Carnatic Guitar

Evelyn Glennie shows how .

... and let the experience really open your eyes. Here is some background info.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8044406.stm

Here is a song by my friend Mosi Balan. http://mosibalan.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-post.html Balan is a poet, singer and songwriter. He wrote this children's song, sang it himself and e-mailed me a recording. Using Garageband and a MK-4902 midi controller, I quickly added accompaniment tracks in about half an hour. Even though we reworked this many times after this, this first version won because his son picked this over others. Makes sense, since it is a children's song. What I like about this, is the ease with which we could collaborate remotely. We seldom completed a recording when working together in person.

My guitar is a customized version of Ibanez RG7321 with graphtech ghost pickup system ( thanks to my friend Thiagu for the pickups ). Here is a video demo of ghost pickup system.

This might make a good Carnatic instrument too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd4jvtAr8JM

I'm sure there is somebody playing Indian classical music using these. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCM-WBqDZ-Q&feature=related