Category Archives: Music

First guitar lick

I am slowly progressing. But every single milestone needs to be celebrated. Thanks to Marty, I now have the blues scale in my hands. Played it to Melvin and Mom and both of them liked it a lot. When you combine it with drum beats and E7 chord, you start to get some amazing results.

Mixing audio for skype ( using audio interface )

Problem statement : I wanted to connect my guitar and mic to the audio interface, to jam with my friends and use both of them simultaneously through skype. I found that Skype picks up only the left channel ( one channel ), which means the other channel will not be heard. That means, I will… Read More »

My first worship song in guitar

I know something has changed since my practise session with Karthik last time ( on Sunday ) After I came home today, I wanted to play Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright. But I felt, I should play a worship song instead. I chose ‘Our God is an awesome God’ and searched for the chords. It was… Read More »

Second Anonymous band meet

Yesterday we had our second band meet of the band I am part of, at Poornima’s house. Our meet was held at the top floor of her house. The house was very beautiful, next to Bangalore Central Mall and the place where we practiced was very spacious. Was amazed by Karthik’s ( the other Karthik)amazing… Read More »

Last day with Parents | Summer 2015

Today was an exciting day and a lot of things happened. For lunch, mom had prepared fish cutlet and it was so tasty and in the evening we decided to go out 1. Putthan palli church With mom and dad, we went to the church and went to place where Valyapacchan was buried. I thought that… Read More »

A new youtube channel – A new home

Prologue Our band wanted a new home and after discussing with Melvin we decided to go with a new channel in youtube. This is our new address https://www.youtube.com/freemusicsoul Below are the steps to create a new channel and configuring it First go to channel switcher – http://www.youtube.com/channel_switcher Click on ‘Create a new channel’ Enter the details as… Read More »

An awesome gift – Yamaha Keyboard PSR i455

The initial plan was to buy PSR 433. As per the suggestion from Melvin, called up Reynolds and Sound Glitz and both the places only i455 was avaialbe. Googled for difference between the two and found that i455 would have more Indian based rhythms and sounds. Melvin was here on Saturday and some time in… Read More »

Religion for music

  The guitar riffs ( at 6:30 ) in the song ‘Bhaja Govindam by Krishna’s Temple Rock’, made me think about this. How about a religion for music ? In that case, I would be the evangelist for this religion. With all the God given instruments – keyboard, midi, guitar and bass, I am sure,… Read More »

Anybody walking – Smooth criminal

For the last 25 years, I thought that the lyrics of the song ‘Smooth Criminal’ was Anybody walking!. One of the first songs I heard in a Philips Walk man that my brother had, in stereo, which totally changed my perception of music In reality the words in the lyrics were Annie, are you OK? So,… Read More »