Tabla App Learn Tabla Bols, Taals & Compositions

Dha classifies your strokes and grades your timing against the taal on-device — no ads, no account, and audio never leaves your iPhone.

Bols and taal, classified stroke by stroke.

Your playing never leaves your device: listening, transcription, and grading run on-device. No account, no ads, no trackers.

Tabla is pitch-free — it's about strokes (bols) and rhythmic cycles (taal). Soloist classifies the strokes you play and teaches the taal of North Indian classical rhythm.

Bol stroke classification

Hears Dha, Dhin, Na, Tin — the strokes, not pitch.

Taal cycles

Learn and keep the rhythmic cycles of Hindustani music.

Honest rhythm feedback

Timing graded against the taal.

How honest grading works

Listen.
Play your take and Dha: Tabla Bols & Taal captures it through the microphone, processing everything on your device. Audio is never uploaded — our backend has no audio endpoints at all.
Measure.
Tabla has no pitch to grade, so the engine classifies each stroke you play — Dha, Dhin, Na, Tin — and measures your timing against the taal, beat by beat.
Report.
You see which notes rang true, which didn't, and what to loop next — drills built from your actual rough spots. An unclear take is left ungraded, never turned into a confident mistake.

Real screens. Real practice.

Inside Dha: Tabla Bols & Taal, screen by screen.

The Soloist Tabla play screen with the Teental cycle wheel, theka bols, and tempo — Teental on the wheel, bols in the theka

Soloist Tabla riyaz cycle practice with Play and Grade-my-turn controls — Play a cycle, get honest timing and bol feedback

The Soloist Tabla foundations course teaching Na, Tin and Tun, Ge, and Dha — The first bols, stroke by stroke

Songs & free notation

42 public-domain and original works with full, readable notation — read them free here, then let Dha: Tabla Bols & Taal grade your take note by note.

Questions

Does it grade pitch?

No — tabla is unpitched; it classifies bols and grades timing.

Which taals?

The core North-Indian-classical cycles, taught step by step.

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Dha: Tabla Bols & Taal is free to download and genuinely playable without paying — here is exactly what stays free, and what Soloist Pro adds.

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