Abstract:
Rhythmic hand computation is a widely used visible time
maintaining technique in carnatic music. However, a common requirement
amongst many existing students for carnatic vocal music is that they are
struggling to sing the rhythmically difficult songs while rendering rhythmic
hand count. This makes it educational practically difficult to cope with
beginners in carnatic vocal music, such as 1st and 2nd years bachelors degree
students. This paper proposes a rhythmic mind computation (RMC)
technique for time maintaining that initially builds hierarchical song learning
from a small effort of the entire students, while the remaining time is saved
sequentially and the song adapted constructively. The experimental results
indicate that the quality of the singing obtained by this method does not
degrade while eliminating the hand computational needs. This new RMC is
general, and could be applied to any singing task in carnatic vocal music
learning in which the song structured with any rhythmic pattern.
