Why limit yourself to your small screen on the phone? Run Raag Sadhana PRO – Harmonium, Tabla & Tanpura, an app by PSS Labs, best experienced on your PC or Mac with BlueStacks, the world’s #1 Android emulator.
So, Raag Sadhana PRO is this music app built for folks who are into Indian classical music—especially if you’re learning or practicing singing, playing tabla, or messing with harmonium. On a PC with BlueStacks, the whole thing feels a bit roomier, which is nice because you end up looking at a bunch of info about different raags, scales, beats, and whatnot. The app lets users explore 50 different raags with all the basics: thaat, pakad, aroha and avaroha, vadi and samvadi, and even the different parts of a song like sthayi and antara. All that’s laid out as you play along, so you don’t have to keep flipping between screens or squinting.
What’s cool is the way the tabla, tanpura, and harmonium sounds come together—it doesn’t feel boxy or robotic. There’s a beat counter and even little vibrations on every beat (though that’s probably more useful on a phone, but you can turn it off). Tabla learners will appreciate seeing the bols (those syllables played on tabla) pop up in time. If you’re singing or just practicing, the karaoke-style lyrics and notes make following along easy, so it’s less stressful to keep up. There’s a ton of options too: you can tinker with scales, pitch, tempo, solo playback for certain raag parts, and choose from a bunch of tanpura sounds.
For anyone studying Indian classical—maybe following Bhatkhande or in music school—having all those raags categorized and ready to play with is super handy. It’s the kind of app that stays running in the background without stopping, so you can just focus on your practice. There’s nothing complicated about jumping between settings either. Overall, it doesn’t try to do too much, but what it does do is make learning and practicing less of a hassle, especially when the bigger PC screen and mouse make things easier to control.
Eager to take your app experience to the next level? Start right away by downloading BlueStacks on your PC or Mac.
