Swarasthana is a fun-to-use teaching and knowledge aid for all Carnatic Music beginners and enthusiasts
Varisais and Alaṅkārams
Sing along and practice saraḷi, jhaṇṭa, dhāṭu varisais, and alaṅkārams not only in māyāmāḷavagauḷa,
but in any of the 72 mēlās as well as
more than twenty five pentatonic (auḍava), and eight hexatonic (śāḍava) ragas.
Adjust the sruthi, and tempo according to your comfort level.
Select the instrument from veena, guitar, flute, or
violin.
Improve upon your ability to sing swarasthanas in perfect pitch using the
Sruthi Suddham feature,
which features a realtime pitch tracker that
that tracks your pitch as you sing, and shows how you are doing.
Get better at identifying swaras using the
Swara Gnyanam
feature, which is in the form of a game wherein the app plays
a musical pattern containing 1 to 4 swaras, and you have to identify them.
Two modes - basic and the advanced. In
the basic mode, you select a specific mēḷa for the swaras. In the advanced
mode, the swaras are based upon a randomly chosen mēḷa.
Get better at identifying scales (ragas) using the
Scale Identification Game.
Swarasthana plays a melody in the scale of a randomly
chosen raga, and you need to identify the raga.
To adjust the level of difficulty, you can select the
kinds of ragas to be tested on: popular mēlās,
all mēlās, popular auḍava, śāḍava etc.