Mahanu🚧 Draft — not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional — someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.
Syllabus & status
The senior grade asks for a different relationship with each piece — held to quality all the way through, at length, without the last third sagging. So this board carries an extra column the junior one doesn't: endurance. Knowing a krithi and holding it clean at minute forty are two different skills, tracked separately.
Quality ladder: learning → secure → performance-ready Endurance ladder: fragment → full once → full & steady
Fill piece names from the official syllabus; the categories are the standard senior progression.
| # | Item | Type | Quality | Endurance | Recording | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Varnams (___) | varnam | at tempo, both kalais | |||
| 2 | Major krithis (___) | krithi | learning | fragment | the big ones — quality must hold to the last charanam | |
| 3 | Ragam–Tanam–Pallavi basics | RTP | the depth item — manodharma, not memorisation | |||
| 4 | Theory topics | theory | — | — | must be explained, not recited — write summaries | |
| 5 | Hard passages (named) | drill | each one isolated and drilled until boring |
Working rules
- One full-length run-through every week once repertoire allows — the only real test of endurance.
- Theory as a weekly study block with written summaries; if it can't be explained, it isn't known.
- Two full-length mock exams with an honest listener before the date.