INVENTED NEW MUSIC PEDAGOGY

Shri Vedavyasa Rangabhattar, Writer, Singer, and Lyricist from Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh has great innovation in musical pedagogy and these compositions provide effective lessons in learning music. (Dvadasa-Shodasa Swara Samooha Raga Sri Venkateswara Gitalu, (shortly, Swara Gnana Varshini ). He had invented Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni and the scores of their combinations scare them, they tried with short words like ‘Ra-ma’ and ‘Go-vin-da’ for two and three-syllable Swaras to make practice easier. He also paid tributes to Lord Venkateswara by extensively using the word, Govinda, for many Swaras. As children learn by rewriting on a slate, students learn the twelve and sixteen note positions ( Swara Sthanamulu ) by playing them on a keyboard.