Write a bandish in sargam and hear it — over a real tabla theka, with the taal's own sam and khali, in any scale, at any tempo. Free, and it stays free. Your edits stay in your browser; use Save to keep a copy, or send it to us to add to the Gurmat Sangeet Sagar collection.
The grid edits the swaras and lyrics. Everything else about the piece — its title and raag, the taal, where a section starts, the meend arcs — lives here, and you can paste a whole composition in.
One line per matra: the matra number, the swaras, then | and the syllables.
The number of swaras in a cell is its subdivision — two swaras means two half-matras.
That is exactly how the book works.
S r R g G m M P d D n N | swaras; lowercase is komal, M is teevra madhyam |
S' S_ | taar saptak, mandra saptak |
- | hold — the previous note goes on sounding |
. .i | rest; rest for the voice with the instrument playing on |
[n]D | kan: touch Ni, then sound Dha |
G* | gamak |
G R , G | two groups of equal length — so a quarter, a quarter, then a half |
| ਚੁ ਕਾ | one syllable per swara; - continues the last one, ~ means none |
meend: 0.0.6.0 -> 0.0.8.2 | an arc over a run of notes, played as one gesture |
section: antara entry=9 | a new section; entry if it does not begin on sam |
Play a note to fill the asthai from its first matra, or click a cell below first to fill from there — each note fills the outlined cell and the outline steps to the next, so you can lay down a line without typing. Keys are the real harmonium's: naturals white, sharps black, spanning lower Ma to higher Dha of the chosen scale. The big letter is the swara, the small one its note for that scale.