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How to create multiple Tukdas or Tihais from single Tihai

By Shivraj Sawant 4,489 views Tags: Tihai

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In this post I am going to show you how can you create multiple Tukdas / Tihais if you know at least one Tihai. This is one of the part I discovered while thinking about Tihai.

Before we dive, you need to know patterns of notes/bols for 1, 2, 3  . . . beats & basic mathematical ability of addition & subtraction of numbers.

Here is example of bol patterns of 2 beats
[melody start]
[1|2][lyrics]
[T4|T8][tabla]
[D1|T4][tabla]
[T4R1|K2T8][tabla]
[melody end]
Example of bol patterns of 3 beats
[melody start]
[1|2|3][lyrics]
[D1|T4|T8][tabla]
[D1|D1|T4][tabla]
[D1|T4R1|K2T8][tabla]
[melody end]
We will need these patterns for creating multiple Tihais

Ok, now lets take very simple Tihai of taal Teentaal, we will create two more Tihais from this Tihai.
[melody start]
[Dha|Dhin|Dhin|Dha|Dha|Dhin|Dhin|Dha|Dha|Tin|Tin|Ta|Ta|Dhin|Dhin|Dha][lyrics]
[1|2|3|4|DHA|GAP|1|2|3|4|DHA|GAP|1|2|3|4][lyrics]
[D1|D1|T4|T8|D1|-|D1|D1|T4|T8|D1|-|D1|D1|T4|T8][tabla]
[D1|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-][tabla]
[melody end]
In above Tihai below four beats phrase is repeated three times with gap of 1 beat & of course ended with Dha
[melody start]
[1|2|3|4][lyrics]
[D1|D1|T4|T8][tabla]
[melody end]

Lets derive first Tihai.

Step 1 : Subtract one beat from above phrase, so remaining beats are three
    [ 4 - 1 ( SUBTRACTED BEAT ) = 3 ( NEW PHRASE )  ]
[melody start]
[1|2|3][lyrics]
[D1|T4|T8][tabla]
[melody end]

Step 2 :   Phrase is repeated three times so multiply this SUBTRACTED BEAT by 3. We get three beats in this case 
[ 1 ( SUBTRACTED BEAT )  *  3 = 3 ]
[melody start]
[1|2|3][lyrics]
[1|1|1][lyrics]
[D1|T4|T8][tabla]
[melody end]

Step 3 :  Play three beats we got in STEP TWO &amp; continue Tihai with NEW PHRASE of three beats which we got in FIRST STEP,  keep the gap same
[melody start]
[Dha|Dhin|Dhin|Dha|Dha|Dhin|Dhin|Dha|Dha|Tin|Tin|Ta|Ta|Dhin|Dhin|Dha][lyrics]
[1|2|3|1|2|3|DHA|GAP|1|2|3|DHA|GAP|1|2|3][lyrics]
[D1|T4|T8|D1|T4|T8|D1|-|D1|T4|T8|D1|-|D1|T4|T8][tabla]
[D1|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-][tabla]
[melody end]
Auh? 
Lets derive second Tihai, this will help to clear your questions.

[melody start]
[1|2|3|4][lyrics]
[D1|D1|T4|T8][tabla]
[melody end]

Step 1 :  Subtract two beats from above phrase, so remaining beats are two
    [ 4 - 2 ( SUBTRACTED BEAT ) = 2 ( NEW PHRASE )  ]
[melody start]
[1|2][lyrics]
[D1|T4][tabla]
[melody end]

Step 2 :   Phrase is repeated three times so multiply this SUBTRACTED BEAT by 3. We get six beats in this case 
[ 2 ( SUBTRACTED BEAT )  *  3 = 6 ]
[melody start]
[1|2|3|4|5|6][lyrics]
[1|2|1|2|1|2][lyrics]
[D1|T4|T8|D1|T4|T8][tabla]
[melody end]

Step 3 :  Play six beats we got in STEP TWO &amp; continue Tihai with NEW PHRASE of two beats which we got in the FIRST STEP, keep the gap same
[melody start]
[Dha|Dhin|Dhin|Dha|Dha|Dhin|Dhin|Dha|Dha|Tin|Tin|Ta|Ta|Dhin|Dhin|Dha][lyrics]
[1|2|3|4|5|6|1|2|DHA|GAP|1|2|DHA|GAP|2|3][lyrics]
[D1|T4|T8|D1|T4|T8|D1|T4|D1|-|D1|T4|D1|-|D1|T4][tabla]
[D1|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-][tabla]
[melody end]
Got it? feel free to share your questions/feedback as comments, I will try to reply it.

Same logic we can apply to any known Tihai & interesting thing is that we can easily create & play Tihai which seems to be mathematically complex,  which just comes on sum and nowhere else :-)

You can also apply same logic to Chakradhar Tihais . . . .  :-)

If you think little deeper, 
1. When you apply this logic to Tihai, it becomes Tukda. We have applied it in our Tukda generator utility
http://vishwamohini.com/music/tukda-generator.php

2. When you apply same logic to Chakdhar Tihai, it becomes Chakdhar. We have applied it in our Chakradhar generator utility.
http://vishwamohini.com/music/chakradhar-generator.php

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