Former techie now teaches music over the net
A touch of imagery and an interactive relationship is music to Suchethan Rangaswamy’s ears. The 31-year-old gave up a promising career in the software industry to follow his heart – teaching music. Of late though, Rangaswamy, a trained Carnatic musician, has turned to Skype to reach his students in the US, UK and Israel. He even imparts veena lessons through the online portal.
“They say music has no boundaries and technology made the world one large global village. I just put the two of them together,” Rangaswamy said. “My parents wanted their sons to be either doctors or engineers. My elder brother is a doctor and a very accomplished mrudanga player. Although academics was priority, we were also musically inclined and so I was trained in Carnatic classical music from the age of four.”
Rangaswamy completed an engineering degree from M S Ramaiah College and worked in a software company for three years. But he found working at a computer unappealing. Rangaswamy was well tutored in music, having learnt the art from the likes of R K Srikantan and P Unni Krishna. His veena lessons were imparted by Suma Sudhindra.
“My parents were very supportive. I began performing and teaching and things took off smoothly,” he says. But when one of his students moved away to the US to study further three years ago, Rangaswamy entered the world of online teaching.
“He wanted to continue learning music and Skype seemed the perfect solution. He could see me perform to pick up the nuances of the tala,” he says. Rangaswamy currently teaches 12 students in the US, UK and Israel. “Not all of them are Indians. Teaching over the net is easy. Most of the students have already learnt the basics so building over that is not difficult.”
The real challenge Rangaswamy faced was teaching an eight-year-old Israeli boy Carnatic compositions on the veena for him to replicate on the guitar. “I met Ned on a visit to Israel three years ago. He had come to watch me perform. He is an expat living in Israel with his family and was a full-time musician even at that young age. He wanted to learn Carnatic music too. Sitting in Bangalore, I would play the tunes on my veena and he would watch me through Skype and replicate it on the guitar. It was interesting and uplifting.”
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