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Here you will find MP3 audio tracks of the Tabla from India. Click on the link to play the track to share with your class now, or right click on the link and choose "save as" to save the track to your own computer and share with your class later.





      Tabla from India
Abhiman Kaushal demonstrates five basic tabla rhythms and variations on those rhythms, the same rhythms presented in the exercises except here played with improvisations (recorded live at UCLA, performed by Abhiman Kaushal and recorded on June 29, 2005 by David Martinelli)
           
 
      Tal Tintal            
 
      Tal Jhaptal            
 
      Tal Dadra            
 
      Tal Dipchandi            
 
      Tal Rupak            
 
      Tabla from India "Lesson Forty-Two - Rela" represents the three speeds of a tabla rhythm, slow, medium and fast (from a CD titled "Forty-Two Lessons on Tabla" with Ustad Keramatullah Kahn playing tabla, on Smithsonian Folkways FM 8369, track 6)            
 
      Tabla Tarang and Tabla from India "Raag Deen Todi" provides the sound of the tabla tarang melodic set of tablas which are joined by tabla near the end of the track (from a CD titled Tabla Tarang - Melody on Drums, with Pandit Kamalesh Maitra - tabla tarang and Trilok Gurtu - tabla, on Smithsonian Folkways, SF40436 track 7)            
 

For a PDF of the Audio Content Notes for Roots of Rhythms lessons 11 through 15, click here.

For more Resources—CDs, DVDs, and websites—for each instrument, click here.

 

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