Translator

The Translator tool allows you to select one of the 31 raags from Sri Guru Granth Sahib and the scale (such as C#, D#, A#, and so on) and it shows Aaroh and Avroh of the raag in the selected scale.
This tool is useful for instrument tuning or for quick reference of notes in the raag.

Notes2Raag

Select three or more notes (for both Aaroh and Avroh) by clicking on the Sur buttons and turning them blue - the results window shows all the raags that make use of the selected notes in Aaroh and Avroh. As of now, the tool only tries to match Shuddh raags, support for mishrit raags will be added in future.
Both S and Ṡ are by default and always already selected and they cannot be changed.

Raag Quest

Focused listening is a key element in learning music. Being able to figure out notes and raag used in the bandish that you are listening to is an important skill that requires strong foundation and ear training.

With that goal in mind, Raag Quest is a quiz-based tool, where you can listen to an audio clip, and select your best answer! The tool shows the correct answer and keeps score of how many questions you have answered correctly in that session.

Initial release of the tool has about 110 audio clips and we will keep adding more clips and recordings for more coverage. Currently all the clips are for Shuddh Gurmat Sangeet Raags. Mishrit and other Hindustani Raags recordings will be added in future.

You can press the play or pause button on the audio player, select an answer and press Submit. If you answered it incorrectly, it will be highlighted in Red as shown below. The correct answer is highlighted in Green.

Once you submit an answer, the button changes to Next Question, pressing this takes you to the next question.

Ear Training

Focused listening is a key element in learning music. Being able to figure out the notes and raag used in the bandish that you are listening to is an important skill that requires strong foundation and ear training.

With that goal in mind, this tool is a quiz-based interface - where you can select your level -

• Beginner,
• Intermediate,
or
• Advanced

Next play the audio recording and select the correct answer. The audio recording clip and question test your ability to identify one or more surs/notes, taal, or vakrit notes/surs in the phrase being played.


You can press the play or pause button on the audio player, select an answer and press Submit. If you answered it incorrectly, it will be highlighted in Red as shown below. The correct answer is highlighted in Green.

Once you submit an answer, the button changes to Next Question, pressing this takes you to the next question.

Sur Abhyas

Riyaz with surs/notes in straight ascending or descending order is easy - but can you sing the surs accurately when they are not sequential - when they are in random order? This is what Sur Abhyas tool helps with!

First step is to provide input phrases of one or more notes by using one of two ways:

• 1. The first input option - on the top is where you can key in the notes - as you like - each line can have same or different number of notes, with spaces, etc. you can just type in one line at a time.

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• 2. Second option below -----OR------ as shown on the screen below, you can choose fixed number of surs in phrase, press the notes and select / change the Saptak as needed - and use this way to create a fixed length phrases of notes.
  
  For example, if you choose Notes / Phrase to be 2 (i.e. two notes per phrase), as soon as you press two surs, it will make a phrase of those two notes, and next key press with start a different phrase on the next line. You can change the Saptak as and when you would like.

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Once you have provided the input using one of the ways described above, you can ask the Sur Abhyas tool to generate up to 15 randomized phrases from your input! This way you can practice and test your ability to sing notes / phrases in any order!

Alankars

Alankars is a great tool to keep generating random sequences of phrases of notes you have provided. You can select notes and specify "number of notes in phrase" and keep pressing Generate button to generate different phrases using the notes you have selected.

Layakaari

For a given phrase, Layakaari tools allows you to mix and match notes from the given phrase, and present them in different possible vibhags (i.e. divisions).
For example, for phrase SRGM - which has four notes, can be split as 2-2, or 1-3, or 3-1, or 1-1-1-1, or 2-1-1, 1-1-2, and so on. And notes can be moved around to create different phrases. This tool does both. Rearranges the notes in all possible order, and then allows you to view and practice them in different possible vibhags.