CARNATIC MANDOLIN CLASSES

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Shastriya Mandolin Sikshana : The tradition of Mandolin wisdom has to be taught and encouraged for the younger generation. The couple Mandolin U.P.Raju and Nagamani having been teaching students from young age in India and coaching them to a stage of giving their own performances, Utilizing the advanced technologies like Skype and Whatsapp.

Our tradition speaks highly of respecting Gurus and gaining Sangeetha Sikshana through this divine wisdom. Sri U.P.Raju and Smt.U.Nagamani both humbly thank their lineage of Gurus. Their Guru, Sri Rudraraju Subbaraju, had been a disciple of reputed Sri Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar. Sri Rudraraju Subbaraju was instrumental in introducing Mandolin to the field of Indian Classical Carnatic Music. He was a vocalist who used to sing and explain the subtleties of Music and Gamakas which Sri U.P. Raju tried in his own style to adopt the phrases on the Mandolin. Smt.U.Nagamani learnt mandolin under the loving and caring guidance of her uncle and mentor Sri Mandolin U.P.Raju. While dedicating their work to their honorable Guru Sri.R.Subbaraju, who brought into light the greatness of Mandolin to Carnatic world, they conduct annual Guru Aradhana for him and do ceremonies to Honor the wisdom of divine teachers.

Both Sri U.P.Raju and Smt.Nagamani give special training for kids who like to learn Mandolin and make them experts. Their focus on training kids to coach them and make them skilled by classes is a service to music community and great opportunity to aspirants as they love to share this exclusive knowledge of Carnatic Mandolin, both in technique and practice. The coaching is done both in person and for remote students online classes are available. This advanced musical instrument of Electric Carnatic Mandolin gained popularity with the current technology times and it keeps children get introduced our ancient tradition, our divine culture at the same time bringing the benefit of improvement in discipline, practice to perfection and useful memory development skills. Much research worldwide has proven that playing instruments improve fine motor skills. With easy to pick up syllabus and advancements kids achieve a lot with their fresh perspective when started at a young age. Even in the western world its recognized that this taste for music at an early age goes a long way in life for appreciation of art and also contributing to good academic and career development.

For advanced learning of adults want to enter into learning Mandolin requires special private or group classes, where the pace of learning has to be customized to ensure clear understanding yet learning at relevant speeds based on the level of the student. Sri.Raju and Smt.U.Nagamani utilize a customized curriculum for enhanced learning. Adult students who are learning from them like the way they were made to learn the intricacies of the Mandolin instrument and at the same time the ease of making them practice while getting day over day progress in the music. Years of coaching made this duo the reliable source of Carnatic Mandolin learning. There are special challenges for the Mandolin learning may be - starting from finding the right instrument to buy from a trustworthy source to getting the instrument tuned and playing advanced gamakas, all this is helped by these Gurus of extremely mastered knowledge.