Recording
Chhaap Tilak Sab Chheeni
Amir Khusrau
- Released
- 1300
- On one list
- Qawwali
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Analysis
8 sections, the first drop of 6 at 0:11, 4% of the way in.
- Tempo
- 103.4 BPM
- holds throughout
- Key
- F# minor
- estimated from the pitch content
- Dynamic range
- 1.3 dB
- compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- Length
- 4:28
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
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- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:13Bpeakbar 6
- 0:39Cpeakbar 17
- 1:05Dpeakbar 29
- 1:17Csteadybar 34
- 1:58Bsteadybar 51
- 2:59Bpeakbar 77
- 3:40Coutrobar 95
Drops at 0:11 (bar 5), 0:45 (bar 20), 1:37 (bar 42), 2:29 (bar 65), 3:38 (bar 94), 4:10 (bar 108). A drop is a moment, not a stretch — marked on the track above rather than shaded across it.
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · sung
- Lasts
- 0:13
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:26
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 49
- Density
- 20
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:26
- Energy
- 99
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 29
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung
- Lasts
- 0:12
- Energy
- 92
- Brightness
- 47
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:41
- Energy
- 79
- Brightness
- 9
- Density
- 28
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 1:01
- Energy
- 62
- Brightness
- 33
- Density
- 35
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:41
- Energy
- 92
- Brightness
- 6
- Density
- 18
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:48
- Energy
- 85
- Brightness
- 34
- Density
- 7
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- steady
- holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling
- outro
- the closing fall
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
Ranked No. 1 in Qawwali
Written by the man usually credited with inventing the form, welding Persian, Arabic, Turkic and Indian singing into one thing. Seven hundred years later every qawwal party still has it in the set.