Veyiloda velayadi ( Veyyil )

Harshan Nambiar said

Maruthi ……not at all familiar but this was just TERRIFIC loved the way you modulated the voice and brought that folk aspect in this rendition ….you have a great upper range just felt a little nasal ….other than this is just superb.

5/5 from me ……especially LIKED the “anja paisa part….” lovely modulations.

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Srividya Kasturi said

Nice modulations, Maruthi…:) Liked ur singing, though there were a few offnotes in the charanams. Overall very enjoyable!

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Meena S said

Hey Maruthi,Here you go.Overall the rendition was very enjoyable.I am not a big fan of this song personally.But I loved your rendition very much.you have sung with the right attitude for this song :).Have you done the retake/cut at some points and joined both??.It sounded very obvious in “solathatta-puzhudhi dhan”.It felt strenous reaching the higher registers at some places.Pls take care of that.Also I could hear a lot of off notes.Kudos to you for giving an energitic performance :).

Kumar Srinivasan said

Maruthi, very well sung with the right amount of energy. No doubt this is a tough song and you have done a great job covering three singers. I have not heard the original but your delivery of the song and attitude was great. There were a few off notes but nothing major. Keep it up.
-Kumar.

Arun Raja said

Good one !!

Thinkal govind kumar said

My Dear Maruthi,
Expressive rendition of a difficult song with perfect modulation ! I loved it & added it to my favourites !
Hearty Congrats ! Full stars to you !
GOD Bless !
Loving Best Wishes,
Thinkal Govind Kumar.

Rahul Soman said

Maruthi,

Hats off to you!!! You really have lot of passion to sing you a song which like. Your voice modulation were good. Immense talent. Keep singing .

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way”

Murali Ramanathan said

Maruthi…well rendedered….Folk touches were excellent…

Warm Regards,
Murali Ram

Subbu said

Lovely try of an relatively unfamiliar but difficult song.You have done proper justice to this song.BTW I am a big fan of this movie-One serious attempt to portray the “failed hero”-Back here heard it twice already-Yeah It is growing on me too

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Rajesh Raman said

Hi Maruthi…. Enjoyed it very much… definitely one among your best…. Into my Fav for sure.!

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Jenefa said

Maruthi brother….

Kalakkal…Superb energetic performance!!!!

I like Tippu and Benny dayal in this generation of singers…for their versatile singing! And you know this is one of Paul’s favorite for it’s lyrics and for those cute village kids, bringing back all his flashbacks :D…So i’ve heard this song countless times and you’ve completely done justice to the song…

I’ve already heard yours three times….

Please try to do “Maduraikku pogadhedi” from ATM…

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Jenefa

Jenefa said

I was really busy in work, just peeked to get a break…Now completely distracted…OMG!!!

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Pradip somasundaran said

Maruthi, you need not be apologetic about this one of yours……Was really awesome! Just a few off notes here and there. But it does not mar your superlative energetic effort in anyway.

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Meena S said

This is a tough song and and you have done that all thats completely fine.Agreed.But,regrds the above said comments,all joiners shouldnt sound very obvious.It sounded quite odd to my ears.I dont agree with you upon the high pitches.If all high pitches needs to be sung with only strain then all the songs in the world of Indian cinema would only sound like melodious strains and not melodious :).I could hear the same in “solathatta”.Hope you dont take me wrong.These comments are all just for the sake of betterment.
I think you seem to understand your singing better than anyone commenting.

Pradip somasundaran said

Ha ha ha……hey guys don’t argue :) Was curious to see both Meena’s comment and Maruthis answser. Well my personal opinion is that NI2 (the same note that maruthi has sung) is achievable at a certain amount of comfort. Please hear my latest post “Man Ki Lagan”. It has a NI2 in it. And I surely can go up two more notes in a really powered up mood :) Maruthi, still your rendition is top notch….no two minds on that!
Lets have peace :) :) :)

Meri Awaz Suno

Theagaraj Dhanapalan (kindly bear my absence for some time.. best regards) said

Really Awesome.

Now I have got your voice strength “wow” its goes to very high notes so easily. Very flexible and clear.

Your performance is superb and totally excellent job.

I have enjoyed.

Congrats

D.Theagaraj

Meena S said

Hey Maruthi,You are right,there needs to be a balance in understanding.That would be accomplished only thru discussions.Now here is my answer to your quesn from Pradip ji :)…Thanks a lot Pradip ji.You have made my job much easier :).I am glad that you where curious to see my comments too:).Now lets chill out based on the comments from our more experienced Pradip ji.koool :).

Rashmi Nair said

Very good rendition Maruthi. A really tough song, and its an excellent attempt. Slight off-notes here and there, but thats negligible compared to the dynamics you have captured. 5/5 from me!

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Pradip somasundaran said

Maruthi, you are wrong.I have sung it in G#-Sa, D#-Pa, G#-Sa being the sa-pa-sa of my scale for the song. That makes my scale G#.I have the keyboard right in front of me now. Your scale is G-D-G which makes your scale G which is half a note less than my scale. In your scale you have reached G for sollathattu and a note higher for 3 seconds for the “ae ae ae” (each beat considered) that makes it A with lot of strain as you agree.
In my song I have gone up to G# which is half a note higher than the note you came up to for sollathattu. This is in western notations.
If you take carnatic or hindustani you came up to
Sa and just touched Ri in the scale “G-D-G” of your song. In my song in the scale G#-D#-G#, I have sung G# for my “Ra” in " TE RA……" for some time and then have touched A# for “TUJH KO” that makes it half a note higher than “Sa” of your scale for my “Ra” in “TE RA….” and another half note higher than “Ri” of your scale for “TUJH KO”.

Take your keyboard and see it. I have a Triton LE which is set to worldwide tuning standards.

The simple fact is that that the scale of your song is in “G” and mine is in “G#(sharp)”. This simple fact will make everything clear. Also we both have sung in the same octaves of our respective scales :) Any other more knowledgeable person can contradict me if I am wrong. I would also be glad to demonstrate it with the actual Tanpura/Keyboard SA-PA-SA notes Shruti drone if you want. And please this is only an educative discussion on music in general. This will educate every one including me in the process. It is sometimes good to have such discussions than the normal, “It’s awesome”, “I liked it” kind of stuff that we normally are used to hearing.

Also, typically in the south we are used to learning music at lower scales and so we are handicapped when it comes to singing a full song in a very high scale. We have amazing singers like Ghantasala, T.M.S, SPB, KJY, and of course Balamurali, who occasionally have gone up to very high notes, and Seerkazhi who was different from the above mentioned ones, but they all are more comfortable in C or C# etc. This is not the case with the “demonically” trained sufi singers who shout at throat breaking decibels from pakistan. Well the problem is that as they train at those high scales and they are never comfortable at lower scales. I personally am not a big fan of “shouted singing”, though I may have had to sing such songs on stage or even in films, as I have opted to sing and entertain for films and programs and on public platforms though on a part time basis. We have most of the new generation singers in Indin films like Sukhwinder, K.K, Daler Mehndi, Kailash Kher, javed Ali, and the paki singers like Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shafqat Amanat Ali etc. who relish singing at high pitches. Today sadly nobody needs deep voiced singers any more in the industry. If K.L Saigal or Mukesh was singing today, they would have been just ignored by our so called industry. :(

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Murali Venkatraman said

Maruthi:

Finally you can yourself see where you are when u apply yourself patiently. this was a brilliant rendition bringing out the flavors of all three singers. Kudos !

Seems like there is some interesting discussion here which I have not read yet. Will chk later.

Kumaran said

This was a very good rendition, Maruthi. Off pitches can be ignored as the listener is able to enjoy the flavor of this song very well. Was very energetic too!!!

Choco Choc said

hi maruthi,,gr8 energy….good attempt :)

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Arvind R said

Just read above interesting discussions and listened to both songs rendered by Pradip and Maruthi.

First of all, in a song, it is very important to reach high notes while still singing!. We can measure a singing note on a musical keyboard, but it is impossible to measure a forceful shouting note in a musical keyboard. To measure something that does not conform to the pre-determined musical scaled intervals, you will need a audio Hz scientific machine. The point here being that music should be talked in terms of its musical notes, not in terms of 988.77 hz etc. World music has pre-determined scales and intervals that we are all used to. Off notes happen when we fall in a frequency between these intervals and it becomes no longer musical, but just noise!.

Coming to the songs:

In Pradip’s Mani Ki Lagan’s song:
“Aaaaaa. Tera Tujko” ad libbing part.
The “Tuj” in Tujko actually touches N1 (B Flat) of Tara Sthayi. There is no doubt in this. I just checked with my Yamaha Motif Keyboard. This has passed the musical test for my ears. Very difficult to touch that note by a baritone male voice and kudos to Pradip for doing that musically.

In Maruthi’s Veyiloda song:
The highest pitch is not so clear as the song is not in complete tune with my keyboard in normal setting!. By that I mean, the pitch is somewhere in between normal scaling which suggests that the track has had some manipulation since its original birth. Maruthi did touch Dha1 (G#) in the Tara Sthayi in his humming. Although my keyboard was not completely in sync I was able to make this out. However, the singing was all a bit off key for me to measure anything accurate to be honest. To my ears it was not totally musical at the high notes. So it was falling in some frequency but not a musical frequency I dare say!.

Maruthi, you have sung the song quite well otherwise but in the high notes it is not very clear as to what note you are hitting musically … although I can say you touched G# in the Tara Sthayi.

By my reckoning Pradip has the higher note of B Flat over Maruthi’s G# in the Tara Sthayi.

Cheers guys.

Subbu said

In a lighter vein,If I can play a PS Veerappa-SABASH-SARIYANA POTTI!

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Arvind R said

Just one more thing I would like to bring to your attention Maruthi:

Check the following link for musical frequencies. It gives the musical note and the frequency next to it.
http://www.techlib.com/reference/musical_note_frequencies.htm

I cannot find the 988.77 hz or the 830.61 hz that you refer to, in the above academic chart. This tells me that these are mathematical issues and not musical issues. For musical issues, we should stick to our musical notes and more importantly our trained ears!.

They say that the present day musical system evolved out of 22 shruthis as opposed to just the 12 we have now. That is another matter but nevertheless interesting. Imagine the struggles we will have to sing in 22 notes per octave!. I heard that Balamurali can actually hear those 22 notes and also demonstrate it.

Music is great!.

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Mruthy,

Very nice work.Energy packed singing. Congrat…
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Pradip somasundaran said

Maruthi, I would like to close this discussion on a very practical note. The question finally that arises is can I sing the same notes in the same scale that you have done. Well here is the answer.

http://www.pradipsomasundaran.com/test.mp3

(Please excuse me for the words or the style or the slang as my intention is only to demonstrate the range)

Also bear in mind that, I have sung only a phrase here at random and if I were to sing the entire song after learning it and some rehearsals my voice could even go to higher notes once my throat is warmed up. You being a professional know that it is the same for any singer.
Also its a fact that the song of your scale is half a note lower than the song Man Ki Lagan. No explanation can take that away. Anyone can actually see that if one has a Keyboard. Regarding dynamic range of a song, it’s very subjective and depends on the singers voice range. Those who have a high ranged voice can easily sing the same song easily while those with lower ranges would struggle.
You are also silent on the vast range of singers I mentioned, who have a terrific range who sing in films today. You said no Indian singer can sing in that range without strain. All those singers belt out high pitched numbers without any strain. Even the song that you have sung was originally sung by some one without strain and that is why it came out in a film.
Aravind thanks for joining this interesting discussion. I do hope many of us would have “strained” their heads in the process and would have gained some knowledge. Maruthi, I am so happy to hear of your achievements. I also hope we work together some day in the future.

Meri Awaz Suno

Pradip somasundaran said

Maruthi. Not again………about sangathi….!!!!leave it. Any way I have sung the next higher note the Aa…for your happiness :)Lets have peace……
yes, will be happy to work with you. And you need not be terrified of me. My heart only speaks the language of music and love :)

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Meera Manohar said

Maruthi— one of your best renditions to date.

Good cover and a very good differentiation between 3 voices. Vvery few off notes through the song.

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Arvind R said

Maruthi,

Your personal comments regarding session musicians addressed to me are a bit comical and irrelevant to the issue at hand!. In fact it shows how much respect you have for session musicians. Oh I forgot, you are a ONE-MAN WONDER MUSICIAN! … I dare say lost in his own world!!.

The fact is you have NOT demonstrated musical singing at the really high note of N1 in Tara Sthayi which is what you claimed originally. However, I was able to detect that note clearly in Pradip’s singing after he pointed it out. We are talking about a very specific issue here, whereas you have started to digress.

Pradip has now sung the lines of this song (see link in his post above). His “Aaa…” touches A in Tara Sthayi. In fact he touched half note higher (B Flat) in ‘TUjko’ in his Man Ki song as I mentioned earlier. So this is clear proof for anyone concerned. Gracefully accept it and move on. THE ISSUE STARTED ONLY BECAUSE YOU REBUTTED PRADIP’S CLAIM IN THE FIRST PLACE.

This is a discussion board, so you can expect people reading to add their point of views. There are some very musically savvy people here, who by the way have no need to rave on about their accomplishments!.

If you are claiming and rebutting somebody, you can expect appropriate responses, where the facts will be drawn out!.

If you want to address anymore personal remarks at me, which do not pertain to the main issue, feel free to do so. But please also be prepared to get back some of my special ones too, that are likely to beat your brand of Irish humour!.

It’s a closed issue for me. Bye.

Murali Venkatraman said

Maruthi:

Quoting you:

“The reason I upload more Krk track is cause I dont want to put my compositions to a open community like this……other wise I would have had some 100 own songs filled up this place. The compositions I put here in muziboo are honestly not my best. Anybody who knows me personally seen me and heard my songs and performance will tell that. I have already scored Irish based films with bigger bands like and Republic of loose the supporting band of U2 . I am also in construction of a studio in chennai . Why should I say this here? because I am answering a respectable person in Muziboo people should not just under estimate me for who I am.”

I am sorry to say this, but this passage smacks of highhandedness and taking listeners for granted. It is completely your prerogative to showcase songs/compositions of your choice due to whatever reasons you may have. However u seem to forget a simple thing : ‘What you present is what counts towards a listener’s opinion’.

I strongly believe that given there are no commercial constraints with amateurs, it is important for them to present their sincerest effort. Blogswara was founded with this intention. Many singles being produced here have the same agenda.

If you are a professional, you may be constrained by commercial contracts. If you cannot present the entire song if it were to find a place in an album, at least the teasers you post should be of high quality (That is what any world music band does).

Posting compositions of self-admittedly inferior quality only speaks of insincerity towards the art and the audience. Since you have overtly confessed that the works you present here are not your best, I am not sure what I should be looking forward to listening here in the future (or if I should be looking forward to at all).

Good luck with your music making.

Krishnan N v said

It took a long time to reach the bottom of the page to post a comment…:)

Sorry for being late here… You were awesome Maruthi…Not familiar with the song, though felt you did a great job.,.,You have a great range…

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Jenefa said

Wow….there are so many things going on here!!!Informative though :)

Regarding how safe the original compositons are, if there is no proper copyright…there’s already a thread here started by Mussawer Mohammed may be an year ago.Here’s the link….

http://www.muziboo.com/groups/original-music/discussions/fake-singers

BTW He is such a nice composer, love most of his songs :)

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Dhiraj Barla said

OK that was a pretty long comment section for any song i have ever posted my comment in Muziboo, may be i missed some before, but nevertheless this is the first one.

Maruthi, first of all kudos to you for taking up such a difficult song that too sung by three different singers. You have done an excellent job in covering all three of them. I usually rate your higher registers very high, read some comments about ur range, i think you have a pretty decent range in Muziboo…. Very good attempt of a tough song man. Keep them coming.

Vimal Vijayan said

Wow, personally I liked the song ! It sure is a difficult song to try. and you have sung it in two voices. Commendable effort !

Im totally new here and yet to learn the features and stuffs.

Vinay Chowdry said

Difficult song but good rendition bro :) Well done keep it up:)Listen to my uploads and give ur valuable comments buddy :)
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