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The Maestro and the guitar
Music Maestro Ilayaraaja gave a new life to the coolest string instrument, the Guitar...Be it the acoustic or the electric, he set standards which has inspired and motivated millions of Guitar lovers like me..For example, in the song MUTHTHADUTHE MUTHTHADUTHE from film Nallavanukku Nallavan, the entire song from the start to the end has the electric guitar strumps in the Background non-stop!!! God knows how that guitarist played continuously!! In another classic example from film Geetha(Kannada), the song "Santhoshakke hadu" has the similar guitar magic....Coming to the incredible example, in the song Kaatril enthan geetham from Johnny, we hear a string instrument right from the beginning to the end...Though i am not sure which string instument it is, it is very difficult to play this piece on the Guitar as it involves holding 4 strings at a time..It is a well known fact that this guitar piece has been copied by a very famous Western music group. So please listen to Kaatril enthan geetham from Johnny and concentrate on the string instrument piece that comes right from the beginning of the song...Another snappy number is NEETHANE ENTHAN PON VASANTHAM from Ninaivellam Nithya...The Acoustic guitar strumps in the background throughout the song..In fact the guitar strumps at a totally irrelevant Shruti(Pitch) but it adds magic to SPB's voice..Only the genius Raaja can imagine so intensely...listen to this song and concentrate on the guitar In the song SAALAIYORAM SOLAI ONDRU from the musical film PAYANANGAL MUDIVATHILLAI, the song starts with the very fast electric guitar piece that is so difficult to play...Of course ILAYANILA POZHIGIRATHU is the song that is the most celebrated song by Raaja and SPB fans across the world...The acoustic guitar interludes in this song would give us those goose pimples!!
long live Isaignani!!
This was written by Krishnan a guitarist..!

The impeccable!

I'm not that knowledgeable!
I might be the last amongst his Fans!
I might not be technically strong about music!
But still .. i cant resist !
From talking about this great legend.. may be there are hundreds of blogs already, nevertheless I just want to share and speak about my experiences and nuances of raaja's music..
So here I go...!
create a blog.. and dedicate it for this Legend of all times.. legend of all legends..
firstly to answer the question Why ?? right from my 8-9 standard in school I actively started hearing to his music.. and got lost in his music.. one music which soothed in my bad times.. motivated me when I was.. dull and enthu'ed me .. always.. so its just a tribute to him and his .. music which was one of good friend who never fought with me.. and always.. understanding.. me.. and been with me.. all the times.. in good bad.. and sober times.. the rejuvenation which I went thru' with "How to name it ??" and "nothing but wind" in my childhood and influence made by "Thiruvasagam" and "Ramana mallai" apart from all the film songs is the compelling reason.. for me to key-in about him.
But still, in this I will be dissecting and bisecting .. his music.. to learn more .. and relish more of his music.. off course.. this will make us listen to his music more..! off course.. with lot of emotional real life stories attached to it!