| To transport the meditative, profound, cooling and soothing feeling of alap into the gat, Abhijit Banerjee uses a larger tabla with more bass, which he plays in a manner suitable to the theme. |
| Shankar opened with a sensitive alap section, the unaccompanied prelude that ruminates upon the melodic materials of each raga. |
| We will start with an alap improvisation, then the question-answer, very strong melodyhanging, then percussion solos. |
| First, they outlined the raga in alap and they followed it up with compositions. |
| Thomas, from Whit church, Cardiff, told the Echo he would love to do alap of honour draped in the Red Dragon. |
| The short melodic phrases that wind up the alap here are unmistakably reminiscent of the slower but more abundant style of the rabab. |
