could you please explain about the syllables that can be used to accompany swaraprastharams. How to accompany swarams. When to and how to stop while accompanying. How to anticipate the forth coming swarams in song and how to quickly react to synchronise with the swarams of the song. Some basic and standard syllables that are useful to accompany swarams can be explined as there are no standard patterns in such play in songs being listened. Some use sarvalaku while others use syllables that are not standard. I await to listen to your expert practice excercise for that.Thanks Ji

[@PalghatHarinarayanan]

A summarised reply to your query would be that, accompanying is a natural process of learning thorough listening. The more you listen and imbibe essence of song /swara, the more you can represent them rhythmically. Exact syllabic reproduction of swara, as we do for compositions will not go in harmony with music.

[@subramanianramamoorthy3413]

@@PalghatHarinarayanan Ji. Thanks so much. I agree with your opinion of listening more of songs and swara patterns . There is no denial on that critical aspect of learning and accompanying confidently. But then, there should be some basic and standard syllables to start, move and stop in tune with swarams. For beginners, it looks nightmare as a standard is not taught by any. All say to listen more. But, there is no uniformity in swara accompaniment. For same song swara, different artist plays differently. There should be a code for swara follow in mirdangam as most swarams for songs look fixed, constant and not varying. I am sure, as you are an expert and sincere in sharing nuances very well in social media, you can explore this area a bit deeper and display to us with some sample swarams and mirdangam syllables for that. 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1 complete avartanams swara syllables for mirdangam can be explained by you sir. Thanks Ji for taking your time to reply and for your sincerity in media Regards

[@subramaniansrinivasan6871]

Good sir. Can you please display the syllables or you xan send me. It wd be useful

[@Nolo264]

I feel like that Mridangam needs some tuning...

[@Mahesh_Mridangam]

Thank you sir🙏🙏