Posture
The mridangam is played resting it parallel to the floor. A right-handed mridangam artist plays the smaller membrane with his or her right hand and the larger membrane with the left hand. This can be described in words as follows: The mridangam rests upon the right foot and ankle, the right leg being slightly extended, while the left leg is bent and rests against the hull of the drum and against the torso of the artist. For a left-handed percussionist, the legs and hands are switched.
There is also a parallelounds of the mridangam. Students of this art are required to learn and practice both the fingering strokes taught as the training becomes more advanced, which are generally used as aesthetic embellishments while playing. These notes im, and chaapu. The combination of these finger strokes produces complex mathematical patterns.
Read more about this topic: Mridangam
Famous quotes containing the word posture:
“If one’s posture is upright, one has no need to fear a crooked shadow.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The Dada object reflected an ironic posture before the consecrated forms of art. The surrealist object differs significantly in this respect. It stands for a mysterious relationship with the outer world established by man’s sensibility in a way that involves concrete forms in projecting the artist’s inner model.”
—J.H. Matthews. “Object Lessons,” The Imagery of Surrealism, Syracuse University Press (1977)