Break from rhythm structure; solo instrumental improvisation within a piece of music.

Melodic improvisation by a solo instrument, often a keyboard or .

an improvised piece of music or dance that has no rhythm

(tock SEEM) – (Arabic) meaning "division". Refers to the section of music where a specific instrument is playing a solo.

The snaky slow part of the music or the dance. The term actually means "improvisation."

Taqsim is the term of the first movement in Islamic music, which is a melodic improvisation style that could be metric or non-metric. The taqsim is usually performed by a solo voice or on a solo instrument yet sometimes the soloist can be backed by a percussionist or an instrumentalist playing a drone on the tonic of the maqam.