Gayakagunadoshas

Gayaka Gunas & Gayaka Doshas.

​While talking about Indian Music, we have to know about the rules and regulations, methods to be followed by the musicians and also things to be avoided by them.

​The essential features which a musician should possess (Gayaka Gunas) are:

• ​Having a good, melodious, clean and sweet voice blending with sruti.
• ​Ability to sing the gamakas without any effort.
• ​Having control over the voice.
• ​Ability to sing in 2 ½ sthayis.
• ​Possessing sruti Gnana, Raga Gnana and Tala Gnana.
• ​Having an excellent Manodharma or Kalpana.
• ​Having a good memory power.
• ​Singing with responsibility.
• ​Having a stamina to sing for a long time.
• ​Ability to satisfy the audience by singing according to their will.
• ​Singing according to the Kutcheri dharma.
• ​Having a thorough knowledge of the Sangita Sastra.
• ​Singing with the knowledge of hard and soft tone.
• ​Singing with feeling.
• ​Singing without any disfiguration.
• ​Singing with a smiling face and sitting in comfortable position.
• ​Singing the composition after understanding the meaning.
• ​Having a high repertoire of compositions.
• ​Singing with a ringing voice.
• ​Singing without loss of Sruti.

​The essential points a musician should avoid (Gayaka Guna Doshas):

• ​Singing with mouth open as a Fortgate.
• ​Singing with shrill voice.
• ​Singing with a trembling voice.
• ​Singing with a doubtful voice with false rendering.
• ​Singing with absent mindedness.
• ​Singing with a hard breath.
• ​Shouting with full throated voice.
• ​Singing without blending with sruti.
• ​Putting the Tala wrongly or putting the tala in a scanty manner.
• ​Singing with wrong intonation.
• ​Singing with great difficulty.
• ​Singing with nasal sound.
• Singing with closed eyes.
• ​Closing the mouth and singing.
• ​Singing without any feeling.
• ​Singing without following the Kutcheri dharma.
• ​Rendering the Raga alapana in bits.
• ​Pronouncing the words wrongly.
• Singing with a harsh voice.