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About this Course:

 

This course will improve the playback singing skills in details, needed to understand, analyse, and listen informedly. This course covers playback singing from the absolute basics to some more advanced concepts and, as such, is the perfect course for aspiring and more experienced singers alike.

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About Poornima AKA Sushama Shreshtha :

 

She sang the hit "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" when she was just nine. . In spite of the prevailing custom of women playback singers singing for children, Shankar Jaikishan took upon him the challenge of taking an unknown child to sing "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" for the film Andaz. Sushama recorded her first song on 07th November 1969 with Mohammed 
Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur. Rafi was very impressed by her singing. 
Sushma did a children's album called Bal Geet, which had the legendary Shrinivas Khale composing the songs 
and Shanta Shelke penning them. She sang four songs in it. The album proved as huge hit and gave immense exposure to Poornima who surprised everybody by singing Marathi songs with ease.  Some of her most popular songs as Sushama Shreshtha are Tera Mujhse hai peel ka naata koi, Yaadon ki Barasat, Kya hue tera waada, Thande thane paani se nahana chahiye, Teri hai Ameen tera aasmaan. She has sung many super hit songs in her childhood: "Tera Mujhse Hai Nata Koi", "Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" are a few. Poornima is the oldest singer in terms of experience in the industry who can boast of having worked with  R.D. Burman, S.D. Burman, Naushad, Madan Mohan, C. Ramchandra,  
Salil Chaudhary, Kalyanji-Anandji, Laxmikant-Pyarelal & Ravindra Jain.  Her last song as Sushma Shreshtha was in N.Chandra's Ankush: "Itni Shakti Humein Dena Data" 
Jingles took her attention where the professionalism made her settle to a steady work schedule. 
In the 1990s, Tips, the music company approached her with an offer. Wanting to make a clean departure from the child prodigy image, they suggested a change of name and image. Sushma took the name Poornima. Her song "Barsaat Mein Jab Aayega Saawan Ka Maheena" from Maa was a hit. Few things changed till David Dhawan's Bol Radha Bol. "Tu Tu Tu Tu Tara" was nothing short of an anthem and the remaining songs, which were a success also, gave Poornima the opportunity to savour success and adulation that had eluded for long. She continued her association with Dhawan, she went on to sing for all his No. 1 series including Haseena Maan Jayegi and Biwi No.1. She has sung for many leading music directors including Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Ravindra Jain, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit, Raamlaxman, Nadeem-Shravan, Viju Shah, Anand Raj Anand, Nikhil-Vinay, Dilip Sen -Sameer Sen, Sukhwinder Singh and Aadesh Shrivastava. 
She has sung for many actresses like Juhi Chawla, Madhuri Dixit, Manisha Koirala, Sushmita Sen, Shilpa 
Shirodkar, Karishma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Kajol, Rani Mukherji, Madhu, Tabu and Sridevi. She has also sung popular numbers like "Channe Ke Khet Main" from Anjaam, "Batti Na Bujha" from Gopi Kishan(both 1994), "Shaam Hain Dhuan Dhuan" from Diljale (1996), "Mr Lova Lova" from Ishq (1999) and in a series of David Dhawan films like such as Coolie No. 1 (1995), Judwaa (1997), Hero No. 1 (1997) and Biwi No.1 (1999) amongst others. 

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SYLLABUS: 

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•    Session 01 : Art of listening & Analysing the songs.

 

•    Session 02:  Riyaz techniques for even non trained singers.

 

•    Session 03 : Improving Pronunciations. (Hindi & Urdu)

 

•    Session 04 : Tonal qualities (Vibrato, tremolo, projection, dynamics) & Mic techniques, tips & techniques for impressive performance. 

 

•    Session 05 : Working with composers, scanning & improvising techniques.

 

•    Session 06 : Singing

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Duration:

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6 Days (Each session of 1.5 to 2 hrs)