I was exploring random Piano Pieces on youtube, and suddenly I found some songs 'Laga chunari mein daag' and 'Jaane kaha gaye wo din' played by raga pianist Utsav lal. These peices were played in concert by this 15 yr old boy, and I was so impressed by him that I want to follow the way of his learning. After exploring a lot, I got to know, classical training is the base for this kind of performances. I never showed interest in indian classical before, because I didn't know anything about it. But I tried to see theory of indian classical like Ragas, Taal and all. I just started. I listened few ragas as well like raga yaman, hamsadhwani. And I also listened hamsadhwani palyed by utsav on piano. I was so impressed by this that I digged into hamsadhwani and related theory. And these peices or music theory are so great that you can proceed in right direction by following this theory. Raga played on piano with tabla is so enthralling that I decided to learn atleast one raga and improvise this. It is the best part that you can experiment as much as you can on indian classical. And it appears very impressive as well.The simple irritating 'aaAAaa..' sung by some pandits used to bore a lot, but how important and how indepth practice needed for that to come out, i now understand, and it is very very important to know all these things for a player to perform. Why sonu nigam is better than other singer, simply because he is strong in classical. He say 'if classical is strong then every thing will go right'.
