FUN CARNATIC
ANANYA ASHOK
Summer Vacation is over and now it’ s back to the grind in school and Music classes. How do you get back into the flow of things you may ask? Well, We’ ve compiled a list of incredibly cool and useful sites to help you get your Carnatic homework done and just get you back into the groove overall. Check it out!
1. Carnatic Karaoke
So, you’ ve practiced that song from that CD, and now you want to sing it, but wish you had the same lovely accompaniment? Use AnalogX Vocal Remover that strips your music files of vocal tracks. It works on the same principles that the hardware removers do- that in most instances vocals are equally mixed in both channels, and can be identified and therefore removed by simply changing the phase on one channel by 180 degrees. In order to use the DirectX Vocal Remover, your application must support DirectX Audio Plugins, and must also support either realtime or nonrealtime processing( such as Paris, Cakewalk, WaveLab, CoolEdit, etc).
2. SlowGold
Is your teacher ' s gamaka just too insanely fast for you to know what he is singing? Want to catch that beautiful violin alapana in slow motion? A software program for Windows called SlowGold does just that. No more faking. This software makes it simple for anyone to play along with( or transcribe) lightning-fast riffs by starting at a modest pace. You will hear nuances of playing technique that you have never heard before. And you will start playing along at a comfortable speed and improve quite noticeably in just a few short sessions. With virtually any recording, you can play along with it at a speed that works for you, at your current skill level, in a way that helps you improve while you have lots of fun playing along with the great ones.
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