Young Achievers' Music Performance Course
(Better performance of different genres, to be completed maximum in 4 years)

Here the students -

» Will come having completed the “Arohee” course of Shrutinandan in details.

» Will know the meaning of all the songs of “Arohee” course, read all their lyrics, with proper Tali/Khali in hands before singing, and then learn to sing them, and write the detailed gayaki of the swaras, that is, the picture-notes of the songs.

» Will learn to read and play the 8 Talas already learnt in “Arohee” with their correct musical sounds and accents, and also to learn at least 4 types of improvisations of each Theka of the Talas and to read them correctly in Shrutinandan process.

» Will achieve the ability to sing having played Tanpura themselves simultaneously keeping Tali/Khali in Shrutinandan process in the finest accuracy.

» Will learn to tune the Tanpura correctly in first 2 years, and then in the next 2 years to learn to fix the necessary steel or bronze wires of right gauge on it according to pitch.

» Will learn two “Quida” with their “vistar” and to use them in their singing in Shrutinandan process.

» Will learn to sing basic constructions of Sargam-taan (taan with swaras), AA-Kar Tann (taan with “AA” vowel) and Bol-taan (taan with the words of lyric) etc. when singing Khyal in primary level.

» Will learn to sing with correct pronunciation and enunciation of Sanskrit Slokas on – “Surya Pranam”, “Shanti Bachan”, “Ganesh Pranam”, “Guru Pranam Mantra”.

» Will learn two Dhrupad songs and one Dhamar song in Choutaal and Sultaal.

» Will read the book “Shrutinandan” thoroughly in-between lines.

» Will learn to sing “Vilambit Bandish” (composition) accurately in Shrutinandan process (Raga : Kafi, Todi, Basant Mukhari, Bilawal from Geetinandan-I and Malkauns, Yaman from Geetinandan-II).

» Will learn to sing “Bandish” (composition) in different Talas in Madhya Laya composing them sensibly in different Raga phrases in Shrutinandan process.

Madhya Laya Bandish (compositions) will be as selected by Shrutinandan in the following Ragas :

a) Todi
b) Bihag
c) Maalkauns
d) Poorvee
e) Raageshree
f) Jaunpuri
g) Desh
h) Khamaaj
i) Jog
j) Basant Mukhari

» Will learn Drut Bandish in following Ragas (Bandish compositions will be as selected by Shrutinandan) :

a) Desh
b) Maalkauns
c) Raageshree
d) Raageshree
e) Kaafi
f) Bairaagi
g) Jog
h) Todi
i) Basant Mukhaari
f) Bilaawal
g) Baageshree
h) Baageshree

Some of the above compositions are available in recorded form in “Geetinandan” Part I & II and others are the old traditional compositions of great Masters.

» Will write fluently Bengali songs in Bengali script, Hindi songs in Hindi script and songs of other languages in Roman script.

» Will learn Major, Minor and other basic chords and know how to play them on a Harmonium or a Keyboard.

» Will learn the lessons of voice training and voice culture in details in Shrutinandan process.

List of other songs of “STHAYEE” Course :
(Songs / Compositions will be as selected by Shrutinandan)

› Tillaanaa (Raga Hindolam)

› Tillaanaa (Raga Kalyani)

› Karnataki (Varnam Raga Gambheernat)

› Karnataki (Kritee Raga Suposhinee)

› Tarana (Raga Jog)

› Tarana (Raga Yaman)

› 2 Dadras (composed by Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty)

› 1 Kajri (Traditional)

› 1 Chaitee (Traditional)

› 1 Hori (Traditional)

› 4 songs of Tagore

› 2 Bengali songs of Qazi Najrul Islam

› 1 Bengali song of Rajani Kanta Sen

› 1 Bengali song of Dwijendra Lal Roy

› 1 Bengali song of Atul Prasad Sen

› 4 Bengali songs of Guru Jnan Prakash Ghosh

› 2 Bengali songs of Jatileshwar Mukhopadhyay

› 8 Bhajans (devotional songs)

› 4 Ghazals