Rag Desh 3

Question 1

What is a bansuri?

Answer 1

Bamboo flute

Has holes instead of keys

Question 2

What is an esraj

Answer 2

Bowed string instrument

Question 3

What is a shruti box

Answer 3

Electronic drone

Question 4

What is a swarmandel?

Answer 4

Plucked string instrument

Like a zither

Question 5

What instruments are used in rag desh 3?

Answer 5

Bansuri
Esraj
Shruti box
Swarmandel
Tabla

Question 6

What is rupak tal?

Answer 6

7 beat cycle

3+2+2

Question 7

What is ektal?

Answer 7

12 beat cycle

2+2+2+2+2+2

Question 8

What notes are the drone in the alap?

Answer 8

D and A

Question 9

What instrument introduces rag notes?

Answer 9

Bansuri

Question 10

What takes over from the bansuri and alternates improvised melodys?

Answer 10

Esraj

Question 11

What is the tempo in the alap?

Answer 11

Slow

Question 12

Does it have a pulse?

Answer 12

No it has not pulse

Question 13

What tal is gat 1?

Answer 13

Rupak

Question 14

How does gat 1 begin?

Answer 14

Bansuri solo

Question 15

30 seconds later what enters?

Answer 15

The tabla

Question 16

Bansuri and tabla improvise …

Answer 16

Around the gat and tal

Question 17

How does gat 1 finish?

Answer 17

A tihai

Question 18

Is gat 2 fast or slow?

Answer 18

Fast

Question 19

What tal is gat 2

Answer 19

Ektal

Question 20

How does gat 2 start?

Answer 20

Tabla solo

Question 21

What does the does the bansuri play in gat 2?

Answer 21

Tans (fast scales)

Question 22

How does gat 2 finish?

Answer 22

3 tihais