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\"Image\"<\/a><\/strong>Photo Credit : Aamena Khan<\/em><\/p>\n

Kartikeya Srivastava<\/strong> might come across as just another guy next door who\u2019s back from his vacations for a while but there\u2019s more than what meets the eye.70-467<\/a>
\nBorn and raised in Lucknow, this prolific drummer is a student at the Berklee College of Music<\/strong> and is currently taking Contemporary Music Theory, private Drum a<\/a> Canada goose jackets and coats<\/a>and Ear Training session for students at Global Music Institute<\/strong>. Anisha Saigal<\/strong>, the resident blogger caught him over for a tete-a-tete.<\/p>\n

AS<\/strong>– Tell us about your Berklee stint. What semester level are you enrolled in?
\nKS<\/strong>– I\u2019m a fifth semester student, majoring in performance. This is the first time I\u2019ve taken a break cause usually people do two semesters and take a semester off but this is the first time I\u2019m taking an off . I\u2019ve been working with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute at Berklee. That is sort of an honours programme in itself but with a social aim in mind. I\u2019ve been doing that for two semesters and its been a nice experience. I got to meet some of my favourite musicians while working there http:\/\/www.aislinncaron.ca . I just needed a break for a while, so I\u2019m here.<\/p>\n

AS<\/strong>– What did you choose this particular major?
\nKS<\/strong>– I like to play more than anything else. To put it this way, there are a lot of other majors at Berklee but having moved halfway around the world I wouldn\u2019t want to do something that I don\u2019t want to do. More people come in and do stuff like Music Business which is great but you could do something like that without going to Berklee. If you\u2019re at Berklee, you need to make use of it. Berklee\u2019s good at other things as well but I was always into playing and never into electronics, synthesis or production.<\/p>\n

AS<\/strong>– When did this affair with the sticks and kits begin? Why did you pick up drums as principle instrument?
\nKS<\/strong>– I\u2019ve been playing for a while now. My parents tell me when I was four; I kept circling around the drummer, at a gig. I was fascinated by the bass drum pedal at the gig. That\u2019s when I began asking my parents more about it. I finally got the kit when I was eight. I was too young to remember it consciously but it was something that attracted me.<\/p>\n

AS<\/strong>– How did you hear about GMI and what was the main aim behind doing this teaching stint here?
\nKS<\/strong>– I know Tarun from Berklee and we have been in touch. He started GMI last year, so this time when I decided to come back to India, I decided to stay back in Delhi rather than going home in Lucknow. I wanted something to do basically and I have a couple of projects in Delhi. It was essentially to make more contacts.<\/p>\n

AS<\/strong>– How is this stint with GMI helping you focus on your growth as a musician and the career?
\nKS<\/strong>– The students that I am teaching here are at completely different levels. I\u2019ve to be really conscious about what I tell them. There are times when things that I am doing come naturally to me. I am not aware of them anymore because I\u2019ve been doing them for so long. I find myself going back to the basics where it\u2019s a nice way to concentrate on what one has done before.
\nA lot of students have different ways of approaching things differently.<\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s interesting to see a certain path that a student takes to get to the same place rather than what the other student takes. It\u2019s just nice to share stuff where I\u2019m teaching but it\u2019s a hang essentially (chuckles). Looking back, obviously, if I had someone to guide me, it would\u2019ve helped me a lot. It\u2019s important to introduce different concepts as soon as possible because they\u2019re going to be your musical foundation.<\/p>\n

AS<\/strong>– Looking back, if you had an opportunity to attend lessons in India with an institute like GMI, would you have benefitted out of it? Can you picture yourself as a student here?
\nKS<\/strong>– Yes, I would have really benefitted if I had a similar sort of training Learning music\u2019s a lot like learning a language. So, for eight years what I did was rote learning. I was just playing but didn\u2019t know what was happening. It\u2019s like saying a sentence in French. You know what the sentence means but unless you know the formation and structure you cannot say you know French. This is where GMI differs from other music schools.<\/p>\n

AS<\/strong>– Has GMI helped you with networking around the city with musicians?
\nKS<\/strong>– It has a lot, actually. I am looking to start my own project which is a trio. Both other musicians are teachers at GMI as well (Jayant Manchanda and Rohit Gupta). I have another trio as well named \u2018Skip Bop Trip\u2019 with Pranav Pahwa (who\u2019s also a teacher here) and Sahil Warsi. People like these I\u2019m playing with also have more contacts so I\u2019m getting connected to a lot more people in Delhi. I might get to play with Adi + Suhail as well for their next gig.<\/p>\n

AS<\/strong>– What are your plans when you return to Berklee this Fall?
\nKS<\/strong>– I just want to concentrate on my studies at Berklee .I also have a trio there with this guitarist from Thailand called Julphan and we just recorded an album, so that\u2019s going to come out. We\u2019ll probably do a tour of East Coast, once that happens. I\u2019m also looking at Grad Schools for my masters ideally looking around New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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