Dear Pāṭṭu Vādyār,
I love to memorise songs. Nowadays I am finding it a little hard to memorise quickly. Do you have any suggestions?
A technique suggested by Tanjore Sri S Kalyanaraman is to write the song you wish to memorise, in a column format. I will demonstrate using a charanam from Jagadānanda-Kāraka:
pāda
vijita
mauni
śāpa
sava
paripāla
varamantra
grahaṇa
lōla
parama
śānta
citta
janakajā(a)dhipa
sarōjabhava
varada
akhila
(jagadānanda-kāraka)
The added benefit of this technique is that one gets to pay attention to the word breakup.
