A musical night-out...

Different people have disparate notions of music. For some people music is everything in life. For some others, its just an avocation. Music is something that is very close to my heart. I hear a myriad of genres and enjoy them totally. But what does it take to create or rather re-create music? Something that was a dream for me came to fruition on one night. The most general connotations associated with the term music are joy and more importantly satisfaction. I did experience that joy and satisfaction recently. For the first time in my college life, I had to kill a day`s sleep for a non-academic cause, which of all things happened to for Nittfest.
"A duet?? Me n another guy?? "!!! .. We were to sing a song together and for such a situation, the first song that flashed my mind was the Rajni-Sathyaraj starrer "Ennama Kannu" from the movie Mr.Bharath. The parts pertaining to Rajni were to be sung by me and the other part by a friend of mine. Our show was on the following day at 8AM. And we hadn't practiced even once. So it was 10 PM when we met and tried singing it together, just to realize that our pitches were way beyond synchronism. Come what may, we just decided to keep it this way and rehearsed quite a few times. Then comes Varun, a music troupe inmate, a friend of mine whom we had called to have a mild musical base to support the song. He listened to the song and came up with a suggestion. The very first thing he told us was that we had lot of time!!! Me and my friend were staring at each other, for it was 1 PM now and we had very less time left. Then he said "Forget your sleep tonight". Now that is what gave me the bent. He suggested a different song.. "Pachai Nirame" from the film Alaipayuthey. So we started listening to the song and he enumerated the finer details of the song which we had to incorporate to make it harmonious. By now, we were already half satisfied with this guy proving his mettle over the keyboard, something i regret for not learning when i was a kid. We rehearsed for 5 hours continuously,and during this time the phenomenon of "Sleep" not crossing my mind even once. We were so involved that we never even checked the time. It was amazing to watch this dexterous guy play the instrument with such speed and authority. By the end of the session, we were quite confident that we could make an impact in the show.
Whether we won or not is not yet known to me. But winning has never mattered to me. It was fun, it was satisfying, and enthralling for it was another page in the book titled "My Experiments with Music".

Musically Yours...