Practice Mode

Practice in AnuLaya is split into three focused surfaces, all reachable from any composition:

• Listen mode — hear the composition before you play.
• Record mode — record yourself playing along with metronome and lehra accompaniment.
• Practice Stats — review every past session, score it, and turn good takes into reference recordings or class submissions.

Listen mode

Tap Listen on a composition to enter Listen mode. The Ready screen shows the composition title, taal, tempo, and the playback source. When a composition has an artist reference recording, a Recording / Synthesized segmented picker appears so you can choose between them:

• Recording — plays the artist's reference recording. Reference recordings always play at the tempo they were recorded at, and the tempo control is disabled.
• Synthesized — plays the composition through the built-in tabla samples and lehra. Tempo is adjustable.

When no reference recording exists, Listen mode falls back to synthesized playback automatically.

Tap Listen to start. The cycle position, completed cycles, and elapsed time stay visible while playback runs. Use this mode to internalise a new composition before recording yourself.

If a section is selected from the player grid, Listen mode starts with that section scoped (the header reads Section: instead of Full composition).

Record mode

Tap Record to capture yourself playing along. The Ready state confirms what you are about to record before any audio rolls:

• composition title, author, and class context (if shared)
• taal, tempo, and lehra accompaniment
• audio-route warnings — see the section below
• a tempo control, if you want to slow the take down

Tap Record to start. AnuLaya counts in with theka beats and a GO marker on Sam, then switches into the recording display: a large beat counter, REC indicator, completed cycle count, and elapsed time. The grid scrolls with you and highlights the current row.

Tap Stop to end the take. Recordings shorter than 30 seconds are not saved.

Audio routing

Record mode checks the audio route every time you open it:

• No headphones — a yellow banner reads Speaker audio may leak into recording. Use Check Again after plugging in headphones, or Continue Anyway to proceed knowing the metronome will be in the recording.
• Headphones with headset mic — a blue banner reads Using headphone microphone. Enable Use Built-in Microphone in Settings → Recording Audio for better tabla capture.
• Headphones with built-in mic — no warning.

Cycle review and clips

After you stop, AnuLaya opens a cycle picker so you can keep just the cycles you want. Selected cycles can be saved as a clip for sharing, posting to a class, or promoting to a reference recording. The full session is still saved to Practice Stats either way.

Practice Stats

Open the Practice tab to reach Practice Stats. The header switches between two segmented tabs:

• History — every session you have run, grouped by date. Each row shows composition, taal, tempo, duration, and class context.
• Calendar — a month view showing which days you practiced, useful for keeping a streak.

Tap a session to open the detail screen. From there you can:

• Play back the audio recording.
• Create Clip — open the cycle picker to extract a shareable excerpt.
• Record Again — jump straight back into Record mode for the same composition.
• Delete Audio — remove just the audio file but keep the session metadata and stats.
• Delete Recording — remove the session entirely.

Sessions posted to a class show a class pill in the detail header.

Tips

• Use headphones with the built-in microphone for the cleanest take.
• Start at a slower tempo and step up only when the take feels relaxed.
• Use section practice from the player grid to drill the hard parts before recording the full composition.
• Promote your best take to a reference recording from the cycle picker — Listen mode will then play that audio for everyone who opens the composition.