KAFI THAAT / Afternoon · 12–3 pm

Bhimpalasi भीमपलासी

A quiet afternoon conversation around Ma, with komal Ga and Ni lending a wistful colour.

VADIMaSAMVADISaCHARACTERTender · reflective
YOUR INSTRUMENT
Raga swaras · dimmed notes remain playable4 OCTAVES · 49 KEYS
Type A W S E D… in chromatic order. Drag for meend.
Typing octaveMiddle
↗ Aaroh

Ni♭̣ Sa Ga♭ Ma Pa Ni♭ Sa′

↘ Avroh

Sa′ Ni♭ Dha Pa Ma Ga♭ Re Sa

∿ Pakad

Ni♭̣ Sa Ga♭ Ma Pa Ma Ga♭ Re Sa

LISTEN & EXPLORE

Hear Bhimpalasi.

YOUR INSTRUMENT

A short alap

Harmonium · Sa C♯. An unmetered phrase exploration with this raga’s pakad.

RECORDED VOICE

Rag Ras Barse · NCERT

A full Hindi teaching programme with musical demonstrations. Includes spoken introduction.

0:00 / 15:10

Original pitch and tempo. Keyboard highlights follow the synthesized instrument only.

NCERT OFFICIAL · Source ↗ · CC BY 3.0

Recording credits & changes

Rag Bhimpalasi - NCERT. Converted from Ogg Vorbis to MP3 (128 kbps); full recording, no cuts or pitch changes. No endorsement implied.

GAT · TEENTAAL

Afternoon reverie

Original educational gat · Raag Studio

sthayiThe foundation
Ni♭̣━Sa━Ga♭━Ma━Ma━Pa━Ma━Ga♭━Ma━Ga♭━Re━Sa━
antaraThe upper register
Ma━Pa━Ni♭━Sa′━Sa′━Ni♭━Dha━Pa━Ma━Ga♭━Re━Sa━
Each section spans two taal cycles.

Changing taal adapts the gat’s relative rhythm to the new cycle.

— / 164 + 4 + 4 + 4
X1Dha
·2Dhin
·3Dhin
·4Dha
•5Dha
·6Dhin
·7Dhin
·8Dha
09Na
·10Tin
·11Tin
·12Na
•13Ta
·14Dhin
·15Dhin
·16Dha

X sam0 khali

84 BPM

Tempo and taal changes stop playback. Press play to begin the new cycle.