Ragamorphism - Guitar Instructional DVD+CD-ROM

Starring:Prasanna, Vivek Narayan
Director: Vivek Narayan, Prasanna
Studio: Susila Music
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
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.

Description

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.

Customer Reviews:

Good introduction to raaga grammar and good emphasis on gamakas.......2006-04-08

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.

Awesome Insight into Carnatic Guitar Playing.......2006-02-17

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.

Ragamorphism.......2005-08-23

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!

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