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About us
Riyaazi is the word Indian musicians use for daily, devoted practice — the quiet hour before school, the scales sung into a tanpura drone, the same kaida played until the hands stop asking questions. It is how every artist you have ever admired was made. We named the academy after it because it is the one thing we actually teach.
We started Riyaazi for families like the ones we grew up in — and especially for the ones now far from home. Across the US, the UK and the Gulf, parents kept telling us the same story: a child genuinely curious about tabla or Kathak or ragas, a local market full of generic music apps, and no real guru within a hundred miles. YouTube could show their children the art; nobody was there to correct their hands.
So we built the simplest thing that actually works: live, one-to-one classes with serious gurus in India, scheduled around your family’s evenings, taught the way these arts have always been passed on — one student, one teacher, full attention. No batches, no recordings pretending to be teaching, no shortcuts. Just riyaaz, made possible across an ocean.
What we believe
There is no fast version of these arts, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we can promise is that every minute of practice is pointed in the right direction — and that progress, done right, is steady and audible.
A great teacher is the whole product. Ours are practising artists who perform what they teach, chosen as much for patience and warmth as for their playing. We would rather grow slowly than compromise here.
We are not building a content library or a thousand-student batch machine. Every student is known by name, by level, and by what they played last week. That only works at a human scale, so that is the scale we keep.
Parents sit in on classes whenever they like. Grandparents in India are often the first audience. We write home every four classes because learning an art should be something the whole family can hear happening.
Sixteen beats on our logo, one for each class in a full pack — because at Riyaazi, even the pricing keeps taal.
The free trial is the honest way to judge us — 40 minutes, one teacher, your child.