Shruthi Laya: Carnatic Aide

A collection of carnatic music lessons for beginners

Shruthi Laya is a Carnatic music related app, which serves as an aide in your classical carnatic music practice. It is for beginners learning Carnatic vocal or instruments such as violin, flute, veena and keyboard. The lessons can be played along in different tempo and shruti during practice and can be used as a reference reference otherwise.The app comes with a metronome as well that is designed based on traditional Taalam scheme. The app provides reference to basic information of over 900 raagas.

Divided into sections such as Varisai, Geetham, Swarajathi, Nottuswaram and Varnam, it has a comprehensive collection of basic carnatic music lessons suited for beginners which can be practiced in different speeds and scales.

★ A sruti petti/tambura with pitch from from note A(lower octave) to note B(upper octave)

★ Sarali, Jantai, Daatu, melstaayi, mandrastaayi varisai, alankaram and bruga saadaka varisai

★ 13 Geethams, 2 Swarajathis and 5 Nottuswarams with both swaram and sahityam

★ 24 Adi Tala Varnam with ability to play individual sections of varnam

★ Collection of popular songs (Currently 2 songs)

★ Vary tempo over a range of speeds

★ Optional Metronome for basic lessons

★ Optional Tanpura / Sruti box for basic lessons

★ Wide range of pitch to select from

★ Choice of 4 musical instruments viz., Piano, Accordion, Violin and Flute

★ Option to practice varisaigal in different melakartha raagams

★ Optional Visual display of the taalam cycle

★ Optional Karaoke style scrolling of swaram while playing

★ Basic information on over 900 raagas

★ Search for raagas either from the notes and (or) names

★ Metronome based on Tala scheme with indication of aksharam

★ Tala Metronome with optional selection of nadai

★ Variable bpm of metronome from 30bpm to 200bpm

ShruthiLaya is a creation of SiddhiSadhana, developers of

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