Thursday, March 18, 2010

CARVA - A Learning Experience

(Excerpt from my another blog) written on Aug 22, 2008

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." – Chinese Proverb

Learning at CARVA is fun. CARVA school stands for the quintessential Carnatic music instrument called violin. The founder of this school, our guru, Shri. CA Rajasekar is one of the greatest violinist and a wonderful guru. Started in 2000, CARVA has been successful in teaching violin among all age groups with simple and easy bowing techniques.

What is special about this school? – the school is unique by itself. CARVA gives a lot of exposure to all the students by organizing performances. The students get a good amount of confidence while playing in front of huge audiences.

Shri. CA Rajasekar’s teaching is par beyond excellence. He ensures that every student gets his / her fundamentals correct while learning violin even if it means spending more number of classes. In order to play violin, bowing technique, finger placement are two important things that one needs to get it correct before learning different swaras.
The initial classes at CARVA concentrate more on holding violin and bow in the right position. Once a student gets his / her basics right he /she starts loving to enjoy and learn more and more from him. Only here, you could find people of all age groups learn under the tutelage of him. What makes our guru stand apart from all others is that his ability to bring out the best in every student whom he has trained and nurtured in music right from the first class (open string Sa)

He demonstrates high amount of patience and perseverance to ensure that every student comes out the best. Learning at CARVA is an experience. Every class is filled with a right mixture of training, fun, creativity, theory of music. Every class at CARVA is vibrant, positive and kindles the fire in the students to learn more and more from him.
For people like us, who have taken learning violin as a break from our mundane work, every class is still more an alluring learning experience every class.
I am sure this is the only school that provides plethora of learning / playing experience throughout the year right from playing at the Samadhi of Saint Thyagaraja to the annual CARVA festival. The school not only concentrates on the finer aspects of playing violin but also imparts musical theory which is a fundamental knowledge one should possess while learning music in any form. He derives utmost pleasure when he sees the entire batch playing violin in unison without any mistakes.

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