Amazing! Video! 18 months old boy playing Dolak for a bhajan

hariharan · Post by **hariharan** » 29 Oct 2008, 18:16

Please watch this video, downloaded from youtube, little Master Shyamsundar, just 18 months "Kuzhandai" playing with perfect talam gnanam for a bhajan at his house. No doubt this boy is a great gift of God and imagine his caliber in this art when he grows! Wish this super avatar all the best. The link is in flv format.,

http://rapidshare.com/files/158655615/1 ... n.flv.html

Radhekrishna

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 29 Oct 2008, 18:55

Thank God!
here at least is one child who doesn't have to be 'pushed'

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 29 Oct 2008, 19:52

Well, not yet anyhow!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 29 Oct 2008, 22:04

Hope with all my heart that he blossoms without parental 'interference'...

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 30 Oct 2008, 03:04

The video seems no longer to be available

hariharan · Post by **hariharan** » 30 Oct 2008, 14:59

Please see the video in youtube at the following urls.

(a) 18 months old boy playing Dolak

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=ST0WCLx1WbM
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=BV1cfHBTkwU
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=nJLTkO0lwWU

( b) 10 year old boy accompanying for TM Krishna on the Mridangam in a main Katchery. He plays for the song Vatapi ganapathim.

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=2QxSg2TFn5E

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 30 Oct 2008, 15:45

This was fantastic ! Great sense of laya. I wish the child and his parents all the very best

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 30 Oct 2008, 20:05

Joining the collective "Aaahhh"

I'm sure laya students, particularly benefit from starting young --- if they want to, of course.

When my teacher sent me to teach some youngsters, the presence of a four-year-old in the class was what scared me the most. It is true that I could not mould his fingers to the mridangam, but, in other ways, he was my best student! He embraced learning and saying the lessons with enthusiasm and ability.

listening to the ten-yr-old play, as I started to write this post, I found it perfectly possible to forget I was listening to a child. Great stuff. It might have been prepared and rehearsed, he certainly moved into the korvai without a moment's pause, but even if it was, his nadam was good, his playing accurate and appropriate, and we can know that he is, if he sticks with it, going to get better and better.

His teacher has taught him to accompany too --- and this is just the sort of song in which a lesser student of a lesser teacher might have chosen to produce fireworks rather than accompaniment. Err... even some professionals?

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 30 Oct 2008, 20:49

The singapore whiz-kid should be seen and heard in the context of the artiste(TMK) himself
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=sWEq1eZcBrY
He gives full credit to the teacher.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 30 Oct 2008, 20:56

The question while watching these is if one asks himself:
'If he can do it why can't my little Johny?' or
'If he can do it at age ten mine can do it at age five'

That is where 'pushing' starts!

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 30 Oct 2008, 21:08

This 10-yr old (at the time) has been learning from Prapancham Ravindran recently, and seems to genuinely enjoy playing the mrudangam- practising several hours daily of his own accord. Kudos to him and all the rising youngsters! The CM pool is hardly depleting.

sridevi · Post by **sridevi** » 30 Oct 2008, 21:34

CML

True!
If one just asks himself/herself, and if it is just a fleeting thought, well that is human nature.
But if one acts on this thought and resolves to bring the thought to reality, then that is when things may go spirally downward.

Sridevi

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 30 Oct 2008, 21:50

It is human nature.
We see our 'issues' as an extension of ourselves. What we cannot do we try to achieve through our offspring. Including 'revenge' (in extreme cases). Most of our movies reinforce the theme

I distinctly remember George Bush stating in regard to Saddam Hussein:
'He laughed at my Father'.

We never achieve anything in life without an incentive or 'motivation'. The most powerful incentive is the one coming from our parents!

It may be good or it may be bad:
But if you wish to attain salvation (according to Gita), you must forsake motivation first