Singer Lipsika Uday comes out with an idea 'music through informative video'

HYDERABAD: It is a competitive world. The music industry, more so. In a world like that, singer Lipsika Uday found a way to empower other musicians while improving herself. Her social media has lately been packing some incredibly informative and efficient videos about the basics of music, narrated of course in her voice. The videos showcase, notes, diagrams and theories of music, presented by her explaining the same. “The response has been incredible. I’ve been receiving messages left right and centre. Those who are already acquainted with me know my affinity towards keeping notes and they were the most excited to watch what I had to offer,” exclaims the singer with hit tracks such as One More Time from Temper to her credit.

See and learn
Meticulous and visually attractive, her videos on Facebook feature her notes written in colour coded inscriptions. And that wasn’t an accident. “I was always the one who kept detailed notes of everything. And my music notes are just the same,” she explains. The colours and the diagrams aren’t a fluke either. Lipsika says, “Presentation is important. I personally have a hard time reading chunky paragraphs. When it is presented in a table or a flow-chart or a tree, it makes it easier to follow. And it gets even easier when you can associate colours with it, because our brain makes these associations more easily. Visual learning teaches a lot more than drone lectures.” The 27-year-old so far has planned out a set of four lessons, where each lesson may have about three short videos each. Her videos not only apply to vocal music but also instrumentals. She shares that if one were to visit her place they would find a mountain of notes and books that she wrote for herself to learn from.

“Helps me too”
“Teaching is a disease I’ve had since I was a kid,” says the voice artist. Elaborating, she says, “Even when I was just a teenager, I would get kids from my colony and sit them down to teach something I might have learnt that day.” She has her own reasons for the same of course: “When you teach someone; when you repeat what you learn, it helps you remember and extract the best of whatever you have learnt too. These videos too are the same. When I explain them out loud it simplifies it for me as well. The idea is to make it easy and simple enough for a child to understand. And when you are able to simplify any concept to that level, it means you have the concept thoroughly understood yourself,” she elucidates.     

Always a student
A trained singer, not just in Carnatic but also in Hindustani and Western Classical, Lipsika has big plans for the videos. “I haven’t completely thought it through, but I intend to keep making the videos as long as I learn and as much as I do as well.” She also admits that she does get carried away sometimes. “Once I was going to start a small tutorial about talams and as I learnt that there are 35 talams, I started off looking them up. As I went on the internet I found that there were more than 35, in fact that there were hundreds. I went on reading up for hours before coming back to reality. Music is a never-ending ocean and learning about it also is. And I intend to keep going as long as I can,” says Lipsika passionately.   

New turfs
Come 21 June, she will be heard on the radio as well! “I’ve always loved talking. But I never thought I was spontaneous enough to be an RJ. But I am just a consulting RJ for now, we’ll see how far that goes now,”she says signing off.

— Srividya Palaparthi
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