phatsolid wrote:
The amazing Zakir Hussain. Tabla is so incredible and so bizarrre. I never knew they were such tonal instruments also. Enjoy and have a great weekend everyone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUM8K0-Wkc&feature=related - D.
I was once offered lessons in trade for driving lessons in a turquoise Chevy Nova. Him, a Sikh in a turban and white robes, me with a bright red bandana, bright red outfit and a makeshift beard, loose on the streets of St. Louis. He was a gas on, brake on, gas on, brake on, kind of driver. Me, hanging on like a bronco buster, encouraging smoothness and never getting it. Why the police allowed us to jerk our way down Lindell Blvd, I don't know.
Oh, yeah, the tabla. You can't play it. You can't even get a proper sound out of it - at least I could not - without a great deal of practice, which I was surely unwilling to put in. There was a parallel between his driving and my drumming.
I don't think all of those tones in the video are all coming from the tabla. Tabla have pitches which are adjustable both by tensioning and by pressure from the hand, but they are mostly percussive and do not sound like open bells or sitars or... a banjo?
Have a good weekend yourself, David!
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