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8.2 Your first varnam
Learn a first varnam, section by section, at first speed.
This will take weeks and is meant to. A varnam is the first piece that has to be practised rather than learned, and finishing one changes what you can do with everything that came before.
Work through these
Learn the pallavi alone.
karnATik — Beginner lessons · TutorialLearn the anupallavi and the muktayi swara.
Learn the charanam and the chittaswaras.
Play the whole varnam through in tala at first speed.
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