Sadhakam: Carnatic Swara Gnanam Practice
With Sādhakam, you'll exercise all swarasthanams thoroughly. These interactive exercises train you to hear and identify swarasthanas gradually, with increasing complexity. The exercises are crafted with pure and precise carnatic swara sthanams.
Each exercise will play a swaram or sequence to you. You shall hear and identify the correct swarasthanam among the choices presented. Once you answer, the app will tell you whether you are right or wrong, and what the correct answer is. As you practice more and more, you'll start recognizing swarams automatically. This way you can improve your swara gnanam whether you are a beginner student or an experienced musician or just a fan of carnatic music.
Mastering the 16 basic swarasthanas is fundamental for both vocalists and instrumentalists. It is even a prerequisite for manodharma sangeetham and to attain perfection in gamakam. Sādhakam helps you to achieve that in two ways:
1. It provides right set of exercises drilling different swarasthanas and combinations
2. It is interactive and lets you practice independently
The exercises are usually short. Each exercise can be done in a few minutes. So, you can practice anywhere, any time, whenever you have a few minutes to spare. You can repeat any exercise any number of times, and proceed to the next one when you feel confident. You can also explore the exercises and start working on the one that interests you at the moment depending on your mood or skill level. The app keeps track of your score and ratings.
The app plays swarams based on shruti/kattai/mane of your choice. We suggest you to sing along with the app. Ability to sing any swarasthana at will is also a fundamental skill. This app makes it easy to practice and learn that skill.
Each exercise introduces a new concept or swaram, or revises previous concepts. If you get low score in an exercise, it means you are just beginning to learn the underlying swaram/concept. Keep observing the correct answers shown in the app and redo the exercise. You will see improvements in your score as your brain internalizes the swaram and pattern. When you see consistent high scores in a particular exercise, you would have sufficiently mastered the lesson that exercise was trying to teach you.
Each swaram is worked out in several exercises in different contexts: in arohanam, avarohanam, along with a neighbouring swaram or a distant swaram, using Sa as reference, using Pa as reference, etc. As you practice more exercises, the characteristics of the swarasthanams are etched deeply in your mind. The app also shows your progress on each swarasthana based on all the exercises you've practiced. You can use this to improve upon specific swarasthanams. For instance, you may recognize Suddha Rishabam (Ri1) in arohanam when coming from Shadjam (Sa). But you may confuse it with Chatusruti Rishabam (Ri2) when in avarohanam or while descending from a distance swaram like Thara Sthayi Sa. Or, you may normally recognize a swarasthanam in madhya sthayi, but you miss it when it comes to mandra sthayi or thara sthayi. By practicing exercises where you have difficulty in recognizing a particular swarasthana, you improve your gyānam of that swaram, which reflects as the skill level for that specific swarasthanam in the app.
NOTE
* First 2 levels with 7 exercises are free. This covers variations of Ri Ga from Sa, and Dha Ni higher Sa from Pa.
* If you find the app is helping you to improve, you can unlock all the exercises with a subscription or a one time purchase.
* There are no ads even in the free version.
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Reviews (29)
The app is really confusing If you're used to hindustani classical versus carnatic. Basically, ga 2 is ga komal and dha 1 is dha shud. So even though you know the note and recognize it, it's confusing to figure out the option. I just wish they wouldn't use two options for the same note. I think it would be helpful if there could be kind of a setting, where they could underline the komal swar. And have only one option for each note.
Terrible customer service. While I want to encourage their efforts and purchased two apps from them, their lack of efforts and eagerness to blame Google and customer for problem with their updates is something I would not vouch for. As a musician I like what they are doingn; as a tech engineer I don't like being cheated and for them to finger point rather than solve issues.
As I said before this a wonderful n very useful app ever. I would like to ask u something. Is it possible to play a note repeatedly until I understand that particular note properly before taking a test excercises. For example I would like to play only R3 note. If it is possible theo it would be great. Thank You.
Awesome. Just a suggestion. Despite the reason given for using a flat tone, you can use a neutral voice to sing the notes. Sounds odd having to figure out beeps!
Marvelous!! Surely this app will help to improve my ability and also eliminate my confusions related to the classical music. Friends, this is a useful app and try it for your voice training.
It will be very useful and helpful if you can able to introduce different instruments sounds. But really, nice work.
Excellent app to train swaras... Making good progress. Does what it claims, small size, bug free.. must have for Carnatic music learners.. good job!
***Thanks for the response to resolve this I purchased the app by paying Rs 350, but the additional levels are still disabled. Pl help. I did report the problem yesterday to the support email but havent received any response.
It's helping to identify next note, intervals etc. Every musician without tutor we can easily get musicology.
I am learning carnatic violin. It is not possible to learn violin unless we perfect in swara sthanas. For which I am using this app.Giving wonderful results. I am sure you will get wonderful experience.
Great App! Helpful to understand the swara differences. Will that possoble to roll out swaras for other instruments like flute, veena, violin etc., Vocal type also helpful for those who needed.
Wonderful app. But if option for change of instrument also provided, would be even more fine or even vocal akara sadhana would be helpful
Sadly it doesn't open in MI's Poco phone. When i installed thus app with all excitement and opened it , it willnot open and says app crashed :(
best app forever.Very useful for carnatic beginners .I request all to buy all levels to support the developers who have worked hard to create an incredible app
Beautiful app for beginners but it doesn't work with headphones of Samsung 10+. Works without headphones.
What a wonderfull app Hatsoff to the developers Such a usefull app you developed Really this app will be very usefull for Carnatic music students Thankyou soo much for developing this app Many exercises of all 12 sruthis ear training available this will enable students to identify the swaras easily
Simple and to the point. Would have been better with different tonalities to choose from. It has only one sound.
This app is awesome for ear tuning for carnatic music students. Would highly recommend it.
Good app for music learners... But the app should also provide the premium lessons.... That would be better....
It is quite useful to learn music from beginners to professionals for practice
Looks fine. As many suggested, adding different instrument sounds would be great
Excellent app. Thanks for building this app. Very useful for karnatic music learners.
Amazing and very helpful app, can you please also release for iOS soon!
Great app. May provide different sound for notes..say sound of piano
This is an amazing app for ear training! Good job developers! 💐
Very good When i had a problem responded immediately and helped to correct it. Super good
It is fantastic to register Swara stanzas a very great app for aspiring musicians
Good for pratice of ears. Thank you for this app.
Wonderfully curated app for Carnatic musicians🙂 kudos to the team for creating such an useful app! One small feature request - can the swaras incorrectly identified be played again on completion of a set? There is an option to repeat the entire set. But if there is also an option to do the ones that we got wrong, it would help nail those down better. Just my 2 cents. Thanks!