I have chosen sahana's mohanam (my favourite ragam) from the DRS thread for this demonstration. Here is the excerpt;
http://rapidshare.de/files/18680691/Mohanam.mp3.html
You will notice that she is singing at a high female pitch and it is a pure melody. FYI sahana has 5.5 kaTTai shruti (I have ascetained it from her earlier singings!) Since this is monophonic, the conversion using DigitalEar with pitchbend is easy. Here it is
http://rapidshare.de/files/18680768/Mohanam.mid.html
I have used Trumpet as the instrument which sounded reasonable. If you have a MIDI player or keyboard you can experiment using other instruments. Flute will sound good and so would shanai. The conversion is not perfect with lot of hiccoughs but you should ignore them at present. If you now play the piece on the noteworthy player you will find at each instant what note sahana is elaborating (unfortunately the pitch bending is not shown but use your ears to get the gamaka pattern). Keep in mind her 5.5 kaTTai to locate the note of mohanam if you want to transcribe it into your instrument.
You can use the MIDI as a Karaoke to sing along in synchrony to train your voice (WARNING Males
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