Chakradar from Ustad Alla Rakha Khan

Posted on March 15, 2020March 16, 2020 by jamroktabla

This is a chakradar from Ustad Alla Rakha Khan in tintaal. My student Waqas found and liked this beautiful chakradar and asked me to transcribe it. I did it to the best of my ability and here is the result. We performed it at 200 bpm, while Ustad Alla Rakha & Ustad Zakir Hussain perform at about 290 bpm (@7:40 in first video).

This is a Farmaishi chakradar as well, where the first phrase in the first tehai falls on sam (i.e., beat one of cycle), second phrase in the second tehai falls on sam, and third phrase in last tehai falls on sam.