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Where can I learn to sing viruttam online with a live teacher?
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You can study viruttam singing online with KalaSudha, live and one-to-one with a vetted teacher. A viruttam is Tamil devotional verse sung to a melody improvised in one or more ragas, or melodic frameworks, with no tala, or beat cycle. The poem is fixed, and you make the music on the spot.
It usually comes just before a song such as a kriti. You start with the poem: one stanza, such as a Tevaram hymn, learnt line by line with a translation. Our online academy starts you at Foundation, with workshops and summer camps where enough learners sign up.