Raag Bhupali has been used in many popular Bollywood songs. This Raag uses a Pentatonic Major scale. ​The intervals in this scale after the Tonic note are Major 2nd, Major 3rd, Perfect 5th and Major 6th.  The Swars are Sa, Re, Ga, Pa, Dha.

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If you were arranging the chords for a song based on this Raag and only wanted to use the above five notes, your choices would be very limited. You could use a Major, Suspended 2 and Added 6th chords with the Tonic as the root note. So if your Tonic or Sa is A, the scale will have the notes A, B, C#, E, F#, and the you can use A Major (A, C#, E or Sa, Ga. Pa), A Suspended 2 (A, B, E or Sa Re Pa) and A6 (A, C#, E, F# or Sa, Ga, Pa, Dha) to cover the entire song. Musicians will often include other notes while arranging chords to pull in simpler chords, and since this scale is primarily a subset of all 7 notes of the Major (Ionian) scale, you could use the standard I, IV, V combo with A Major, D Major and E Major as well.

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Check out my lesson for Tu Is Tarah to understand this better.

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