Karatchi

From crispyneurons

Karatchi (or karatshi) is a fast 2/4 from Pakistan, though it is used commonly in modern Egyptian and North African music. It seems to be a kind of inverse ayyoub, in which each dum is replaced with a tek.

In its most basic form it plays like this:

1 + 2 + 
T  kT D

[edit] Variations

[edit] variation 1:

1 + 2 + 
T kkT D

[edit] variation 2:

1 + 2 + 
TktkT D

[edit] variation 3: dum-started alternate

1 + 2 + 
D kkT D