4/8/16 BEAT COMPOSITIONS FOR TABLA

Maintained by David Courtney, Ph.D. working tools

Here are a number of compositions in 4, 8, or 16 beats.  This falls within several common North Indian Tals, such as Tintal, Punjabi Theka (a.k.a. Sitarkhani), Tilwada, Kaherava, and Dhumali

Please make a selection:

Chakradar

1

2

Gat

1 | 2

Kaida

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18

Kaida-Rela

1

Laggi

1 | 2 | 3

Peshkar

1 | 2

Prakar

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Rela

1 | 2 | 3

Theka

1

Tukada

1

Uthan

1

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This page last updated Nov 19, 2008
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