About Kanth

Kanth (कंठ) means the throat, the voice. It is a free vocal studio from Nathaniel School of Music, Bangalore.

Where the exercises come from

Every exercise page lists its sources. The library draws on long-established vocal pedagogy and on teachers who publish their lessons openly:

• Jacob's Vocal Academy (17)
• Dots Singing (17)
• shivkumar.org (14)
• karnatik.com (14)
• NSM original (10)
• Pattern (7)
• NIOS (Government of India) (6)
• Aussie Vocal Coach (4)
• Musical Theatre Resources (4)
• Titze 2006 (3)
• Seth Riggs, Speech Level Singing (3)
• Cheryl Porter (3)
• Singeo (3)
• Co-Vo (3)
• Complete Vocal Technique (3)
• VoxGuru (3)
• Riyaz Daily (3)
• Wikipedia (3)
• Stoney (3)
• OctavesOnline (2)
• British Kodály Academy (2)
• Spardha School of Music (2)
• G. B. Lamperti, The Technics of Bel Canto (1905) (2)
• Michele Weir (2)
• Goodrich (1)
• National Center for Voice and Speech (Ingo Titze) (1)
• NSM original (a standard warm-up idea, set to the ladder) (1)
• Madeleine Harvey (1)
• Ramsey Voice Studio (1)
• Elizabeth Prince (1)
• Flow Singing School (1)
• Estill Voice Training (1)
• Passaggio and vowel modification (1)
• Vocal Warm Ups (1)
• New York Vocal Coaching (1)
• Dr Dan's Voice Essentials (1)
• Manuel García II, Traité complet de l’art du chant (IMSLP) (1)
• Format (1)
• Bob Stoloff, Scat! Vocal Improvisation Techniques (Gerard and Sarzin) (1)
• Bebop vocabulary as taught in jazz improvisation methods; pattern NSM original (1)
• Riyaz TV (1)
• Nagamani Srinath (1)
• Standard alankar shape; NSM original setting (1)
• Bidisha Ghosh (1)
• Siddhant Pruthi (1)
• Swarganga (1)
• Cell walked through the scale (1)
• NIOS (1)
• Manuel Garcia, Hints on Singing (1894) (1)
• Carried down to the tonic (1)
• Pentatonic riff warm-up (1)
• Minor pentatonic riff with harmony chords (1)
• Growing order (1)
• Berklee (1)
• Major bebop scale warm-up for singers (1)
• Guide tones (3rds and 7ths) are standard jazz theory; exercise (1)
• Extreme Vocal Institute (1)
• NSM original, using the Carnatic solkattu syllables (1)
• NSM original; Yaman phrases are standard (1)

Exercises marked NSM original were designed at Nathaniel School of Music.

Privacy

• No accounts and no sign-up. Your settings, saved exercises, homework and practice log stay in your own browser.
• The microphone is used only to measure pitch, inside your browser. Nothing is recorded or uploaded.
• A live class keeps the class code, the exercise on screen, each student's first name and last score on our server for up to four hours, then they are deleted on their own.
• No advertising and no tracking cookies.

Credits

• Piano: the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0), as played in NSM's Pitara and Lipi.
• Tanpura: acoustic multi-key drones from Raga Junglism (open-access), as used in the Melakarta Sphere.
• Notation: VexFlow (MIT) with the Bravura music font (SIL Open Font License).
• QR codes: qrcode-generator by Kazuhiko Arase (MIT). "QR Code" is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE.
• Type: Rozha One, Mukta and DM Mono from Google Fonts (SIL Open Font License).

Learn with us

Kanth is part of a family of free tools from NSM. Find them all at apps.nathanielschool.com, or join a live vocal class at nathanielschool.com. Enrolled students practise on the learning portal.