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Re: OT: miniTablas
----- 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
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