u/expora

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Looking for solos/performance information

Hello from Mexico, everyone.

I've been learning online and found a solo for beginners that I can follow and play. Most things I find on the Internet are isolated structures or practice, and I have wondered how these elements are put together for a performance.

The one I found is in teental, starts with the theka, an uthaan, kayda, and paltas, has a tukra, tihais, etc. Some parts are joined with the theka, and it ends with a chakardar tihai.

It's clearly for beginners. The theme is made of bols I can play.

I know there are other things like peshkar, rela, etc., but even though I've learned some of them, I'm ignorant of the rules that help put these together into a solo.

I know, as an example, that paltas should derive from the bols of the original theme. Are there rules driving a solo as a whole? Can I mix a teental rela I learned with any other beginner teental kayda? Can I construct some of these sections?

I know the parts of a solo may be something like theka, uthaan, peshkar, kaida, rela, gat, tukras, final tihai... with tihais and the theka between them. Some videos and tutorials show these. Some are harder to find than others, but what's even harder is more info on the larger structures and how these are combined. I know that, eventually, a player will improvise, develop a style, but are there solos learned in the way the smaller sections are learned?

Do you know of any sources on this? Do you have files, links you can share? Or maybe care to comment?

I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!

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