Glenn Thomas Alex Launches Cover of ‘Maa Tujhe Salaam’ on YouTube for I-Day

Glenn Thomas Alex Launches Cover of ‘Maa Tujhe Salaam’ on YouTube for I-Day

Glenn Thomas Alex aka ‘GTA (Glenn Thomas Alex) Productions Launches Cover of ‘Vande Mataram- Maa Tujhe Salaam’ (A.R.Rahman) on YouTube for 70th Independence Day. “We are currently at 450+ subscribers and we need to reach 10,000 subscribers to be eligible for other facilities provided by Youtube. My humble request to the readers of Mangalorean.com to subscribe to us, since it would help us a lot to reach greater heights. Looking forward to your support and encouragement in our future music/songs covers on YouTube-Thank you all”- Glenn Thomas Alex

Mangaluru: Right in time to pay tribute to India’s 71st Independence Day on 15 August, local lad Glenn Thomas Alex, originally from Kottayam-Kerala, currently studying in 3rd Year Computer Science Engineering in NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte, Karkala; and residing at Attavar-Mangaluru, along with his team has brought out a cover featuring “Vande Mataram- Maa Tujhe Salaam” by A R Rahman- and has already received 2000 views in just one day!

Glenn Thomas

Glenn Thomas Alex owns the channel GTA Productions (GTA is short for Glenn Thomas Alex) on YouTube- a channel which mainly focuses on Flute – Tabla – Keyboard covers of famous songs. While Glenn plays the Keyboard, other members of the group namely- Adithya V Rao is the flutist, studying in 4th Year Civil Engineering in NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte, Karkala, residing in Kodialbail-Mangaluru; Karthik Kamath from Udupi, is the Tabla Player, who completed engineering from NMAM IT this year from E&C Dept and right now undergoing training in Infosys, Mysore.

Adithya Rao (Flutist)

Vocalists

Karthik Kamath Tabla Player

Added to their credit is their latest Flute and Keyboard cover of AR Rahman’s famous rendition of Vande Mataram- Maa Tujhe Salaam on YouTube, which comprises of Glenn’s vocalist friends from his College, which was done in connection with the 70th Independence Day of India. The vocalists are: Akshatha Bhat (2nd Year Computer Science Engg, NMAMIT); Hitha Rai (3rd Year Electronics and Communication Engg, NMAMIT); Kruthi Rao (2nd Year Electrical and Electronics Engg, NMAMIT); and Pooja Muraleedharan (2nd Year Computer Science Engg, NMAMIT) Link: https://youtu.be/ct8AXKUANmI

Prithvi Monteiro (Saxophone)

GTA Productions FIRST Flute – Keyboard cover was a mash-up of Evergreen Hindi Songs (comprising of the songs: Choti Si Aasha, Roja Jaaneman, Kabira, Har Ghadi Badal, Pehla Nasha, Tum Paas Aaye and My Heart Will Go on from Titanic), which received a good response from the video gaining almost 1000 views as well as a live performance of the same during NMAM IT College Fest back in October 2016. This was the start of our venture. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/m0n19wbcjtk

Later Glenn collaborated with one of his vocalist friends, Ms Viditha Vishwas (currently studying 4th-year Mechanical Engineering in our same college) with whom he performed a Vocal cover of Samjhawan Unplugged Version (from the movie Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania) and that video too gained more than 1200 views on YouTube. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/mCEG1VA0vFY

The third project was the performance on a Flute – Keyboard Cover of “You Raised Me Up” (original by Josh Groban) which was their first music video on YouTube. (gained about 500+ views). Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/_IUYBkvBCtk

Glenn says that their Fourth video was their first music video hit, where he performed on a Flute – Keyboard cover of “Kabira” from the movie “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani”. Which was our first music video hit and gained more than 1500 views. Link: https://youtu.be/kyOGAvSagDw

From then onwards, GTA and gang started collaborating with the Tabla Player Karthik and they performed the biggest hit of their channel till date. A Flute Tabla Keyboard medley of “Rockabye – Shape of You – Cheap Thrills”. This video became an instant hit and has received more than 2100 views as of now. Link: https://youtu.be/iRzdl9Spb6g

For the Sixth video, Glenn collaborated with his friend Prithvi Monteiro to perform a Saxophone – Keyboard cover of the old soulful English Song “When You Say Nothing At All” (original by Ronan Keating). Link: https://youtu.be/69cUtAwrU7Y.

The seventh video was a Flute Tabla Keyboard medley of the songs Hosanna (Tamil), Love Me Like You Do and See You Again, which gained about 1000 views too. Link: https://youtu.be/f6yPzbdo3yg

Speaking to Team Mangalorean, GTA aka Glenn Thomas Alex said, “These are the eight main videos of our channel related to our Flute Keyboard covers. The remaining video are the choir performances of my church (Mar Thoma Syrian Church, Falnir-Mangaluru) where I am currently the choir master of the church choir. And the other videos are few instrumentals I just made.”. When asked how he puts all these compositions/covers together, he replied, ” The process of making videos is like this. I listen to songs and try figuring out which songs would go well together (for medleys) or otherwise would sound beautiful as Flute Keyboard Cover.”

“Later I run this by the flutist. Once we are in agreement, I make the track on the church keyboard (since I don’t have a professional keyboard of my own :)- but trying to buy one soon). Later I coordinate with the tabla player and record the audio of the tabla using my camera (since recording in studios is a bit expensive and we don’t earn from our videos). Then I mix the tabla beats with my keyboard track and use the track to record the lead flute using my camera. Once I’m done mastering the audio on my laptop at home, we go to some good scenic location where I shoot the video of the flutist and tabla player. Since our tabla player is based in Mysore, I have to travel to Mysore and get his video recorded separately which is why all three of us are never in the same frame together. Once I have recorded all videos, I process and edit the video at home and mix it with the audio and upload it to Youtube” added Glenn.

And finally, a humble request from Glenn Thomas Alex is that “We are currently at 450+ subscribers and we need to reach 10,000 subscribers to be eligible for other facilities provided by Youtube. My humble request to the readers of Mangalorean.com to subscribe to us, since it would help us a lot to reach greater heights. Looking forward to your support and encouragement in our future music/songs covers on YouTube-Thank you all”.