Hey All,
For some background, I am an Developer and researcher with a specific interest in Music Information Retrieval. I have also played the tabla for over 11 years now. I wanted to gauge the Tabla community for how interested teachers, learners, and students would be in a comprehensive Tabla app designed for Asynchronus learning, and practice. The app trained on datasets that contain over 28,000 strokes, and use 4-way tabla bol classification to verify playing accuracy (using MFCCs, central spectroid etc.) . In more simple terms, it puts bols into 4 categories, and uses context, as well as frequency to determine if the right bol was played.
Structure:
The App is structured similar to Duolingo, which ideally encourages students to practice more, adding a gamified effect to the app.

Notice:
THIS APP IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE TABLA TEACHERS WHATSOEVER.
Although bols can be played and players can practice from videos within the app, along with AI recognition of playing, no AI or tool can EVER replace the expertise of a Tabla teacher. It is a great starting stage for beginners to learn the basics, and will hopefully encourage more people to play Tabla, but again by no means is it nor can it be a replacement for human teachers. This tool is designed to aid tabla teachers to assign work, and give out asynchronus work while encouraging players to practice with feedback in that work.
LAUNCH:
Our expected launch date is September 15th, 2026. (Updates will be posted on all socials)
Paywall:
We will always have a free tier service for our app. However, the AI tool requires a significant amount of API usage, and we therefore may need to set up a subscription cost for the AI tool use. However, I have come here to seek support for funding, and wanted to see if people are interested enough to crowdsource this process.
Not for Profit:
This app does not seek to make a profit, as revenue will be distributed only to cover costs and expand the usage limits for users.
Crowdsourcing:
If you are interested in supporting this project, please reach out to the email below. Any funding will directly go towards API operation costs, and will greatly help usage limits for users.

Questions for the community:

1. Would you use something like this for your own practice, or would you rather just record yourself and listen back?
2. If you're a teacher, would you consider recommending something like this to students for between-lesson practice?
3. What thekas or compositions would you want covered first?
4. What's your biggest frustration with practicing tabla without a teacher present?

Contacts:
Instagram: MyTablaTeacher

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MyTablaTeacher

Email: MyTablaTeacher@gmail.com

I don’t recall any collaboration between them and the album art looks AI generated.

Hi everyone,

I’m a bansuri player and musician, and over the past months I’ve been building an Android app called Tanpura Atmosphere.

It started because I wanted something a little more inspiring than the usual tanpura app — not only a drone, but an environment I could actually enjoy improvising and practising with.

Alongside the tanpura, the app includes things like atmospheric drone layers, tabla, swarmandal, nature ambience, advanced recording features with reverb, and other tools for practice and improvisation.

The free version already has quite a lot in it, and I’d genuinely love for musicians here to try it and tell me what works, what doesn’t, and what you would want from an app like this.

You can find Tanpura Atmosphere on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tanpuraatmosphere.app&hl=en

If you try it, feel free to send feedback, bug reports, ideas, criticism, etc. to:

resnick.aviv@gmail.com (or using the feedback button in the app)

I’m also interested in collaborating with musicians.

If you enjoy the app but can’t/don’t want to pay for Pro, here’s one way to get a lifetime Pro licence:

Make a video of yourself genuinely playing/practising with Tanpura Atmosphere, clearly mention “Tanpura Atmosphere” on screen and in the description, and if the video reaches 1,000 views, send me the link and I’ll give you lifetime Pro.

It doesn’t need to be an advertisement — I’d actually much rather see real music being made with it.

I’m still actively improving the app, so feedback from people who actually practise Indian classical music is particularly valuable.

Thanks, and I’d be curious to hear what you think.

Attended “Milaaf” recently. The first half was classical music by Aniruddh Aithal and the second half was Kannad and Marathi Natyasangeet by Aniruddh Aithal and Abhishek Kale.

This was a great concept, and Aniruddh is talented and trained exceptionally well.

If it does come in your city, do attend!

I've been really enjoying this performance of Raag Nat Bhairav performed by Soumitra Thakur and Yashwant Vaishnav.

Could anyone explain the taal the gat is in (starts at around 9min 40)? It seems to be in 7, but not sure how it should be counted or where the melody line starts.

Thanks so much!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2rjgC-2C0&t=320s