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----- Original Message ----- From: "Lanpheer, James A" <Lanpheer.James.A@broadband.att.com> > That phrase is a series of tabla bols (pronounced 'bowl') that i'm >working > on that is a famous composition of Anindo Chatterjee, of the Lucknow > gharana, which he taught to us during a workshop after a solo tabla house > concert that he gave in the home of my teacher. The composition form is > rela (a faster and looser form usually played towards the end of the > development of a raga) and the taal is tintal, 16 beats. > > The taal looks like this: > Dha Dhin Dhin Dha > Dha Dhin Dhin Dha > Dha Tin Tin Ta > Ta Dhin Dhin Da > > The composition would mesh into taal like this (each capital letter > represents a stroke): > Dha TaKa TinNe NaKa > DinNe DinNe TaKa DhinNe > (there are three or four possibilities that i'm working on for the khali > secition, i'm including one) > Na TinNe KaTa DinNe > NaKa DhaKa DhinNe KaNe > and then, on to variations or back to taal... Ah...I'm hip to tintal, I just didn't know what this was. Thanks and good luck with getting your variations together, it's a lot of work! :) > > I've been slaving over this and about 20 variations of this for the last two > months, but i'm getting there... Its BEAUTIFUL when you can get it up to > tempo, (which i'm just starting to get a taste of)! d B * David Beardsley * http://biink.com * http://mp3.com/davidbeardsley