Category Archives: Music

Song influence ;)

Today when I listened to the following two songs, I could see, how similar they were, or rather identical!! Note by note. It was Ambika who pointed out this to me, and I was very happy that, she made this comparison “Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma – S.Janaki” “Vannathi Puzhayude” from Kaliyattam

Got my guitar back

I had given my guitar for service and also to change the pickups. When Melvin came home a few days back, he carried it all the way from Trivandrum, holding it close to the body, so that it doesn’t fall off, all through the journey of sitting in the bus, for more than 650 km.… Read More »

My knowledge of music

After following music for 14 years, this is what I learned I KNOW NOTHING IN MUSIC and that I need to start from the beginning What does that mean ? It means, compared to 14 years back, I am now aware of more things that I do not know and that gives me an opportunity… Read More »

New automation project

Sukalayan informed the team that, in the next week, I will be working with Sukalayan and no one should assign any task to me, during this time. The idea is to come up with a solution to automate the TFS code check-in ( which is now done manually) and let the developer know in case… Read More »

My new year gift

It’s a new year. And what better way to welcome the new year, than to gift me something special ? So this year, I decided to gift myself an audio recorder, this one by zoom. It is H4n pro by Zoom. The going rate was almost 15,000+ even a few weeks back. But when I… Read More »

Tyagaraja – My rockstar

Learned about Pancharathna Krithis of Tyagaraja – http://www.shivkumar.org/music/kanakanaruchira-new.htm Kana kana ruci rā kanaka vasana ninnu Try to combine this with Navarasam song by Taikuddam bridge Sadinchene – Pancharathna Krithis

Music collaboration

Today I was enthralled to see this comment for one of my videos on youtube. The comment went something like this  “Hey, nice! I play guitar and love Paul Baloche. Do you want to collaborate in bandhub.com? Invite: bandhub.com/i/cherian_XUgc (Bandhub found you and sent this invite for me)” so I immediately enrolled for the site… Read More »

Melvin’s music performance

Saw Melvin’s guitar performance, during the IBS Music Team performing at the Pool Garden on IBS’ 19th anniversary, posted on facebook, with a tagline ‘Feeling awesome’. Didn’t like it though. Vocalists was not that great ( Esp the song, ‘tum bin’), and everyone had performed so mechanically. There was no life whatsoever. Even when the… Read More »