You can find here the carnatic notes of songs for playing in violin, keyboard, flute etc. Please che The notations are in carnatic ( sa ri ga ma ) format. ie.
We recommend using this format as it is easier to memorise the notes. However if you inisist using western notations, don't worry, it is easy to convert. Here is a brief theory :
the twelve notes in an octave are represented by :
carnatic : s r1 r2 g2 g3 m1 m2 p d1 d2 n2 n3
____________g1 r3_____________ n1 d3__
western : C C♯ D D♯ E F F♯ G G♯ A A♯ B
However they do
n't have the same meaning. western notes represent absolute frequencies, whereas carnatic notes represent the intervals in a scale.i.e. the note 'C' is always 523.25 Hz, but can you say the frequency of 'sa' (shadjam) ? the fact is that we can assign 'sa', any convenient frequency of our choice. we may fix 'sa' at 440 Hz(A) or 523.25 Hz(C) or any other random frequency. However , in order to get a reference frequency, usually 'sa' is assigned the frequency of anyone of the twelve western notes, as they are readily available in the universally available 'keyboards'. in short, we may fix 'sa' at any key(black or white, sharp or flat) in a piano or keyboard & the next eleven consecutive keys forms the rest eleven notes in an octave. In an equal temparament music system, let f0 denote the root frequency. then the rest eleven frequencies (f1 to f11) are derived using the equation :
fn = 2^{n/12}*f0 , where n is between 1 to 11. An interesting thing to note here is that when n=12, fn= twice f0. a note in an upper octave is twice the frequency of the same note in the lower octave.
