rovisation, accompanied by a harmonium or bowed string instrument such as the sarangi or violin playing off the singer's melody line, a set of two hand drums (the tabla), and a drone in the background. The role of the accompanist playing the melody-producing instrument is to provide continuity when the singer pauses for breath, using small variations of the singer's phrases or parts thereof. While there is a wide variety of rhythmic patterns that could be used by the percussionist, ඛ්‍යාප් performances typically use Ektaal, Jhoomra, Jhaptaal, Tilwada, Teentaal, Rupak, and Adachautaal [3].A typical ඛ්‍යාල් performance uses two songs — the බඩා ඛ්‍යාල් or great ඛ්‍යාල්, in slow tempo (විලම්භ ලය), comprises most of the performance, while the chhota ඛ්‍යාල් (small ඛ්‍යාල්), in fast tempo (දෘත ලය), is used as a finale and is usually in the same raga but a different තාල [2]. The songs are sometimes preceded by improvised ආලප් to sketch the basic raga structure without drum accompaniment; ala