Swara trainer
Hear each swara, sing it back and get scored note by note, from Sa Re Ga up to alankars.
Hear a swara, then sing it back.
5 swaras. Each one plays on the harmonium, then you have 2.2 seconds to sing it.
- SaC
- ReD
- GaE
- ReD
- SaC
Green is within 20 cents, amber within 50. Any octave counts. Nothing is recorded and no sound leaves your device.
How a session works
Pick an exercise and press Start. The harmonium plays the first swara; when the words turn orange, sing it back on "aa" and hold it steady until the bar fills. The trainer listens to the steady part of your note, after you have found it, and marks it green, amber or red. Then the next swara plays. At the end you see how many were in tune and how far off you were on average.
The exercises
Beginners start with Sa Re Ga and Sa to Pa, which stay close to home. Intermediate covers the full saptak: aroha going up to taar Sa, avaroha coming down, and both in one breath of practice. Advanced exercises are alankars, the patterns every student of Indian music sings: pairs (Sa Re, Re Ga), threes (Sa Re Ga, Re Ga Ma) and skips (Sa Ga, Re Ma), which train you to land on a swara without sliding through the ones in between.
Tips
Choose a Sa you can sing softly. Any octave of a swara counts, so men and women can share a Sa. Swaras are placed at equal-tempered positions like a harmonium's, so treat a few cents either way as fine. For long, steady practice against a drone, use the tanpura with the pitch trainer.