Play Tabla - Oxford, teaching video 1 of 15, BOL(stroke)

The wonderful sound of tabla is always given life, variation and beauty by the bayan (left hand drum) strokes. Have a look at this and discover the left hand strokes Ghe and Ke  -  an open and a closed stroke. Find out how to play one of the most important phrases for tabla which is TeTe. Discover another phrase called Tira Kita.

Featuring the tabla virtuoso Pandit Sharda Sahai.

I have adapted the original 1998 Play Tabla video into 15 mini-videos, assisted by Conrad Weiskrantz. This mini-video is one of them.

Narrative by: Caroline Howard-Jones, script writer and director of Play Tabla.

Oxford Tabla: http://www.oxfordtabla.org.uk

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