sadhu mirandal

The tamil film sadhu miranda is concocted by the malayalam writer director sidhique with what stuff he had while doing the malayalam films like ramji rao speaking and mannar mathai speaking.If you have seen the two films mentioned above you will not need to see "sadhu miranda".It is a combination of the two.
Sidhique believes that if you make artist run it will make fun.Two groups of gangsters running here and there and one of them conceals himself in the dicky of the car ! Oh my god ,Don't think of the people, at least sidhique himself will start getting bored about what he has in store.His migration to the tamil film will be a flop if he is around with this box of pebbles
My advice to siddique is to refrain from making films until he catches hold of something new.His filmography is still at "Ramji rao speaking "and he has not moved an inch from there.

Muslim devotional songs

Allah akbar!The powerful sound of the islam reverberating between the hills of eternity for the emancipation of mankind.Nothing other than music can contain the depth of the meaning of holy Quran and the deepest faith of islam.Because music contains everything.I came to this conclusion when I listened to the songs in the album titled"Allah Akbar".The attractive cover will tempt the buyer to open it and push it into the CDplayer without delay.You are ok! But close your eyes too.It will be like going to heaven with a thousand wings to fly.The songs are very nice despite the singers are not very popular.The song "manimegha therirangi" is melodious."ahadavante" is a female song that is more devotional."samsamil neeradi" is quite rhythmic and pious.You will feel like listening again and again."orikkal" also belongs to the same family.Other songs areKanivin kathirSnehagayakaee vazhitharayil nabiAllah akbarThe only unfortunate thing is the language.The songs are in malayalam which the majority of the world population cannot follow.But music has no language. These songs are enjoyable beyond language.
The songs are available in india.For outside indians the only way to download from http://amiestreet.com/artist/13679

sree narayana guru smrithi

The latest album "sree narayanaguru smrithi"composed by SANJEEVBABU is something more than an album.Unlike the common albums which have nothing to convey the listener other than a cacophonic series of words in an ununderstandably fashion and a lot of unmusical noises,this album has some good songs with cool tunes that stick to our mind for quite some time.
One song which turns our mind poignant is the one sung by child "varamarulu".This has a hypnotic feel of an orphan child praying to sreenarayanaguru and make our eyes wet. The song about the aruvippuram temple is sung by sreekanth is semiclassical in style.
The other songs are
chembazhanthy
pavana guru hridayam
ethra santham
jathibhaedam
The album gives a feeling of sublime music that takes us to sreenarayana guru's closes premises.

guitar lessons

The best way to learn guitar is to find out a good teacher and follow his instructions.Systematic learning for six to seven years will take you to the status of a good professional guitarist or if you prefer to be an amature you can strum around with a couple of chords and a few songs in less than a year to attract the attention of your friends in a party or so.

Another hard way is to depend on internet lessons after purchasing a good guitar.For the second method I will propose this online lessons site.

good luck and happy guitaring!

Bacon - Bye-Bye Little School Girl

Why not make a resolution to help expand the musical horizons of those around you this year? For those of us with friends who are drawn to some of the extremely successful pop punk of recent times, bands like Bacon may be the perfect foot in the door.
These guys in particular have a dynamic delivery and virtually every song bristles with synth-hoisted melodic hooks that will expertly harpoon the involuntary-humming-centers of your brain. This is my favorite song off of their self-titled album of several years ago. Their more recent album “Butterfly” has double its length and number of songs, and a lot more of the same catchy accessible sound and savory name that fans of the genre are almost guaranteed to find appetizing…

ROCK N ROLL which doesn't rock!

Chandramauli, a world-famous drummer who was a member of a team of six who came to Chennai to make it big in the world of music. But at a point of time of their accomplishments, Chandramauli goes international. He was not available for a long time and none could trace out where he was.Grapevine had many stories like he was settled in London and married a black girl, imprisoned in Latin America for rearing marijuana. Finally, Chandramauli was spotted in Mumbai by one of his old friends, Gunasekharan (Siddhique), now a popular music director. He was immediately lifted back to Chennai, by Guna who wants Mauli to give percussion support to his new song for a Lal Jose film. Mauli, unpredictable and easy-go, initially was reluctant to associate with such a 'silly' song but on insistence from his old friends like Violinist Issac (Lal), Keyboard player Henry (Rehman), Thabalist Balu (Harishree Ashokan), Choreographer Meenakshy (Shwetha) and Rerecordist Vichan (Mukesh), he goes on to play for Guna. Mauli who comes in only for a few days decides to take a happy holiday working together, again with their old friends.And in the process he embarks upon a Mumbai-born, Malayalee singer Daya Sreenivas. Mauli, who never believed in falling in love, instantly fell for her graceful voice and character. ‘Rock N Roll’ then follows what changes Daya brings about in the life of Mauli and his friends. The film is certainly not a racy laugh riot as the title suggests. Dragging sequences with over-built dialogues make the viewers intolerant.But certainly the film can be passed off as yet another also-ran film. The light hearted plot has seemingly endless stream of gags and stressful jokes that pad the movie up and down and sometimes, slightly take away from the parts that work. Post interval, the film gets quite emotional and heavy. It's here that the film tends to drag a bit. If you dig silly stuff, they’re here, but they're an unworthy compliment to a flick that was meant to be carefully shot fun ride, which at least offers a difference in story lines. The story is largely believable but goes ridiculous in many places like a world-famous percussion artist running after many, to get a song tuned and the introduction scene of Syedapet Giri, which we had seen umpteen times before. We can very well anticipate the ending, we know what's going to happen even before it does. And even when it does, Renjith, with his huge experience in scripting, still could have made it better. But, most likely, you will pardon the director for these disregards because this is an entertaining film and is slickly constructed with a hip soundtrack by Vidyasagar and good art direction by Sunil.And as usual, Mohanlal, the one-man entertainment troupe is definitely the highlight of the film. He is adorable with a pony tail and distinct characterizations, looks younger than before and rides the audience as a jockey rides a horse. His comic timing is spot on and his affable easy-going camaraderie with his talented co-artists like Jagathy, Siddhique and Co is pleasant and blends in seamlessly with the theme of the movie. Watching him perform is like being peppered by a Joke Machine Gun. Lekshmi Rai as Daya Sreenivas is gorgeous and gives a good performance all through the film. All others in the cast including Rohini as Nirmala and Anoop Menon as Vivek do their best to make the film a decent affair. The other highlights of the film are good visuals by Manoj Pillai and slick editing by Ranjan Abraham. The film has some daringly different (in terms of Mollywood) songs by Vidayasager set in the lines of Gireesh Puthencherry. The pick among these songs is 'Manchadi Mazha', the title song soulfully rendered by Madhu Balakrishnan and Sujatha. And in the down side is the final punch song of the musical that could have been better and hummable to sustain the spirit of the drama. Renjith too seems a victim of the dialogue in the film which goes on to document that ''There are less film directors in Malayalam with a clear music sense”. The creators essentially must understand that a fresh backdrop, technical finesse and good songs alone do not make a good quality film, but a taut script that moves on to strengths is the absolute necessity. In a nutshell, the film has a breath of freshness with good technical aspects, but also a little clichéd fare with some entertaining moments.

MIDI GUITAR

MIDI, RMC and the Roland GK system

The Roland GK system also used by RMC, Godin and others isvery much a plug it in and rock unit, but what if you want alittle more out of it, even to know its basic principles of operation?
Unfretted is about to unravel all of that, pass on some tips,some suggested circuit diagrams, and where to source the plugs and sockets.
If it all gets too technical we will try via e-mail or The Forum to provideyou with more answers than questions.



WARNING - If you blow anything up, its your fault, even if we told you to do it.This article is currently being written, not all the info you need to safely carry out suggested tasks is included yet. Even so we strongly discourage the wearing of nylon clothes when using a soldering iron. Do not play the guitar in the bath.



Introduction
Since the advent of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) us guitarists have wanted to be in on the act. Why should keyboard players have all the fun?
The main obstacle to MIDI on guitar has been the way the MIDI signal is generated. On a keyboard it is simple, you press the key, you generate a "note on" signal, you release the key and you generate a "note off" signal.
What a MIDI generator for guitar has to do is quite complex, first it has to detect that a note is being played, then convert the pitch of the note so this information can be sent as a "note on" signal. As the note decays there is a point where the MIDI generator has to decide to send a "note off" signal. In addition, if the guitarist bends a note, the appropriate MIDI pitch bend signal has to be sent.
Now if this process didn't seem quite complex already, there is a hitch. You can only do this with one note at a time, more than one note would totally confuse the pitch to MIDI convertor. So the solution is simple, use a MIDI convertor for each individual string. At this point conventional guitar pickups go out of the window, they do six strings at a time. What you need is a pickup with six individual outputs, one for each string, what we call in the trade a "hex" pickup. (I think hex is Latin for six)
The output from commercially available hex pickups is quite low, so they all have a small pre-amp circuit located close to the pickup. In the case of the Roland hex pickup this is either a GK2A or GK3A, and for RMC equipped guitars (Godin, Brian Moore etc.) it is a small pre-amp board located inside the guitar.
What most of these controllers offer via a single 13 pin connector is six individual string outputs, a master output - either a mix of the six strings or a through signal from the guitars normal electronics, a MIDI volume signal - via a volume control, and two control switches - usually up/down patch selection.
Even though these hex style pickups are intended for MIDI implementation, there are now products that use the six individual string outputs to implement guitar modelling and the individual processing of single strings for effects such as harmonists and instant alternate tuning. The Roland VG88 and its predecessor the VG8 being the best known.
What has actually been handed to us guitarists is very interesting, yes we have MIDI, yes we have modelling, but we also have a system giving us signals from each string individually. Imagine taking each string through a different effects box, or sending alternate strings to different sides of the stage. Or setting up drone strings to improvise over?
There are two ways of doing this, you can purchase the RMC fanout box a fine unit but priced at $395 US. That's quite hefty if you have to pay post, packing and duty to Europe. Second method is you can build your own. Not too difficult as we will be building one ourselves over the next few days. Check out Unfretted's hexaphonic break out box and keep coming back for sporadic updates. We will be including all the info to build a custom job to your own specification.

Roland 13 pin system:
This carries six individual signals from the hex transducer AND a single audio feed from the guitar's normal electrics.
If you add a GK pickup there is a flying lead which plugs into your normal guitar jack.

Pinouts & wiring colours, 13 pin DIN cable
Pinouts for the 13 pin DIN connector used with the Roland VG8, VG-88, GR1, GR9, GR20, GR30, GR33, GR50, GI10, GI20, GKP-4, Boss DC-20G, WP-20G, Roland Ready Strat, Axon AX100, Yamaha G50, G1-D, Ibanez RG470GK, Brian Moore Guitars + lots of others.
The Roland cables are good quality 13 core, with a braided copper screen
The pins, signals and wire colours are as follows:
1 - String 1 - Brown2 - String 2 - Blue3 - String 3 - Grey4 - String 4 - Orange5 - String 5 - Pink6 - String 6 - Purple7 - Normal pickups - Green8 - MIDI volume - Yellow / Stripe9 - Unused - Yellow10 - Switch 1 - Red11 - Switch 2 - White / Stripe12 - +ve supply - White13 - -ve supply - Black
These were taken from a Roland cable manufactured in 1998.
Cables do vary and we have also seen the following colours used:
1 - Red2 - Pink3 - Yellow4 - Green5 - Light Green6 - Orange7 - Light Blue8 - Blue9 - Grey10 - Brown11 - White12 - Black13 - Purple
One medium quality cable you may come across with a 13 pin DIN connector was used by the Atari ST computer. (For the monitor we think) This was not a 13 core cable, but a 12 core cable, the cable screen was wired to pin 13:
1 - Purple2 - Grey3 - Dark Green4 - Blue5 - Pink6 - Turquoise7 - Red8 - Brown9 - Yellow10 - White11 - Orange12 - Black13 - Screen
To modify this cable for GK use, first remove the screen from pin 13 and attach to the metalwork of the plug itself. Disconnect the yellow wire from pin 9 and wire to pin 13.(Don't forget to do this at both ends)
This cable would be OK connecting equipment together but the plug is non-locking, so take care if using with an instrument.

13 pin DIN sockets and plugs
Well you know if you have tried, these are devilishly difficult to get hold of.
Medium quality non-locking plugs are available in the UK from Maplin, order code JW95D.
In the US http://www.digikey.com/ supply a range of connectors. Currently the only sell to businesses with a minimum order of $250. (Thanks to Chris Waite for this info)
High quality plugs and sockets are available from Hosiden in Japan, download the adobe pdf "DIN connectors" from the http://www.hosiden.co.jp/ webpage. Their UK distributors, Hosiden Besson Phone: +44-1273-860000, will only sell in quantities in the thousands! (Thanks again to Chris Waite for this info) Non locking plug - TCP9365Non locking PCB mount socket - TCS5044Locking plug - TCP9361Locking PCB mount socket - TCS5115 (EMC rated TCS5116)
In Germany http://www.reichelt.de/ supply medium quality, non-locking types, helps if you speak German!Male plug - SE-DIO 13PCB mount socket - EB-DIO 13Inline female socket - K-DIO 13Now it depends where you are, and how you get along with German language. Minimum order for Germany is 10.- Euro and abroad 150.-(!)Euro e-mail is "info @ reichelt.de" (remove spaces)

Roland GK2A, GK3A
Essentially, these are add on units, The GK2A has been around since at least 1997 and late in 2004 the GK3A made an appearance.
Installing either of these on a guitar requires a little skill and patience to set them up to perform anywhere close to RMC equipped guitars.
Having both of these units gives us a little insight; we don't see much advantage of the GK3A over the GK2A - just easier to fit, but looks and feels cheaper, plus the main switch is a pig to get used to. The GK2A's switch to control output was very easy to flick while playing, the GK3A isn't, physically it is more difficult, a casual glance doesn't let you know what position its in.
Hopefully the price for the GK2A will drop when supplies of the GK3A are more dominant, discontinued bargains waiting we hope!
Peter Woolls has designed a scratchplate adapter for the GK2A pickup which is for sale on his ebay page:stores.ebay.co.uk/Gotta-have-It

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a new revelation in the Guitar World

Fernando Perez is a new revelation in the Guitar World, he plays Western Classical, Jazz, Flamenco, Hawaiian, Traditional Blues, Latin, Indian, Afrikan, as well as other styles from the latest contemporary to the deep traditions.He combines it all with his originality and interesting view of the world to create a smooth and fresh music that can not be classified. Choosing different instruments such as Resophonic, Hawaiian lap steel, Indian or Flamenco guitars as the color of his sound, we have old and new music performed in old although new instruments that put the soul into ease.
All this along with a wide background in music and culture makes this artist a wonderful choice for those who want to give their musical taste a new flavor.
In a lifetime odyssey Fernando has dedicated his time since the age of seven to learn about music and cultures, studying in world known centers, traveling to many places and performing with the most curious people.
Born in the town of Ejea de los Caballeros, Zaragoza, Fernando’s first contact with classical music was throughout the conservatory of Spain, he studied in the ones located in Zaragoza and Navarra. After these came numerous private instructors and music centers such as ‘Instituto de Musica’ in Zaragoza, ‘Escuela Cardiel’, ’L’Aula de Musica’ in Barcelona, ‘Escuela de Musica Creativa’ in Madrid, ‘Musicians Institute’ in Hollywood, California and Maharaja Sawai Mansingh Sangeet Mahavidyalaya in Jaipur, India.
In these centers he studied classical and contemporary guitar in such styles as Jazz, Funk, Blues, etc, as well as harmony, composition, arrangements, orchestration, ear training, rhythm, sound engineering, production and other special courses such as Film Scoring, Ethnic music, Jazz in the 90s, advanced ear training, etc.
But his interest took him to learn more directly from artits and their cultures, traveling to different places to not only learn but to experience the spirit of the different musical styles.
Nowadays you can realize this experience throughout the talent of this artist who has performed with artists from such exotic places as Hawai’i, Cuba, Jamaica, West Africa, Japan, South, Central and North America, Spain, France, Ireland, India, etc.
The guitar has always been his passion, an instrument which he explores in its many forms, starting by the spanish classical guitar, acoustic, electric, Dobros or resophonic guitars and continuing with ohter interesting ones such as african, hawaiian ki Ho'alu (Slack Key) and Kika Kila (Steel Guitar), the ‘slide’ style from Mississippi, Flamenco, or even the curious way of playing guitar in hindustani music found in India.
He also explores new horizons reflected throughout his arrangements and compositions based on instruments of different cultures, examples are the japanese Koto, chinese Pipa, or african Ngoni and Kora.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/fernandoperez4

How to learn guitar

Knowing how the guitar strings are identified is foundational to everything else you will learn on the guitar. You will find this first lesson to be very easy and straight-forward, but don't overlook it's importance! With that said, lets begin!

Did you know that you already understand something about playing the guitar? That’s right! Seven simple letters:

A B C D E F G

These seven letters make up the MUSICAL ALPHABET and with them you will learn:

How the Strings are Identified
How the Fretboard Works
How to Read Music
How to Play Chords

It's a good idea to become familiar with the various parts of a guitar before we go any further. Take a minute or so right now to examine the graphics below.

ACOUSTIC GUITAR















Here is another graphic showing the parts of an electric guitar.

ELECTRIC GUITAR




The basic guitar is equipped with six strings. They are numbered in order from the highest sounding (first), down to the lowest sounding (sixth).
1 = First (high)
2 = Second
3 = Third
4 = Fourth
5 = Fifth
6 = Sixth (low)


Each one is also identified with a letter from the Musical Alphabet:

1 = E
2 = B
3 = G
4 = D
5 = A
6 = E
Here is a simple acrostic which I have my students use to help them memorize the letters associated with each string. Start from the sixth and move up to the first.
--------------------------------------------------1 = Ears--------
------------------------------------------2 = Big------------------
----------------------------------3 = Grow------------------------
--------------------------4 = Dogs--------------------------------
------------------5 = And-----------------------------------------
----------6 = Elephants-------------------------------------------

They are referred to as OPEN tones when played in this manner.

LESSON OBJECTIVE: To memorize the letters and numbers associated with each string.

PRACTICE: Play the open by starting on the sixth string and moving to the first. Say the acrostic out loud as you hear the sound of each tone. Then repeat the process saying just the first letter of each word in the acrostic. After you have memorized the letters associated with each tone in this order, try saying them in reverse by starting on the first and moving back to the sixth.
FOR FURTHER STUDY:
See the next lesson to learn about the different types of guitars and how to hold one.
I hope you enjoyed your first lesson on how to identify the guitar strings. Now you're on your way to learning how to play the guitar!

The old hindi melody

This nstrumental track was downloaded 567 times in the last month from my site at www.muziboo.com

sreenarayanaguru smrithi