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Lesson 2 – Learn Janti Varase Online

Janti Varase

Learn Janti Varase (Janta Varasai) through these sing along lessons. This album contains 1 – 7 popular Janti Varase (Janta Varasai) in all three different speeds. The lessons are in teacher student format. Hence the student can listen and then sing along. After a few repetitions of learning, the student can easily sing along. The Shruti is at G and is generally suitable for both male and female. But individual pitch may be different.

Benefits of Janti Varase:

  1. Janti Varase introduces Twin or Double notes to the students e.g. singing notes together like Sa-Sa, Ri-Ri, Ga-Ga etc. Singing various combinations of these lays the string foundation of Gamakas, which are needed later on for learning complex compositions.
  2. Helps build agility of tongue movements and technique for faster rendering.
  3. Introduces various patterns in the Mayamalava Gowla Raaga and strengthens cognitive pattern recognition pathways.

Notation:

For Janti Varase lyrics please click here.

Sing Along Audio Lesson:

Janti Varase is provided in the abridged format. In this format, the three speeds of the Janti Varase are completed in 1 or 2 cycles of Taala and hence keeps the rendition shorter. Both the short and long renditions are technically correct.

To listen and learn Janti Varase, please click the video below.

Taala Demonstration for Janti Varase:

Important: Each beat in the demonstration below gets a double beat. So its two of each beat adding upto a total of 16 beats.

 

Other Basic Concepts you should know for this lesson:

Concept of Shruti

Concept of Swara

Concept of Taala

Concept of Raaga

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