RIYAZ — TANPURA
A living tanpura inside jhallu.com. Choose your Sa, start the strings, and sing. Built for daily riyaz — the same seat as Jhallu’s own practice.
Pick a swara, hear it, then sing it into the mic – the needle shows how many cents flat or sharp you are. Green means your sur is true.
Tanpura strings are synthesised live in your browser (Karplus-Strong plucked string) — no audio files, nothing loads from a server. Headphones recommended.
Online tanpura for daily riyaz and raga practice
Riyaz puts a living tanpura inside the site. Choose your Sa – any of the 12 notes; JHALLU’s seat is D# – start the strings (Pa, Sa, Sa, Sa) and practise your raga scales, alaap and taan against a drone that never tires, with a session timer to hold your daily practice honest.
What Sa should I practise in?
The Sa your guru set for your voice. If you are starting out, sit with D# for a week of daily riyaz – it is the seat used across this site – and notice where your voice settles most naturally.
Does the tanpura play real strings?
The drone is synthesised with a plucked-string model (Karplus-Strong), so it breathes like strings instead of looping a flat sample.
Is it free?
Yes – no sign-up, no app. Open the page, pick your Sa and begin.
What is the Sur Trainer?
A microphone pitch trainer inside this page. Choose a swara of your raga, hear it, then sing – a live needle shows how many cents flat or sharp your voice is, with a score for how long you held the true sur. Pitch is measured on your phone; nothing is recorded or uploaded.
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