Why does a musician regularly practice paltas? – an interesting question with a normal answer – पलटा बजाने से गला या हाथ तैय्यार होता है | Then the next question would be ‘why’ – why through practicing paltas voice or hand becomes tayyar or dexterous with clarity?
After much thought, I felt that the real reason for practicing paltas and the ready answer ‘तैय्यार होता है’ has an intrinsic and psychological reason.
When one practices paltas, after playing the paltas for 15 – 20 times, the mind starts wandering with random thoughts. Then who guides the execution of paltas? The answer is that, it is the subconscious mind, which is involved in the actual execution of the paltas, while the thoughts in the conscious mind are somewhere else. In other words, it is by practicing paltas several times, the bifurcation of conscious and subconscious mind occurs. In reality, as only subconscious mind is executing the paltas, the outcome becomes effortless – we call the result tayyari.
Conclusion
The role of paltas is to ensure the bifurcation of conscious and subconscious mind, which enables the conscious mind to create music and subconscious mind to execute it.