Ok, now that everyone's "confessing" their music-learning crimes, let me state mine. It has a happy beginning.
We've always had singers in the family. My grandmother sang, dad played the flute and his brother the flute and the violin. Cousins sang. So I wasn't pushed into learning carnatic music as much as just gently nudged along by 2 generations of family-pressure. I started on the vocal thing, but couldn't keep up with the lessons because we kept moving houses. And along the way, my voice broke. So, off I went trying to learn the violin and the flute. Which didn't hold my interest and so Mridangam. Three years, where I came up to learning the "korvais" and the gumukas and started off on learning how to do the "adi thaalam" to a basic song. And then, I moved, my teacher moved and I lost my mridangam. I think I should start again. C -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ +91-9884467463
