As a child and teen, I loved making content, teaching, playing music.

That makes where I am now, the right place for me.

I started playing the guitar as I was 11. Before that, I played on table and other objects, all kinds of rhythms I could, trying to accompany songs I heard on the radio or occasionally on TV.

As a child and teen, I used to compile material from available books to make articles about Kingfishers, Sun, Plants etc.

As a teen, I used to make play money to play Teaching with my younger sister. She wasn’t a fan of that. But I liked teaching.

So, even before money or career or anything serious came into picture, I did the three things anyway because I loved to do it: making music, making content, teaching.

ARRahman came out with his Roja movie. I listened to composers like Johnson, Ravindran, Ilayaraja and older songs from films.

I wanted to compose. Making melodies. They were doing it. It is such fun. We can really create these sounds. That made sense. Sounds that said things which I couldn’t with words.

I would stand on the table in our hall. The hall had two speakers on the top corners. I imagined moving mixers, listening to the instruments in a mix, based on what I had seen on TV – how they use mixers and things.

Slowly I was able to make my own melodies. I was practising chords for songs I heard and liked and sang. Luckily there was a lot of time and space – not much adults around – no TV channels other than Doordarshan. NO internet to disrupt the learning by giving ready made solutions.

Over the years, connecting melody and chords while composing became easy. I did do multi instrument sequencing and sound engineering. But finally it was enough to do the chords and compose using the guitar. Any other work can be outsourced as long as the core detailed music work was done.

Internet. Youtube. Online Courses.

All off shoots and carriers for the main core interest and competencies.