The whole point in those alankars is for you to use your ears to follow the notes. I have always maintained (and it is true) that music is an aural art form. So the learning should use minimal visual help (like tuners or notations) – unless you are learning a song and would like to keep a notation sheet for reference.

There is a fundamental approach to vocal music on any instrument – This is based on syllables. We use strokes of the tongue to depict the syllables. With respect to aakar, as it is a vowel sound, we avoid the tongue and use finger technique to move between the notes. An elaborate explanation for this has been given in the Indore Workshop. Please watch that for an in-depth understanding for Gayaki ang on Bansuri.

There is also a mention of the 23 unique vowel and consonant sounds we can produce on the bansuri using the tongue – this can be found in the technique master class course. Do watch that too! 🙂

Hope this helps!

As I understand it, it is detail agnostic. When we use the extension on Chrome, it gives us the ability to only Globally change pitch and tempo separately. Unlike an auto-tuner plugin which pitch ‘corrects’ the audio, this extension only allows / shifts pitch and time elastically with minimum artefacts. 🙂