Drum Lassi

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:33 pm

Check out this lassie performing indic tabla solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcNmzekgUsQ
The guy playing harmonium for the backgroung nagma (melodic metronome) sound like he's doing a Cajun riff.

Enjoy.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:53 am

A lady once lent me her tabla, but couldn't show me anything about how to play them, so I messed around with them for a while, but had never actually seen them played, only heard them on recordings. I always wanted to learn to make that deep, whooping sound on the bass but could never figure out how it was done. Looks like this lady has all the moves down.

djm

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:24 am

djm, when you play congas and you left elbow the vellum as you strike it with your right hand - well a similar thing is happening when you play the bass of the tabla pair. The curved or cobraed middle or index finger of the left hand strikes the drum while the left hand heel contacts also. Often we use a tad talcum to facilitate sliding of the heel. (Must not get talcum on the black spot though. Bad)

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:16 am

Yes, thx Tal, I can see that method in the clip. This was over 30 years ago when I tried the tabla. I have never seen real congas except in pictures. I will stick, now, with the instruments I already can't play.

djm

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:32 am

Cool, but Mango Lassi is tastier...

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:36 am

I cant figure out if Tal and DJM are related, they look very similar on their avatars!

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:51 am

He has thicker ankles.

djm

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:58 am

flanum wrote:I cant figure out if Tal and DJM are related, they look very similar on their avatars!

I was an owl before he! DJM is a copy owl thassall! Even his claim about not playing instruments well is an aneamic parody of my incomparable modesty ......

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:01 am

Its twue! Its twue!

djm

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:05 pm

talasiga wrote:Check out this lassie performing indic tabla solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcNmzekgUsQ
The guy playing harmonium for the backgroung nagma (melodic metronome) sound like he's doing a Cajun riff.

Enjoy.

Be aware that there are a few stops and starts in this solo. Don't be misled by that. The whole thing is about 8 minutes.

Of course the guy on harmonium isn't playing Cajun but it has that sound. Any comments from persons more familiar with Cajun? Thx.

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:13 pm

djm wrote:A lady once lent me her tabla,

I read this and thought it was the beginning of a limerick - read the second line and discovered the meter was wrong.

Then I realized it was a serious comment.

It really should have been a limerick.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:34 pm

dfernandez77 wrote:It really should have been a limerick.

A lady once lent me her tabla
To beat out a rhythm most fabla
I managed the plink
But the whoop made me think
So I sent them back to where she habla

(yeah, well, at least it rhymes)

djm

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:05 pm

Can't resist. If only I could.

A lady once lent me her tabla.
In percussion I'm only a dabla.
I tasted defeat--
By these drums I was beat,
and was pelted with fruit by the rabla.

(from bad to badder).

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:30 pm

scottielvr wrote:
(from bad to badder).

from ROFL to ROFLMAO

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:40 am

talasiga wrote:The guy playing harmonium for the backgroung nagma (melodic metronome) sound like he's doing a Cajun riff.

It does remind me of Cajun music, but I don't know if I'd call it a "riff".
Is it supposed to be a drone? It really distracts me from her tabla
work... Is there a less distracting instrument that is usually used for
the nagma?

P.S., I was in the British Museum last month, and in a large hall was a
man of Indic decent teaching people to play frame drums. The drums
used were similar to a bodhran, but shallower and with some sort of
shells or bells stringed along the frame to create a "snare" sound. I
kept wanting to call these "tabla", though I know that's not right.
Anybody know what these are called?

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