Darshan Doshi is probably the most well known live drummer in the entire country. From playing live with the most celebrated music directors of the country, playing studio sessions with almost all leading music directors, having his own independent band Darshan Doshi Collective, collaborating with artists from all over the world, teaching in both online and offline scenarios, Darshan has done it all.

In this session, Darshan takes us through his formative years, when and how he decided to take up music as a career, his mentors. He also talks about being an instrumentalist, how to have a long sustainable career and what are the methods he has considered to have a long term impact on his professional career.

Darshan, along with his brother Umang Doshi, also has worn a hat of a Music composer. He has also taught various masterclass sessions on Livdemy, and in in-person workshops as well as created teaching material for students who want to learn at their own pace.

Join this session to learn from Darshan's rich, versatile experiences, having done so much in such a short span of time, and being the busiest drummer of the country for very good reasons.

To complete this session, please attend it during the live premiere of the session, or you may complete at a later time on course page (bit.ly/moodi_liv) This session is brought to you by Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay in collaboration with Livdemy, and on completion of the course, you will receive a certificate from both.

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Mahesh Raghvan is a genius. He was trained as a Western Classical pianist and a Carnatic vocalist, while he was growing up in Dubai. But when he tried his hand over GeoShred, the app where you can slide between notes, he came up with a unique usage of simulating Indian bends and expressions using GeoShred. Soon, he was regarded as the innovator of the music he produced using the app, be it the cover version of Game of Thrones title music or Carnatic 2.0 mashup of Shape of you.

One very important aspect of all these versions is the Production aspect. Mahesh does the entire production of all his world-famous originals or cover music. Equally adept with vocals and instrumental music, equally familiar with Classical or Contemporary music, he is supremely technical with the recording gears. His worldwide collaborations range over a wide variety of instruments from electronic to acoustic instruments. He mixes and masters his tracks as well.

In this session, Mahesh is going to dig deep into the production aspects. Producing for yourself or producing for others, or producing for your own collaboration. How to take charge of your own production, and have the complete creative freedom. Even if you are getting your tracks produced elsewhere, as an artist, you also need to be aware of the choices and options, so as to make the best out of a studio recording.

To complete this session, please attend it during the live premiere of the session, or you may complete at a later time on course page (bit.ly/moodi_liv) This session is brought to you by Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay in collaboration with Livdemy, and on completion of the course, you will receive a certificate from both.

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In this session, we are going to take a look at taking up Singing as a career choice. Pratibha Singh Baghel is going to take us through her journey of participating in a singing reality show contest, from a small town in India, to doing live shows with all the leading music directors. Having done live shows, playback for films, reality shows, India's first broadway show, Independent music, and being part of so many successful YouTube productions, Pratibha is going to talk from her own experience of tackling each of these areas, and how to leverage each to write your own success story.

The session includes preparing yourself for a worldwide audience, finding your strength and leveraging it, practice routine, keeping a healthy balance between studio sessions and live shows, making the best use of social media to your benefit, working on original music and having your own catalog on music streaming services, and much more.

To complete this session, please attend it during the live premiere of the session, or you may complete at a later time on course page (bit.ly/moodi_liv) This session is brought to you by Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay in collaboration with Livdemy, and on completion of the course, you will receive a certificate from both.

Note: To mark this as complete, all you have to do is, register for the session, watch, and submit a review.

When it comes to originality, Ram Sampath is a force of nature in the Indian music industry. From when he was very young, he not only has been making incredible tunes that millions love, he is also the composer behind some of the most memorable ad-jingles, independent music (remember Shaan's Tanha dil?), and ofcourse music like Bhaag DK Bose, or Jee Le Zara, that have become anthems.

In very early days, he had also co-created Colourblind, one of the seminal electronic rock albums of the country. Some of the most brilliant Coke Studio (India) renditions were by him as well. He was also the composer of Aamir Khan's Satyamev Jayate.

With such a range of music compositions, Ram Sampath comes across as a creative individual who has done it all. We are proud to have him talk about How to Take Music as a career from a music composition perspective. We dive deep into various aspects of composition, including composing with the lyrics-first approach or music-first approach. We discuss about what your compositions mean in terms of their earning potential. (you may have heard words like 'this song has put my kids into colleges' and so on). A piece of original music has many ways to manifest itself to earn for the creator. We talk about it all.

To complete this session, please attend it during the live premiere of the session, or you may complete at a later time on course page (bit.ly/moodi_liv) This session is brought to you by Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay in collaboration with Livdemy, and on completion of the course, you will receive a certificate from both.

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Shalmali Kholgade is the undisputed Diva of Indian music industry. While having created many of timeless hits for the film soundtrack, she also sets the stage on fire every time she appears on it. She is also uber-creative with her approach towards music videos. Her creative team, her co-performers on stage, are a force of nature when it comes to live performances.

In this session of How to Take Music as Profession, we deep dive into live music scene as one of the most important aspects of earning for a musician. There are live show opportunities both in India and abroad. In the current scenario, more than the studio opportunities, the live performances are lucrative opportunities to earn as a musician. Be it corporate gigs, family celebrations, or festivals or shows around the country or the world tours, there are plenty opportunities nowadays. As a performing artist, you need to leverage every given chance.

Shalmali, who ranks on the top of charts when it comes to a live performances, is going to discuss all about how to make your mark as a performing artist.

To complete this session, please attend it during the live premiere of the session, or you may complete at a later time on course page (bit.ly/moodi_liv). This session is brought to you by Mood Indigo, IIT Bombay in collaboration with Livdemy, and on completion of the course, you will receive a certificate from both.

Note: To mark this as complete, all you have to do is, register for the session, watch, and submit a review.