KHAMAJ THAAT ／ Night · 9 pm–12 am

Des देस

Shuddha Ni lifts the ascent; komal Ni softens the descent in this flowing evening raga.

VADIReSAMVADIPaCHARACTEROpen · lyrical

YOUR INSTRUMENT

SA / TONICFINE TUNE

Raga swaras · dimmed notes remain playable4 OCTAVES · 49 KEYS

Type A W S E D… in chromatic order. Drag for meend.

Typing octaveMiddle

Volume

↗ Aaroh

Sa Re Ma Pa Ni Sa′

↘ Avroh

Sa′ Ni♭ Dha Pa Dha Ma Ga Re Ga Nị Sa

∿ Pakad

Re Ma Pa Ni Sa′ Ni♭ Dha Pa Ma Ga Re

LISTEN & EXPLORE

Hear Des.

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 / 8:43

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

NCERT OFFICIAL · Source ↗ · CC BY 3.0

Recording credits & changes

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

GAT · TEENTAAL

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Original educational gat · Raag Studio

sthayiThe foundation

Sa━Re━Ma━Pa━Ma━Ga━Re━Ga━Nị━Sa━Re━Re━

antaraThe upper register

Re━Ma━Pa━Ni━Sa′━Re′━Sa′━Ni♭━Dha━Pa━Ma━Ga━Re━Sa━

Repeat compositionEach section spans two taal cycles.

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

RHYTHM COMPANION ताल

Taal

— / 164 + 4 + 4 + 4

X1Dha

·2Dhin

·3Dhin

·4Dha

•5Dha

·6Dhin

·7Dhin

·8Dha

09Na

·10Tin

·11Tin

·12Na

•13Ta

·14Dhin

·15Dhin

·16Dha

X sam0 khali

TEMPO84 BPM

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