What is Gat in Indian classical music?
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Prologue to Gat
The gat is a proper compositional structure that is typically acted in tabla solo. In many gharanas, gats are a strength. Furthermore, a few uncommon gats are among the most esteemed organizations in a player's collection. The further developed gats are frequently extremely challenging to play, and require a genuine expert to perform well.
In spite of the fact that gats are presently found in all gharanas, they are most grounded in the purab gharanas (Lucknow, Farrukhabad, and Benares). Lucknow and Farrukhabad specifically are notable for their rich assortment of gats.
Most gats are created in tintal (16 beat cycle). Despite the fact that there are gats made in, or adjusted to, other tals, it appears they are more uncommon than different structures in those tals, for example, kayda, rela, tukra, or chakradar.
When acted in tabla solo, gats are generally rehashed somewhere around two times. They are generally played later in an exhibition at medium or quicker beats.
A Difficult Form to Define
The gat is maybe the most troublesome structure to characterize in the old style tabla collection.
In Northern old style music and dance, the term gat signifies "piece" or "structure". From certain perspectives, gat is additionally connected with "development" or "walk" (gati - गति). Thus gat has been utilized to allude to various sorts of structures in tabla, in melodic kinds, and in kathak dance.
This part of the way makes sense of why the gat isn't obviously characterized: there are basically such a large number of various types of organizations called "gat". Additionally, in some tabla ancestries, a few gats and tukras might be exceptionally close in structure. This unquestionably has added to the disarray about how to characterize the gat.
Normal Gat Characteristics
Since there are such countless various types of gats, I will examine just the most widely recognized and shallow elements beneath. Albeit these attributes are normal to Benares gats, they are additionally normal to numerous gats in other gharanas.
However, note that there numerous gats in Benares and other gharanas which don't share these qualities.
Various types of Gats
Each gharana has various types of gats with various names. The model gat given toward the start of this part is a very notable basic gat (called as it were "gat") in Benares. Straightforward gats which are basically the same as this one are normal in purab gharanas.
In Benares there are different sorts of gats with names, for example, dupalli, tipalli, chaupalli, darje, janani, punjabi, lahori, chakradar and others. Other gharanas may likewise have a portion of these yet will likewise have various names not found in other gharanas.