Miyan ki Todi

Todi thaat is often called one of the most technically demanding scales in Hindustani music, and Miyan ki Todi is its defining raga — komal Re, komal Ga, and komal Dha alongside tivra Ma give it a serious, searching character quite different from anything in the more familiar Kalyan or Bilawal-family ragas. Pa is used only sparingly in performance (closer to a passing note than a structural one), so it's left out of the aroha and avaroha here, the same simplification used for Bageshri's Pa. Traditionally performed late in the morning, it rewards slow, deliberate movement between its closely-spaced komal notes.