@PlancksTime He's talking about fitting a 5 and 1/4 beat phrase 3 times (called a tihai) into into Tintaal. Tintaal is a 16 beat taal (time cycle). The reason it's called Tintaal (literally = 3 claps) is because every taal in Indian classical music is divided into groups of claps and waves and Ti...
@PlancksTime He's talking about fitting a 5 and 1/4 beat phrase 3 times (called a tihai) into into Tintaal. Tintaal is a 16 beat taal (time cycle). The reason it's called Tintaal (literally = 3 claps) is because every taal in Indian classical music is divided into groups of claps and waves and Ti...