‘MelaNota’: The dawn of modern era for guitar and bass notes
A webinar with the music veterans was held recently to introduce the newly created ‘MelaNota’ notations to music lovers.
Some of the veteran musicians such as Mahinda Bandara, Rookantha Goonathileka, Rukshan Perera, Antony Surendra, Buddika Perera, Kamal Perera of Gypsies, Lelum Rathnayeka, Nalaka Sajee, Jude Peiries, Primal Liyanage, Shane Vas, Devshan Perera, Pubudu Perera, Manaram Gunetileke, Sankalpa de Mel and Sachith Peiries participated in this webinar.
‘MelaNota’ is a notation system invented by Melantha Perera of ex-Mirage fame that used to teach the students at his music school ‘Riversheen’. This is a complete system which can be written on a piece of paper on a single line. Field test proves 98% to play a melody within five minutes.
‘I have to thank all, who participated in the webinar and they were astonished to see the success of the teaching method. Not only they recommend the system, all the veterans endorsed this newly created notifications as the best educating method of modern music teaching’ said the creator Melantha Perera.
‘MelaNota doesn’t need teaching skills, with a few guidelines, will not take even a minute to understand and play music even you do not have any music background or be able to read the music. ‘MelaNota’ helps easily to grab the system’ he added.
Musicians all over the world use various kinds of methods, names and symbols in different contexts representing musical notes. Various methods have been practicing and experimenting for the past centuries. The well known and popular written methods that presented are, staff notation to indicate the musical notes written on lines and tablature format especially for guitar.
‘This is being widely used in most genres of popular music, including jazz, pop, and rock corresponding with symbols are typically composed of existing systems’ said Melantah Perera, the veteran musician and the founder of popular Music School ‘Riversheen’.
Music notations methods are used to train the little fingers of the present day children grading them as a kid Grade I to higher University levels.
‘MelaNota’ system is Easy to learn and adapt where, numeric values over powers the existing methods of the guitar family with a system that never existed.
‘It could be your hobby to listen or play music to relax after a school or a hard day’s work at office. MelaNota technique will help you to spend the least amount of time to learn and play the instrument specially the guitar or bass. This system is easy to understand because it’s not complicated. It’s a very simple and novel technique which he has takeout sharps, flats, octaves and fingering which is not a problem in writing on MelaNota’ Melantha gave a brief description about the ‘MelaNota’ the invention to the guitar world.
