BSEH Secondary Music Tabla case studies
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The BSEH Secondary Music Tabla examination is the Class 10 music elective offered by the Board of School Education Haryana for students who choose percussion as their practical subject. It is aimed at school candidates who have studied tabla for two or three years and can already keep a steady theka, and it suits anyone building a foundation before higher secondary music or a diploma in performing arts. The BSEH Secondary Music Tabla case studies are 5 cases and about 3,235 words.
1The monsoon crack and the borrowed dayan
Six weeks before the BSEH Secondary practical, a candidate finds a 3 cm hairline crack in the maidan of her dayan, running from the edge of the syahi toward the kinar. The bayan, stored in the same room, has gone noticeably flat after a week of monsoon humidity; its baddhi is loose and one lug has begun to bind.
706 words, about 4 min2The metronome says 80, the lehra says otherwise
At 80 BPM on a metronome, a student can play the teentaal theka correctly, one bol per matra. Asked to demonstrate dugun, he plays the same 16-matra avartan in about 6 seconds but accents every second bol so heavily that the theka loses its shape; when he tries to return to barabar, he enters on matra 3 and cannot find sam.
696 words, about 3 min3The theka that added a matra
A candidate submits a handwritten theka for internal assessment. The heading says “Jhaptal - 10 matras”.
680 words, about 3 min4Is it a kayda or a tukda?
A student presents a four-avartan composition in teentaal for the solo section. Avartan 1 states a 4-bol phrase four times, with the last repetition ending on sam.
580 words, about 3 min5Following a vocalist who breathes in Ektaal
A candidate is rehearsing accompaniment for a semi-classical vocalist in vilambit Ektaal. The vocalist sets the tempo at 40 BPM and sings a phrase that stretches across two avartans, breathing after matra 9.
573 words, about 3 min