Briga Sadhaka Varase

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 31 Dec 2008, 08:59

Sometime ago, there was a discussion about mastering Brigas (see http://rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php? ... ihas.html). srkris mentioned that there are excercises called "Briga Sadhaka Varase" that were published in Panchapeksha Iyer's "Ganamrutha Bodhini".

When I was organizing my books yesterday, what should I find but the very book that srkris had mentioned! And I had forgotten that I possessed that book

Since Briga Sadhaka Varase is hard to find, I thought it might benefit students if I posted them here, but I am not sure about copyright issues.

Can musical excersices like Briga Sadhaka Varases published in a book be shared freely on a forum like this? Does copyright apply here?

Please let me know.

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 05 Jan 2009, 22:23

hmmm - I wonder what would have happened if Purandara dAsa copyrighted piLLAri geethes, and Tyagaraja his Pancharatnas

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 07 Jan 2009, 02:26

Posting fascimile from published copyrighted books without permission is prohibited. But if the material is not copyrighted it can be posted independantly....

Rasika911 · Post by **Rasika911** » 17 Apr 2009, 10:46

ramakriya wrote:hmmm - I wonder what would have happened if Purandara dAsa copyrighted piLLAri geethes, and Tyagaraja his Pancharatnas

I share the same sentiment

venkatag · Post by **venkatag** » 02 Jun 2009, 01:33

Can you please send it as an email? Or let me know where we can get it?

Really appreciate your help

Thanks

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 02 Jun 2009, 05:36

If I recall brigha exercises follow the structure
RSS, GRR, MGG, PMM, DPP, ... right to the upper mA and then descend in reverse back down the scale.
or
S,RSS, R,GRR, G,MGG, M,PMM, P,DPP, ... etc

They can be practiced in akAram in faster speeds and in various melakartha rAgas

vs_manjunath · Post by **vs_manjunath** » 02 Jun 2009, 13:03

venkatag wrote:Can you please send it as an email? Or let me know where we can get it?

Really appreciate your help

Thanks

REQUEST REPEATED ([email protected])

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 03 Jun 2009, 14:05

Hi everyone,
Sorry about the delay in posting the excercises. I shall do so very soon. My schedules allow me very little free time, so I often cannot keep promises

Give me a week and I shall post it here.

- Girish

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 07 Jun 2009, 09:48

I'm trying to type the excercises into a document but I can't figure out how to put a dot over a character (to indicate that it has to be sung in the upper octave).

The character map utility in windows doesn't have diacritical characters for S, R, G, M, P, D, N

Any helpful tips?

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 07 Jun 2009, 18:58

shameless plug for my software: You could try http://arunk.freepgs.com/wordpress/cm-typesetter/about - although for the purposes of this thread, it may be overkill (as some learning curve maybe required). I also thought there was a font that handles atleast the dots (mohan?)

Arun

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 07 Jun 2009, 19:41

You can downoad the Windows font called Swaram. I have developed this font to enable dots below and above the swaram.
Download it at
http://www.carnaticcorner.com/fonts/carnatic-fonts.zip

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 07 Jun 2009, 22:05

Thank you, Arun and Mohan. I have downloaded and installed Mohan's Swaram font. This is just what I needed. Great work! I'm typing up the excercises now. Hope to complete them in a couple of days and upload them.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 09 Jun 2009, 06:02

When posting documents using the swaram font, be sure to make a PDF file and in the PDF options choose the "Embed Fonts in document" (or something similar to this) option. This will ensure that people who read the document and don't have the font installed on their computer will be able to see the special characters.

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 09 Jun 2009, 09:25

Sure, I will do that. Thanks for the tip.

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 13 Jun 2009, 11:01

Hi all,
At last, I managed to type out all the exercies

Sorry for the delay. With my daily schedule running well into the night, I hardly get much time.

Anyway, get the PDF from here:

http://fb.esnips.com/doc/7fc9e602-c437- ... Varasegalu

Let me know if you find anything wrong and I will correct it and upload again.

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 13 Jun 2009, 11:03

Click on the "Download" link below the preview pane on the above URL to download the file.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 14 Jun 2009, 16:21

Good job Girish!

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 14 Jun 2009, 23:14

Girish: Thanks. Nicely done. Thanks Mohan for the font.

venkatag · Post by **venkatag** » 14 Oct 2010, 22:55

Hi Girish

I was trying to access the site you had provided. Was not able to. Does the link still exist?
If not, can you please post it again?

Thank you so much
GV

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 18 Oct 2010, 08:55

Hi Venkat,
I am able to access the URL. Can you try again? Click on the "Download" link to get the PDF.

Girish

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