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Practice Studios & Playgrounds

Real practice tools for each instrument — tala and drone, scales and sight-reading, first rhythms and backing tracks.

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What it does

Carnatic Swarly: a tala cycle with its hand gestures, and the swaras of the exercise below it.

Built for the instrument, not generic

A Carnatic vocalist needs tala, a drone and the swaras laid out properly; a drummer needs rhythms and play-alongs. These are separate tools because they are genuinely separate problems, not one app with the labels changed.

Piano Studio, showing the tools available and the level they are matched to.

Tuned to the level your child is actually on

Each studio knows which level your child has reached and offers what fits it. Nothing is out of reach, and nothing they mastered a year ago is still taking up the screen.

Drums Playground: short listening and clapping games written for ages four to seven.

Playground first, Studio later

The youngest children get a Playground — short games about clapping, listening and keeping time, built for ages four to seven. Students on the full course get a Studio, with scales, sight-reading and real repertoire.

And also

Included with the class

Enrol in a programme and its studio opens with it. There is no separate subscription and nothing more to buy.

What's included

Comes with your course

Enrol in the programme and the tool opens with it. Nothing extra to buy.

  • Carnatic Swarly

    Tala, drone, pitch and raga tools for Carnatic Vocals.

    the Carnatic courses

  • Piano Studio

    Scales, sight-reading and backing tracks for the full keyboard course.

    Keyboard

  • Piano Playground

    A gentler first keyboard, built for First Note beginners.

    First Note Keys

  • Drums Playground

    First rhythms and coordination, at beginner pace.

    First Note Drums

  • Ukulele Playground

    First chords and strumming patterns.

    First Note Ukulele

Being built

  • Drums Studio

    Rudiments, grooves, fills and play-alongs — tuned to your level.

  • Guitar Studio

    Chords, riffs, scales and backing tracks — tuned to your level.

Why we built this

A metronome app and a YouTube backing track will get a student through the week, but neither knows what they are working on. These do, because they are built against the same syllabus their teacher is using.

More on where that came from in our story.

The rest of the platform

ILS Home

One login, and everything your family has here is behind it.

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Family Hub

Every class, absence, fee and request for your child — in one place, on your phone.

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Readly

Browse the library, manage loans, and ask for the book you actually want.

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