1) Never think that if you can match your voice or frequency to some already celebrated singer, then you can become a good singer. No,never. The participants of singing competitions are asked to sing old, much well known songs and these poor fellows try their best to put their feet in others' shoes. They are lost in the fog even after winning the competition, mostly.
If people wanna enjoy Kishore Kumar or Rafi or anyone, they go for the originals, not the carbon copies. Carbon copies are just momentary wonder generating items. How resembling! Almost same to same! Then none gonna care. Why to go for a copy? A copy is always a copy. A bad way to be a good singer. Disastrous.
2) Never try to sing all kinda songs. See, another mistake of these singing competitions. Versatile singer. A great singer. A fallacy.
Do you think Mehdi Hasan, who sang Gahzals so well, could sing with a rap? Never. He sang in a particular mild way. If he had tried ever anything else, most probably had been a disaster.
Have you heard Shubha Mudgal? She sings in a special way. Why? Probably she knows what suits her best. There are limits of versatility so understand your limits, do not go overboard.
If Mehdi Hasan had tried to sing like Michael Jackson , he had remain neither Michael Jackson nor Mehdi Hasan.
If Shubha Mudgal had tried to sing like Madonna, he had remain neither Madonna nor Shubha Mudgal.
3) A sweet voice is no criteria to be a good singer. Just lend an ear to Usha Uthup or Abida Parveen. Do you think they possess ideal voices? No. But they possess stable voices. Heavy, men like, no issue. They sing nevertheless. And sing marvellous. Hope you understand.
The voice should not be hoarse as it became in the case of Nusrat Fateh Ali Saheb in his last years. As you see, it happens with the singers of Mata Jagran, they go on singing, whole night, just screaming and result. A torn,a broken, hoarse voice. Take care that much, no other issue with the voice, heavy, deep, soft, opposite gender like, no issue.
4) What I see, breathing pattern plays a great role in one's singing style. Suppose someone takes short breaths, the one should never try to sing like companions of Nusrat Fateh Ali Saheb. How can someone suffering from Asthma take a long allap (आलाप )? It may trun a prlaap (प्रलाप).
A singer with shallow breaths should sing at a low pitch like Jagjit singh.
A singer with deep breathing pattern can sing anyway.
5) How did we learn our mother tongue, of-course through our mother and father's word, their tongue.
How did we learn a foreign language?
Now here are two ways, first same as we learn our first language or the second way, bookish way, learning, tenses, verbs, nouns and grammar.
How did you learn typing?
The classic way, the way of typing schools. Which finger on which letter, defined way.
Or typing haphazardly, any finger, whichever suited you on any letter and by and by, typing fine, might not be perfectly still very fine and very fast too.
How do a singer learn?
Reshma, Sai Zahoor and many other world class singers, either never learnt or learnt very little in a bookish way.
So to where I wanna drive you? Simple, learn, learning is good, but don't rely upon bookish style.
Here is the point. One should learn and one should teach. But how? As the learner wants to get taught. As the learner can learn. As the learner's inherent qualities, capabilities get enhanced.
If Reshma had been taught music in style of Lata Mangeshkar, what would have happened? A disaster. She had a different voice, different pattern, a rawness.
Gotcha?
6) Music & singing have taken almost a new shape. It used to be something for ear, now it has become something for the legs. For dance.
Often considered as if it have gone averse, devoluted. Only beats and a voice matching those beats, something enough to put the feet on the go.
I do not see anything bad in all this. In-fact humanity was missing something. It was too serious. Dances for the dancers alone, we folks only the watchers. Very bad. Now it is something better, people dance or try to dance anyhow. So nothing bad for such music and songs.
But what I wanna convey , there is still a lot space for previous kinda music. People still wanna listen that. In-fact now there is more need of that kinda music because everyone is trying to sing for the dances. An opportunity. Just prepare songs, deep songs,not meant for feet but for the head, if it suits your singing style, you will get the credit, of-course.
7) How to get recognized? Though singing is not something for recognition necessarily. Singing is for joy, sheer joy. Gana Aaye ya n aaye gana chahiye. Sing even if you cannot sing. Just for the sake of singing. Sheer joy. Have you seen the people living in jhuggies, then at night singing and dancing around fire? Sheer joy. But yeah, I do not see anything bad in an aspiration of getting recognition.
Practice and practice, some selective songs, three four, maximum, enough. Better written by yourself or some great poet. Significant ones. See, what kind of music, what kinda lyrics, what kinda tune, what kinda instruments needed, just a small band, Not a big one, not a traditional one, having drums and all that, not needed. What I mean, one singer, two instrumentalists, only two three people, enough.
Just go to any public place. Flash Mob singing. Do you understand the concept of flash mob? Any public place , crowded, some market, some mall, Connought place, anywhere. Go there and just start singing freely. Just take care, do not disturb the ongoing life. If you have the worth, you will get recognized very soon. Try my words. But better practice a lot before that.
8) What singing is? Singing puts people into a trance.
I tell you a story already told many times.
Once an emperor held a singing competition. A singer sang deepak Rag and with his song succeeded in burning a deepak (earthen lamp). Another singer sang and succeeded in bringing some shower of rain. Another did that, another this.
Then came a man, he claimed that for his singing one can give one's life. Emperor declared that if he succeeded in proving his words, he will be declared the best, the winner, otherwise he himself will lose his life.
The singer accepted the condition. He said that while he would sing, no one in the courtyard would move one's head, never. If anyone does, the one will be killed. The king accepted. Now the singer started, he sang and sang, people forgot the condition laid by him. And lo, what happened! Many of them were swaying their heads with music, with the flow of the singing.
Certainly none was killed but of course the singer was declared the winner. Who else could? One whose singing can put even the death away, certainly is the greatest.
Such is the power of music, singing.
Musicians are magicians.
Singing is a double edged sword. It can be used to for spreading all the good ideas as unwell as the bad ones. See, I wrote "as unwell as" instead of "as well as" knowingly.
It can put people in meditative state. It can be used by Baba Nanak, who used to sing and Bala and Mardana, two of his disciples used to play on musical instruments.
It is a lullaby. It can be an instrument to make people machines. Politicians, they know very well how to misuse it. That is why, they coin slogans. Rhymes. The religious politicians, they too know how to use singing, hence all their programs consist of songs.
So if you really have some concern for humanity, some brain in the head, which you must have, then always see, that your art must not be used for idiotic baseless human assumptions. Use it for spreading light, for challenging, hitting hard the human heads.
CLAIMER--- You must have read various disclaimers, here is CLAIMER, perhaps something happened never before. I am no singer, can not sing even a single line without distorting the tune, worse is I join multiple songs while singing, one line from hither another from thither. But then there is a saying, "I am not a Hen, can not lay an egg but can make an Omelette."
Wrong? Right?
Copy Right.
Participate Plz.
If people wanna enjoy Kishore Kumar or Rafi or anyone, they go for the originals, not the carbon copies. Carbon copies are just momentary wonder generating items. How resembling! Almost same to same! Then none gonna care. Why to go for a copy? A copy is always a copy. A bad way to be a good singer. Disastrous.
2) Never try to sing all kinda songs. See, another mistake of these singing competitions. Versatile singer. A great singer. A fallacy.
Do you think Mehdi Hasan, who sang Gahzals so well, could sing with a rap? Never. He sang in a particular mild way. If he had tried ever anything else, most probably had been a disaster.
Have you heard Shubha Mudgal? She sings in a special way. Why? Probably she knows what suits her best. There are limits of versatility so understand your limits, do not go overboard.
If Mehdi Hasan had tried to sing like Michael Jackson , he had remain neither Michael Jackson nor Mehdi Hasan.
If Shubha Mudgal had tried to sing like Madonna, he had remain neither Madonna nor Shubha Mudgal.
3) A sweet voice is no criteria to be a good singer. Just lend an ear to Usha Uthup or Abida Parveen. Do you think they possess ideal voices? No. But they possess stable voices. Heavy, men like, no issue. They sing nevertheless. And sing marvellous. Hope you understand.
The voice should not be hoarse as it became in the case of Nusrat Fateh Ali Saheb in his last years. As you see, it happens with the singers of Mata Jagran, they go on singing, whole night, just screaming and result. A torn,a broken, hoarse voice. Take care that much, no other issue with the voice, heavy, deep, soft, opposite gender like, no issue.
4) What I see, breathing pattern plays a great role in one's singing style. Suppose someone takes short breaths, the one should never try to sing like companions of Nusrat Fateh Ali Saheb. How can someone suffering from Asthma take a long allap (आलाप )? It may trun a prlaap (प्रलाप).
A singer with shallow breaths should sing at a low pitch like Jagjit singh.
A singer with deep breathing pattern can sing anyway.
5) How did we learn our mother tongue, of-course through our mother and father's word, their tongue.
How did we learn a foreign language?
Now here are two ways, first same as we learn our first language or the second way, bookish way, learning, tenses, verbs, nouns and grammar.
How did you learn typing?
The classic way, the way of typing schools. Which finger on which letter, defined way.
Or typing haphazardly, any finger, whichever suited you on any letter and by and by, typing fine, might not be perfectly still very fine and very fast too.
How do a singer learn?
Reshma, Sai Zahoor and many other world class singers, either never learnt or learnt very little in a bookish way.
So to where I wanna drive you? Simple, learn, learning is good, but don't rely upon bookish style.
Here is the point. One should learn and one should teach. But how? As the learner wants to get taught. As the learner can learn. As the learner's inherent qualities, capabilities get enhanced.
If Reshma had been taught music in style of Lata Mangeshkar, what would have happened? A disaster. She had a different voice, different pattern, a rawness.
Gotcha?
6) Music & singing have taken almost a new shape. It used to be something for ear, now it has become something for the legs. For dance.
Often considered as if it have gone averse, devoluted. Only beats and a voice matching those beats, something enough to put the feet on the go.
I do not see anything bad in all this. In-fact humanity was missing something. It was too serious. Dances for the dancers alone, we folks only the watchers. Very bad. Now it is something better, people dance or try to dance anyhow. So nothing bad for such music and songs.
But what I wanna convey , there is still a lot space for previous kinda music. People still wanna listen that. In-fact now there is more need of that kinda music because everyone is trying to sing for the dances. An opportunity. Just prepare songs, deep songs,not meant for feet but for the head, if it suits your singing style, you will get the credit, of-course.
7) How to get recognized? Though singing is not something for recognition necessarily. Singing is for joy, sheer joy. Gana Aaye ya n aaye gana chahiye. Sing even if you cannot sing. Just for the sake of singing. Sheer joy. Have you seen the people living in jhuggies, then at night singing and dancing around fire? Sheer joy. But yeah, I do not see anything bad in an aspiration of getting recognition.
Practice and practice, some selective songs, three four, maximum, enough. Better written by yourself or some great poet. Significant ones. See, what kind of music, what kinda lyrics, what kinda tune, what kinda instruments needed, just a small band, Not a big one, not a traditional one, having drums and all that, not needed. What I mean, one singer, two instrumentalists, only two three people, enough.
Just go to any public place. Flash Mob singing. Do you understand the concept of flash mob? Any public place , crowded, some market, some mall, Connought place, anywhere. Go there and just start singing freely. Just take care, do not disturb the ongoing life. If you have the worth, you will get recognized very soon. Try my words. But better practice a lot before that.
8) What singing is? Singing puts people into a trance.
I tell you a story already told many times.
Once an emperor held a singing competition. A singer sang deepak Rag and with his song succeeded in burning a deepak (earthen lamp). Another singer sang and succeeded in bringing some shower of rain. Another did that, another this.
Then came a man, he claimed that for his singing one can give one's life. Emperor declared that if he succeeded in proving his words, he will be declared the best, the winner, otherwise he himself will lose his life.
The singer accepted the condition. He said that while he would sing, no one in the courtyard would move one's head, never. If anyone does, the one will be killed. The king accepted. Now the singer started, he sang and sang, people forgot the condition laid by him. And lo, what happened! Many of them were swaying their heads with music, with the flow of the singing.
Certainly none was killed but of course the singer was declared the winner. Who else could? One whose singing can put even the death away, certainly is the greatest.
Such is the power of music, singing.
Musicians are magicians.
Singing is a double edged sword. It can be used to for spreading all the good ideas as unwell as the bad ones. See, I wrote "as unwell as" instead of "as well as" knowingly.
It can put people in meditative state. It can be used by Baba Nanak, who used to sing and Bala and Mardana, two of his disciples used to play on musical instruments.
It is a lullaby. It can be an instrument to make people machines. Politicians, they know very well how to misuse it. That is why, they coin slogans. Rhymes. The religious politicians, they too know how to use singing, hence all their programs consist of songs.
So if you really have some concern for humanity, some brain in the head, which you must have, then always see, that your art must not be used for idiotic baseless human assumptions. Use it for spreading light, for challenging, hitting hard the human heads.
CLAIMER--- You must have read various disclaimers, here is CLAIMER, perhaps something happened never before. I am no singer, can not sing even a single line without distorting the tune, worse is I join multiple songs while singing, one line from hither another from thither. But then there is a saying, "I am not a Hen, can not lay an egg but can make an Omelette."
Wrong? Right?
Copy Right.
Participate Plz.
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