Can Everyone Recognise Swaras? What Swaragyaan Actually Means Yes. Everyone. "Yes — because this ability is built into your ears. The physiological construction of our ears is such that we have a preference for specific relationships. These relationships are known as harmonic relationships." This is the payoff of everything in the harmonics post. Sa to Pa is a particular distance, and when you land on it your body responds: "The distance from Sa to Pa is such that it gives me

In the previous lesson we asked how many saptaks a raga actually needs. Every one of them is measured outward from a single note — the singer's Sa. This post asks where that Sa comes from, and who decides.