How to find the sargam of any song.

1. Generate it from your own recording

The fastest method: sing or play the song — into your phone, or with your harmonium mic’d up — and let Matra’s song-to-sargam converter write the swaras from the audio. Sa is pinned to your key, komal and tivra come out marked properly, and you can correct anything the engine gets wrong (it tells you where it isn’t sure). Works for any song you can perform — bhajans, film songs you sing yourself, your own compositions.

2. Work it out by ear against a drone

The traditional method, and still the best ear training there is. Put on a tanpura drone at your Sa, hum the song phrase by phrase, and find each swara against the drone. Slow — expect an evening for a full song — but every hour of this genuinely trains your ear. Start with the mukhda, find Sa first, then the vadi swara, then fill the phrase.

3. Find written notation

Teachers, notation books (Bhatkhande’s volumes for classical bandishes) and community forums have hand-written sargam for traditional and devotional music. Quality varies wildly, keys often don’t match yours, and copyrighted film songs are usually transcribed without permission — so treat free notes sites with care. For public-domain bhajans and folk tunes, this route is legitimate and often lovely.

Which method should you use?

Learning an instrument? Method 2, as often as you can stand it. Leading a satsang on Sunday and need six songs charted by Saturday? Method 1 — generate, then fix the handful of swaras the engine flags. Teaching? Generate first, correct with your ear, and hand students a clean PDF: the correction pass is itself a lesson.