KALYAN THAAT ／ Evening · 6–9 pm

Yaman यमन

An evening raga with the luminous colour of tivra Ma. Let Ni–Re–Ga unfold before returning gently to Sa.

VADIGaSAMVADINiCHARACTERLuminous · expansive
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

Nị Re Ga Ma♯ Pa Dha Ni Sa′

↘ Avroh

Sa′ Ni Dha Pa Ma♯ Ga Re Sa

∿ Pakad

Nị Re Ga Re Sa

LISTEN & EXPLORE

Hear Yaman.

YOUR INSTRUMENT

A short alap

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

RECORDED INSTRUMENT

Yaman on sitar

A short sitar performance from Wikimedia Commons.

0:00 / 1:43

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

Tito Dutta; embedded author credit: Santosh Biswas · Source ↗ · CC BY-SA 3.0

Recording credits & changes

Sitar sample yaman. Converted from Ogg Vorbis to MP3 (64 kbps; original 8 kHz sample rate retained); full recording, no cuts or pitch changes. No endorsement implied.

GAT · TEENTAAL

Evening light

Original educational gat · Raag Studio

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

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

RHYTHM COMPANION ताल
— / 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.