ASAVARI THAAT / Late night · 12–3 am

Darbari Kanada दरबारी कान्हड़ा

Explore the lower register and curved descents of this unhurried late-night raga.

VADIReSAMVADIPaCHARACTERDeep · contemplative
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

Sa Re Ga♭ Ma Pa Dha♭ Ni♭ Sa′

↘ Avroh

Sa′ Dha♭ Ni♭ Pa Ma Pa Ga♭ Ma Re Sa

∿ Pakad

Sa Re Ga♭ Re Ga♭ Ma Re Sa

LISTEN & EXPLORE

Hear Darbari Kanada.

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 / 12:24

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

NCERT OFFICIAL · Source ↗ · CC BY 3.0

Recording credits & changes

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

GAT · TEENTAAL

Midnight court

Original educational gat · Raag Studio

sthayiThe foundation
Sa━Re━Ga♭━Re━Ga♭━Ma━Re━Sa━Ni♭̣━Sa━Re━Sa━
antaraThe upper register
Ma━Pa━Dha♭━Ni♭━Sa′━Dha♭━Ni♭━Pa━Ma━Pa━Ga♭━Ma━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.