Tabla.. an amazing musical instrument!

I have been listening to the beats of this amazing, tremendous and magical musical instrument since my childhood... just listened to it.. never tried my hands on.. that is because of my father.. he plays so well ki i just love listening to it.. i always feared of playing tabla in his presence, i couldn't ever dare to do so.. so whenever he wasn't there.. i did some dham-dham!! dhad-dhad!!.. i don't know what stopped me learning tabla from him.. perhaps the fear of failure!.. well that's a different thing.. let's talk about tabla.. ya i just love the sound of "Thaap"(the beat).. there are lots of "Taals" in tabla.. like "do taal", "teen taal"... love specially "tirkit", "na-dhin-dhin-na".. amazing stuff!

you can get some more info about tabla and its taal from here...
http://chandrakantha.com/tablasite/bsicbols.htm


whenever someone talks about tabla, a very familiar face comes into our mind.. very curly, dense black hair.. shaking his head.. as if he is born to beat the leather!..waah ustaad waah!!.. yes I am talking Ustad Zaakir Hussain... son of great tabla player ustad allarakha khan.. watch this.. father-son duo, playing together..

Recently i came to know about one more tabla player.. while searching for tabla video on youtube.. i saw this man playing tabla.. i felt amazed!! then i googled to know more about him.. and i found that he is a British Indian.. he worked with A R Rehman.. and played tabla for great musicians.. he is Talvin Singh.. he played tabla for the famous "Buddha Bar" album..

and my favorite one is.. i just love this beat..

here he played the spirit of mumbai..

and here it goes the very famous "Bombay Theme", he played with A. R. Rehman..