How are you? I am fine, thank you. 

There is no aspect of music that i claim mastery over.  Not even close. 

A musical bumpkin then. 

My path to discovering Indian classical music is serpentine at best and made difficult by my own inability to do math or comprehend music theory. 

The music I fell in love with and still am smitten by is metal. The beauty of the sheer breadth and variety of genres that it can accommodate and encompass is colorful, shimmering and unremittingly loud. 

So, you can go from Metallica to Opeth to Babymetal to Death to Ghost to Devin Townsend to Venom Prison to Nightwish and still be under the umbrella of the devil’s music. 

Each band has opened doors to other genres and forms of music. Western and Indian classical happen to be 2 of them. 

The path to western classical is slightly easier, given direct influences and collaborations with metal bands.

To get to Indian classical, it would be an alchemy over a torturously long period of time of the below elements.

• Indian Ocean

• Kaushiki Chakraborty

• Shubha Mudgal

• Zakir Hussain

• A R Rahman / hindi film music in general

• Opeth

• Miles Davis

• Metallica

• Coke Studio