Even though it's been 4 years since I left it for studies as parents said, i am planning to restart learning it. It's always so soothing to listen to the bol, the sound of tabla and the harmonium in the background. It reminded me of my days with my Guruji. Looking forward to other videos sir. Great work you did here
I am planning to restart learning mridangam ( a form of South Indian musical instrument played in Carnatic music ) after 23 years, till 1999 I learned for 5 years, couldn't continue later but still I remember many lessons, so music once learned it remains in our mind forever
Nearly one year ago I commenced the learning of tabla. After 2 months, lack of determinations put me aside from tabla. Bunch of repentance throw me here. I am pouring bit of confidence after watching & following you. Lots of help I need from you in the upcoming videos. Thank you very much & lots of love. Pranaam Guruji
Excellent performance for people who are taking the long journey to learn this fantastic music instrument, some ignorant dislike this video don’t why 🙏
You may get umpteen number of Tabla tutorials and lessons in the TH-cam and most of them will help you to understand and learn many things about this marvelous instrument. But if someone wants to learn it in a very systematic and organized manner, understanding all the intricacies, come here. This is the one and only one available in TH-cam. My prostrations to your feet Sir. You are my guru last one year.
best Tabla guide in TH-cam for starter. good that someone at least given enough time for making all the variations. PDFs are well formatted. Thanks Tabaliya
You are most welcome. Glad you liked the lessons. There is more coming. The pdfs will also be revised sometime soon, to have better page boundaries (so that the variations are not split across two pages). The notes are also laid out in the video - before each variation or theme I have the slide with the notes and the color scheme showing the grouping of phrases as I would want you to see them. Pavan
You are most welcome. All I ask in return is that you spread the word among fellow Tabla enthusiasts and learners so that more people can benefit from these. Pavan
Bless me sir in my journey of learning. This is my first year in tabla. I had begun group classes here in city but left few months back due to work and restarted playing during lockdown without your blessing in form of the videos. They are amazing. I feel that I am sitting in front of you. Please continue to bless us like this
Pavan Sir, You are one of the god sent guru for sharing knowledge among tabla enthusiasts, learners and listeners. I found a universal tabla guru in you. Best regards
I am a begginner student and it's easy to understand your method. I would like to thank you your brilliant work. Congratulations from Porto Alegre, Brazil.
I am learning through your lessons. It is very much systematic and unique. Now very eager to see your lessons 42 on wards up to 50 though have not learned all of the rest. Sir your Chanel found to be the best among anything available on net. Thanks with congratulations.
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you are enjoying the lessons. Happy learning. Please spread the word among Tabla enthusiasts. That's the only thing I ask in return.
Sir, your way of teaching is very simple and helpful to new people. Thanks very much for your efforts in sharing your knowledges. May God bless you in a great measure 🙏
Great job guruji...the best channel I have ever found in TH-cam fir tabla Lesson.special your systematic teaching with lehra make the lesson really comprehensive including tihai give us a exhaustive lesson . I have been searching this for last six months. Thanks guruji.
Dear Sir. I thank you so much for your crystal clear lesson. I start to learn alone tabla and after searching a lot in TH-cam I'm coming back to your video as I consider the best by far among all I've seen. Tabla is hard to learn even if learned other instrument before like for me the violin. Tabla drums are totally a new world of music for me, with everything new. This is a fascinating world I must say and your video are best starter to me. God bless you and keep safe please. My respects from France.
Thank you sir so much for the teaching tabla your a great teacher I am so glad to have in TH-cam now again thank you so much God bless you and your family.
This is so sad that you stopped giving each of your(edit) lessons, Guruji. I belong to a not so rich family so I can't afford to pay for my tabla classes. My friend used to play tabla and when he was about yo buy a new one, I asked him for the old one and he gave it to me, and started taking classes from the internet. It would be really helpful if you please continue your classes again on TH-cam, I'll be really really grateful to you Guruji , even I am now because I got to learn so much from all of your videos 🙏🏻 Dandwat Pranaam Guruji 🙏🏻
Dear sir , I am really glad to find your useful lessons . I am the beginner of Tabla i will use these lessons . Special thank for your efforts . Ostaad Jee Farhad from Holland
Thank you very much for the kind words. Please do spread the word among other tabla enthusiasts and learners. If you work on the lessons in the prescribed sequence you will do very well. Just work though one completely before moving on to the next. These days most students are impatient and want to jump to the relas that they can play fast. I hope you don't fall into that trap. Happy learning. Pavan
Salaam Farhad Bhai - I see that you’re interested to learn in a proper way to playing Tabla’s. I am offering online tabla lessons to beginners level students to advanced level students, please feel free to contact me on my email: Khantabla16@gmail.com
I ordered some vegan tabla which I am waiting on. I live in Ireland, I play bass guitar but not percussion so this will be a new adventure for me. I will be a complete beginner in tabla but I am looking forward very much to learning thanks in advance for the video lesson it seems very comprehensive! :)
Thanks for the kind words. Before you dive into the first lesson (Kayda 1) I suggest you look into basic sound production for the basic bol set (Na/Ta, Tin, Ga/Ge, Ka,Ke, Dha, Dhin and Ti Te). Unless of course, you have already learnt those. There are many lessons on TH-cam made by others. Happy learning.
@@tabaliya thanks for the reply! No I haven't learned anything yet I'll look into what you have suggested as soon as my tabla set arrives! Thanks again =)
@@MrZombieplague May I ask where you are getting your vegan tabla set from? The last I heard, those didn't sound great - had a tinny sound. There was a company called Karunya or something.
@@tabaliya I'm a little disheartened to hear that.. Kurunya music's is actually where I ordered from. It was about a third of the price of a regular tabla and as I am vegan I don't think I could bring myself to use a traditional hide made tabla. I live in Ireland and do not know if it would be possible to find someone here to give me 1 to 1 lessons but I will try!
Thank you sir for your guidance and demo. I started learning from my mother's kitchen on grocery boxes. Later on they gifted me a tabla when I was in 9th. So great of you to tell us finger positions. Can you pls teach how to play tabla using two fingers. And if that was an essential part of learning tabla.
Great lesson, great video. I was able to learn the whole kayda through this video. Great quality stuff as compared to other videos on TH-cam, you dont get such detailed explanation.
Kydas are great, I am familiar with Dadra, Kherwa, Teen Tal and Rupak boles. It will be great if there is an indication of each Kydas relationship with boles.... Or perhaps you have different strategy how to utilize these Kydas. If you do please elaborate on how to best use of these kydas. Again Thank you for your efforts and dedication.
The accompanying notes for each Kayda provide that as also the slide before each lessons component (Theme, Variation and Tihaai) provides the notes in a spreadsheet form laying out the timing relationship of the bols to the underlying Teen Taal movement. Did you miss this somehow? Pavan
Dear Dr. Pavan, first of all I would like to thank you heartfully for the precious Tabla knowledge you are sharing with us. I live in Hamburg / Germany, unfortunately we do not have a single proper Tabla teacher here. So I try to learn on my own with your lessons. Can you please explain us/me following: 1. Is it a "must" to memorize the theme of the Kayda and all Prakars of the Kayda? Or do some player read from a sheet when they perform the Kayda in front of the audience? (ok, maybe this is a silly question :-)) 2. Which is the traditional way / scheme for playing a Kayda? How many cycles of the Theka should be played before the Theme? How many times should be played the Theme after Theka? How many times should be played a Prakar? What about one cycle of Theka between the Prakars? 3. Could please make a video to show us how the whole Kayda has to be played? It would be great to know Thanks very much in advance
You are most welcome. I'm glad you find the lessons useful for your learning. I'm happy to answer your questions: 1. Since the Kayda is developed out of the Theme, so yes, the Theme must be internalized. The variations emerge out of the theme. So I wouldn't say "memorized" as much as "internalized" should be the objective. Each theme is like the outline of a story that establishes the main plot; the subplot unfolds the way you want it. Kaydas are improvised in practice, but for the sake of learning, we lay down one particular sequence in a manner that makes sense and also makes it easy to learn. But once you get a hold of the key ideas you are encouraged to develop your own variations. 2. If you are a beginner, I would suggest the following (just to get you started - there are no hard rules about this): Play the Theka a few times, say 4-6 times, to establish the pulse and the gait of the Taal Play the Kayda in single tempo (or whatever the introductory tempo you choose - could be double, depending on the Kayda and tempo) Then double the tempo (or quadruple, if your introductory tempo was double) and play the theme two times, to establish the composition in the listener's mind Then roll through the variations - if they are short (like half cycle or one cycle), play them twice, else play once Once you come to the end you have the choice of either repeating the theme or launch into the Tihaai directly Once the Tihaai is done, settle back into the Theka once again 3. I decided not to do that in order to save a little time - the lessons had already become too long. But maybe I can create one sometime later with one sample Kayda execution from beginning to the end to show the whole thing. But this may have to wait a while since I have many more lessons to complete in the 50 Lessons series. Once that is done, I'll get to all the numerous requests that I have gotten over the last couple of months from students all over the world. In the meantime, enjoy your journey with the Tabla. Feel free to shoot me questions. Pavan
More to question 1: In Indian music, we do not keep a "sheet" to read and play from it. Rather, the entire music is played without looking at any reference notes. With practice you will get there too. Pavan
Thank you, although I think there are many other wonderful video lessons out there. Take advantage of everything you have out there. Happy learning. Pavan
Guruji apka reply mere liye bahut parshad hai. Apne kimti samay nikalke mere sandesh ko padha. Apka sandesh mere liye Bhagwan ka sandesh ke barabar hau. Me bahut prabhavit hua hu.
Excellent teaching sir , I am following you to learn Tabla .I am Dr Madhusoodan Jagirdar a senior consultant anesthesiologist Cloudnine Malleswaram Bengaluru .
@@tabaliya sir. I am getting stuck with TeRaKet ,unable to get the speed with that. I practice TiReKeT with three fingers index middle and ring fingers .Please advise
@@drcmadhu You will get there with practice. I suggest you switch to Delhi TiReKiTe (Middle finger for the Ti and last two fingers for the Te). See later lessons to see how Delhi TiReKiTe is played. This will allow for faster speeds.
Thanks for your comments. Regretfully, I didn't do one exclusively focusing on the basic bols since I laid out the assumption in my very first lesson that these lessons are geared towards those who have had a basic grounding in the basic bols of Tabla. If you are interested there are other Tabla videos on TH-cam and elsewhere which cover the basic sound production. I would recommend Pt. Sadanand Naimpally's tabla videos, in particular his very first one where he covers all the bols of Tabla. Where and when possible, for each lesson I have briefly covered the bols used in that particular Kayda or other composition. Hope that helps. Pavan
@@poojagoswami74 Absolutely. I have noted down all the kayda variations from Lesson 1 in my notebook in my local language. Onto the practice now. I have got the idea of other Taals such as Kehrava and Dadra since I was learning them last year. However, got more interested in Teentaal kaydas. Hence started to follow your videos.
Sir since you have taken so much effort to produce these detailed lessons it is my humble request to please have a lesson 0 to set up a beginner with basic bols. It is impossible for a lot of people who want to learn to find or afford a personal teacher. Your videos will be of great service.
Someday perhaps. I'm trying hard to first publish the 50 Lessons. There are plenty of other videos showing basic bols production. Thanks for the suggestion though. I'll look into it.
Thank you for this lesson! I highly appreciate it. Does anybody understand the main difference between ta and na? That's the only part that I'm confused about.
Discovered these treasure lessons - amazing job - a great value for learners like me ! You do mention these are reference for your students but a bunch of us out there are learning ‘ekalavyan’ style …wonder if you can pass on some thoughts on how to memorize these numerous variations, how to pick up speed (with time yes, how long ;-) - are these variations more of a practice thing? While on lesson 4, lesson 2 fades away! Any recommended way to reinforce - sorry many questions !
It is made by NAGMA - you can search it online. There are now apps for iPhone and Android phones that deliver more realistic sound. You may want to look at an app called Lehara Studio Pro - it costs a bit but worth it. Disclaimer: I have no connection to the business - just a happy user of the app, that's all. Pavan
Great lessons Guruji. But I leanrt basics as Dha dha tete Dha Dha tuna as I am learning it from one Chitrank Pant, a desciple of Pt. Kumar Bose, an Indian nation talent scholar. One may utilize his potential for Benaras gharana, a great exponent lives in Dehradun.
Both are correct and good to learn as your first Kayda. All depends on the teacher. Continue your learning. Looks like you have found a good teacher. Good for you.
Even though it's been 4 years since I left it for studies as parents said, i am planning to restart learning it. It's always so soothing to listen to the bol, the sound of tabla and the harmonium in the background. It reminded me of my days with my Guruji. Looking forward to other videos sir. Great work you did here
Thanks for the note and happy learning/
I myself started again which i left 11 years ago
Sainath
I am planning to restart learning mridangam ( a form of South Indian musical instrument played in Carnatic music ) after 23 years, till 1999 I learned for 5 years, couldn't continue later but still I remember many lessons, so music once learned it remains in our mind forever
All the best.
Nearly one year ago I commenced the learning of tabla. After 2 months, lack of determinations put me aside from tabla. Bunch of repentance throw me here. I am pouring bit of confidence after watching & following you. Lots of help I need from you in the upcoming videos. Thank you very much & lots of love. Pranaam Guruji
Glad these lessons are useful. Happy learning. Cheers.
@@tabaliya cheers.
Excellent performance for people who are taking the long journey to learn this
fantastic music instrument, some ignorant dislike this video don’t why 🙏
Thanks. Happy learning.
You may get umpteen number of Tabla tutorials and lessons in the TH-cam and most of them will help you to understand and learn many things about this marvelous instrument.
But if someone wants to learn it in a very systematic and organized manner, understanding all the intricacies, come here. This is the one and only one available in TH-cam. My prostrations to your feet Sir. You are my guru last one year.
You are most welcome. Thanks for the kind words. Glad you find these lessons useful.
best Tabla guide in TH-cam for starter. good that someone at least given enough time for making all the variations. PDFs are well formatted. Thanks Tabaliya
You are most welcome. Glad you liked the lessons. There is more coming. The pdfs will also be revised sometime soon, to have better page boundaries (so that the variations are not split across two pages).
The notes are also laid out in the video - before each variation or theme I have the slide with the notes and the color scheme showing the grouping of phrases as I would want you to see them.
Pavan
tabaliya like the way of saying it would p
How can we ever thank you enough for all you've done.. I thank you from the bottom of my heart..
You are most welcome. All I ask in return is that you spread the word among fellow Tabla enthusiasts and learners so that more people can benefit from these.
Pavan
This is how you keep a culture alive and healthy!!! Thank you sir.
Thanks so much for your kind words.
Bless me sir in my journey of learning. This is my first year in tabla. I had begun group classes here in city but left few months back due to work and restarted playing during lockdown without your blessing in form of the videos. They are amazing. I feel that I am sitting in front of you. Please continue to bless us like this
Plz subscribe to my channel🙏
Thanks for the kind words. Happy learning.
You are a very good teacher, a real guru. Thanks for your effort with such a simplicity.
You are most welcome
Pavan Sir,
You are one of the god sent guru for sharing knowledge among tabla enthusiasts, learners and listeners. I found a universal tabla guru in you.
Best regards
Thanks for the kind words. Happy learning.
I am a begginner student and it's easy to understand your method. I would like to thank you your brilliant work. Congratulations from Porto Alegre, Brazil.
You are most welcome. Glad you find the lessons useful. Cheers.
Pavan
Your efforts are to be appreciated. A great service for those who have no opportunities or facilities to learn. Bravo!!!
You are most welcome. Glad you liked the lessons.
Sir namaste .... Please release one book on tabla lessens
Sir You have taken lot of trouble in producing this exccellant classes for beginners .Hats off to you way if simple teachings and practice lesson
Thank you for the kind words. Glad these lessons are useful for you.
Sir,thank you very much for these precious lessons. You make it so clear and easy to understand for beginners like me.
Glad you like the lessons. Happy learning.
Most respected sir
Please tell me the lesson of 7beat qaeda and tihae
@@farahamirscuttingandsewing7332 Sorry this series is entirely for Teen Taal. Maybe in the future.
I am learning through your lessons. It is very much systematic and unique. Now very eager to see your lessons 42 on wards up to 50 though have not learned all of the rest. Sir your Chanel found to be the best among anything available on net. Thanks with congratulations.
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you are enjoying the lessons. Happy learning. Please spread the word among Tabla enthusiasts. That's the only thing I ask in return.
Amazing, exactly what a beginner like me is looking for. Thank you for the great effort in create these lessons.
Glad it was helpful!
Sir, your way of teaching is very simple and helpful to new people. Thanks very much for your efforts in sharing your knowledges. May God bless you in a great measure 🙏
Thanks and welcome. Happy learning.
Great job guruji...the best channel I have ever found in TH-cam fir tabla Lesson.special your systematic teaching with lehra make the lesson really comprehensive including tihai give us a exhaustive lesson . I have been searching this for last six months. Thanks guruji.
You're most welcome. Glad you find the lessons useful. Happy learning.
most detailed tabla lessons.thanks!
You are welcome. Glad you liked them. Lots more coming.
Pavan
Dear Sir. I thank you so much for your crystal clear lesson. I start to learn alone tabla and after searching a lot in TH-cam I'm coming back to your video as I consider the best by far among all I've seen. Tabla is hard to learn even if learned other instrument before like for me the violin. Tabla drums are totally a new world of music for me, with everything new. This is a fascinating world I must say and your video are best starter to me. God bless you and keep safe please. My respects from France.
Thanks for the kind words. Glad you find the lessons useful.
Sir you are great........
Your Tabla lessons are very helping to learn tabla.......I am learning ........
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Keep it up. all the best.
Your teaching methord is very systematic, Love it! Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work, God Bless.
Thanks much.
Great teaching..best on TH-cam.
Glad you think so! Thanks.
Great learning.....so many good variations...excellent for long practice...Thank You
You're very welcome!
I just restarted learning Tabla. Was looking for some initial lessons to get myself started. Thank you very much. Easier to follow and remember 🙏🙏
Thx. Happy learning. All the best. Glad you like the lessons. Please spread the word.
@@tabaliya 🙏
Thank you sir so much for the teaching tabla your a great teacher I am so glad to have in TH-cam now again thank you so much God bless you and your family.
You are most welcome. Glad you liked my lessons. Thanks for the comments.
Pavan
Excellent guidance sir. I did learn Tabla many years back but now I am revisiting lessons with your guidance here. Thanks a lot sir!!!
Thanks. Glad you find the lessons useful.
wow prabhuji your lessons are so neat and easy to understand, thank you very much for this seva you are doing
You are most welcome. Glad you find my lessons useful.
Pavan
This is so sad that you stopped giving each of your(edit) lessons, Guruji. I belong to a not so rich family so I can't afford to pay for my tabla classes. My friend used to play tabla and when he was about yo buy a new one, I asked him for the old one and he gave it to me, and started taking classes from the internet.
It would be really helpful if you please continue your classes again on TH-cam, I'll be really really grateful to you Guruji , even I am now because I got to learn so much from all of your videos 🙏🏻
Dandwat Pranaam Guruji 🙏🏻
More lessons are coming. My student who edits and annotated them has been busy.
You are right.We all'taking lesson thanks
Sir you are 'The Best' teacher and way of teaching is very simple,understand a me d feel very happy to learn
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the lesson.
Very very very useful sir. I stopped learning in 2007. With this videos again started learning. Thank you Sir.
All the best.
Fantastic way of teaching
No one can teach better than you
It's my pleasure
really superb lessons.... very structured... thanks a lot ...
Thank you very much. Glad you liked them. There's more coming.
Pavan
Thank U Sir, Excellent work you have done, Please continue... Really Valuable
You are welcome.
Dear sir ,
I am really glad to find your useful lessons .
I am the beginner of Tabla i will use these lessons .
Special thank for your efforts .
Ostaad Jee
Farhad from Holland
Thank you very much for the kind words. Please do spread the word among other tabla enthusiasts and learners. If you work on the lessons in the prescribed sequence you will do very well. Just work though one completely before moving on to the next. These days most students are impatient and want to jump to the relas that they can play fast. I hope you don't fall into that trap.
Happy learning.
Pavan
Salaam Farhad Bhai - I see that you’re interested to learn in a proper way to playing Tabla’s. I am offering online tabla lessons to beginners level students to advanced level students, please feel free to contact me on my email: Khantabla16@gmail.com
always great lessons!
Thanks.
I ordered some vegan tabla which I am waiting on. I live in Ireland, I play bass guitar but not percussion so this will be a new adventure for me. I will be a complete beginner in tabla but I am looking forward very much to learning thanks in advance for the video lesson it seems very comprehensive! :)
Thanks for the kind words. Before you dive into the first lesson (Kayda 1) I suggest you look into basic sound production for the basic bol set (Na/Ta, Tin, Ga/Ge, Ka,Ke, Dha, Dhin and Ti Te). Unless of course, you have already learnt those. There are many lessons on TH-cam made by others. Happy learning.
@@tabaliya thanks for the reply! No I haven't learned anything yet I'll look into what you have suggested as soon as my tabla set arrives! Thanks again =)
@@MrZombieplague May I ask where you are getting your vegan tabla set from? The last I heard, those didn't sound great - had a tinny sound. There was a company called Karunya or something.
Depending on where you live, I strongly suggest you get a Guru to guide you in the first lessons. it is very important.
@@tabaliya I'm a little disheartened to hear that.. Kurunya music's is actually where I ordered from. It was about a third of the price of a regular tabla and as I am vegan I don't think I could bring myself to use a traditional hide made tabla.
I live in Ireland and do not know if it would be possible to find someone here to give me 1 to 1 lessons but I will try!
Love very much your way of teaching!!! Thank you
Thanks and welcome. Happy Learning.
Thank you sir for your guidance and demo. I started learning from my mother's kitchen on grocery boxes. Later on they gifted me a tabla when I was in 9th. So great of you to tell us finger positions. Can you pls teach how to play tabla using two fingers. And if that was an essential part of learning tabla.
Glad you find the lessons useful.
Easy to learn & very helpful !
Thanks,
Your kaydas are really beautiful and helpful for practice and riyaaj 🙏🙏
Thanks a lot 😊
Great lesson! I think I need to watch it and practice many times. Thanks you so much
You're welcome.
Great lesson, great video. I was able to learn the whole kayda through this video.
Great quality stuff as compared to other videos on TH-cam, you dont get such detailed explanation.
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you found the lesson useful. Happy learning. Cheers.
Very Beautiful composition sounds really awesome while playing in fast tempo. I really appreciate your efforts Sirji. Kya baat hai 🙌
Thank you very much for your kind comments. Glad you like the lessons.
Pavan
Sir ur heartly man sir ur giving free lesson thak u so much sir iwill become ur student sir❤️
It's my pleasure
Awesome sir....Great opportunity you provided us...very useful...that too free of cost ... I ll make best utilize of it..
All the best
I learned tabla before 2 years but then after I forget all the bol of tabla
Then I found this video and its help me to recall all the bol of tabla
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Glad you liked it. Happy learning.
Sir u are the best....need your blessings
All the best
Thank you very much for your excellent contribution to Tabla learning.
You're welcome. I'll be posting 4 more relas and then 2 peshkars next.
Pavan
Thanks I am looking forward to it.
Kydas are great, I am familiar with Dadra, Kherwa, Teen Tal and Rupak boles. It will be great if there is an indication of each Kydas relationship with boles.... Or perhaps you have different strategy how to utilize these Kydas. If you do please elaborate on how to best use of these kydas. Again Thank you for your efforts and dedication.
The accompanying notes for each Kayda provide that as also the slide before each lessons component (Theme, Variation and Tihaai) provides the notes in a spreadsheet form laying out the timing relationship of the bols to the underlying Teen Taal movement. Did you miss this somehow?
Pavan
Thanks for the reply. I can't seem to find the link to download the notes for each Kayda.
I love these. Thanks soo much
Thanks.
❤@@tabaliya
I have seen all your vedios they are excellent
Thank you. Glad you liked them. More coming.
I have started learning and practicing since last few days , Sir , my pranaam to you .Lets see how much I can learn .
All the best
Very useful tutorials. Pronam sir. 🙏🙏
Thanks and welcome
Very good lessons. Thank you Sir. Requesting you to give lessons on various thekas played for old bollywood songs....
Will upload soon
@@tabaliya Ok. Thank you Sir.
thanks for uploading from Canada!
You are welcome.
Dear Dr. Pavan, first of all I would like to thank you heartfully for the precious Tabla knowledge you are sharing with us. I live in Hamburg / Germany, unfortunately we do not have a single proper Tabla teacher here. So I try to learn on my own with your lessons. Can you please explain us/me following:
1. Is it a "must" to memorize the theme of the Kayda and all Prakars of the Kayda? Or do some player read from a sheet when they perform the Kayda in front of the audience? (ok, maybe this is a silly question :-))
2. Which is the traditional way / scheme for playing a Kayda? How many cycles of the Theka should be played before the Theme? How many times should be played the Theme after Theka? How many times should be played a Prakar? What about one cycle of Theka between the Prakars?
3. Could please make a video to show us how the whole Kayda has to be played?
It would be great to know
Thanks very much in advance
You are most welcome. I'm glad you find the lessons useful for your learning. I'm happy to answer your questions:
1. Since the Kayda is developed out of the Theme, so yes, the Theme must be internalized. The variations emerge out of the theme. So I wouldn't say "memorized" as much as "internalized" should be the objective. Each theme is like the outline of a story that establishes the main plot; the subplot unfolds the way you want it. Kaydas are improvised in practice, but for the sake of learning, we lay down one particular sequence in a manner that makes sense and also makes it easy to learn. But once you get a hold of the key ideas you are encouraged to develop your own variations.
2. If you are a beginner, I would suggest the following (just to get you started - there are no hard rules about this):
Play the Theka a few times, say 4-6 times, to establish the pulse and the gait of the Taal
Play the Kayda in single tempo (or whatever the introductory tempo you choose - could be double, depending on the Kayda and tempo)
Then double the tempo (or quadruple, if your introductory tempo was double) and play the theme two times, to establish the composition in the listener's mind
Then roll through the variations - if they are short (like half cycle or one cycle), play them twice, else play once
Once you come to the end you have the choice of either repeating the theme or launch into the Tihaai directly
Once the Tihaai is done, settle back into the Theka once again
3. I decided not to do that in order to save a little time - the lessons had already become too long. But maybe I can create one sometime later with one sample Kayda execution from beginning to the end to show the whole thing. But this may have to wait a while since I have many more lessons to complete in the 50 Lessons series. Once that is done, I'll get to all the numerous requests that I have gotten over the last couple of months from students all over the world.
In the meantime, enjoy your journey with the Tabla. Feel free to shoot me questions.
Pavan
More to question 1:
In Indian music, we do not keep a "sheet" to read and play from it. Rather, the entire music is played without looking at any reference notes. With practice you will get there too.
Pavan
This is best class for tabla thx
Thank you, although I think there are many other wonderful video lessons out there. Take advantage of everything you have out there. Happy learning.
Pavan
Wow! Your are now my Ustad Pavan ji! Amazing lessons!
Thanks. Glad you find the lessons useful.
Guruji apka reply mere liye bahut parshad hai. Apne kimti samay nikalke mere sandesh ko padha. Apka sandesh mere liye Bhagwan ka sandesh ke barabar hau. Me bahut prabhavit hua hu.
You are welcome. Cheers.
Guru jii thnx alot 🙏🏻🙏🏻 bahut acha see explain Kiya hai apne
Thx and most welcome.
Excellent teaching sir , I am following you to learn Tabla .I am Dr Madhusoodan Jagirdar a senior consultant anesthesiologist Cloudnine Malleswaram Bengaluru .
Thanks very much for your comments. I'm glad these lessons are useful for your learning. Keep practicing and happy learning. More are coming.
Pavan
@@tabaliya sir. I am getting stuck with TeRaKet ,unable to get the speed with that.
I practice TiReKeT with three fingers index middle and ring fingers .Please advise
@@drcmadhu You will get there with practice. I suggest you switch to Delhi TiReKiTe (Middle finger for the Ti and last two fingers for the Te). See later lessons to see how Delhi TiReKiTe is played. This will allow for faster speeds.
Wonderful Sir.....please if you can make a lesson on taal Rupak,it's variations,kayadas....will be great help
Will try in a future series.
Thank you Sir for the great compilation. I am at the very beginner stage. Can you please guide me to the lessons to the Bols.
Thanks for your comments. Regretfully, I didn't do one exclusively focusing on the basic bols since I laid out the assumption in my very first lesson that these lessons are geared towards those who have had a basic grounding in the basic bols of Tabla. If you are interested there are other Tabla videos on TH-cam and elsewhere which cover the basic sound production. I would recommend Pt. Sadanand Naimpally's tabla videos, in particular his very first one where he covers all the bols of Tabla.
Where and when possible, for each lesson I have briefly covered the bols used in that particular Kayda or other composition. Hope that helps.
Pavan
Guruji pranam.... excellent lesson ❤ 👍❤
Thx
Hai Povan sir,Happy to attend your khayda session 🙏All the best and waiting for many more 🙏,😄
Thanks. There are 47 lessons posted already.
@@tabaliya 🙏great work🤝
Great Great Great lessons. I see such effective Tabla lesson first.
Very clear than direct/contact class. I like it.
Thanks a lot and God bless you
Thanks. Glad you find the lessons useful.
Plz subscribe to my channel🙏
Very good work thankuuu very muchhh
Thanks and welcome.
You are an exceptional teacher sir. Pranam
Thanks for the kind words. Hope you find the trest of the lessons useful too.
@@poojagoswami74 Absolutely. I have noted down all the kayda variations from Lesson 1 in my notebook in my local language. Onto the practice now. I have got the idea of other Taals such as Kehrava and Dadra since I was learning them last year. However, got more interested in Teentaal kaydas. Hence started to follow your videos.
आपके जैसा कोई नही है
You can download the pdf of the entire lesson by clicking on SHOW MORE below the video. You will see a link to download the lesson notes.
You are too kind. But there are several other very good teachers on TH-cam.
Absolutely amazing sir
Thank you.
🙏
Sainath
Sir since you have taken so much effort to produce these detailed lessons it is my humble request to please have a lesson 0 to set up a beginner with basic bols. It is impossible for a lot of people who want to learn to find or afford a personal teacher. Your videos will be of great service.
Someday perhaps. I'm trying hard to first publish the 50 Lessons. There are plenty of other videos showing basic bols production. Thanks for the suggestion though. I'll look into it.
@@tabaliyathank you for all your hard work.
it was very useful sir... expecting more lessons from you... waiting!
Yes, more coming. The next lesson is almost ready. Lesson 24 is a Tisra Jati Rela for Teen Taal.
Pavan
fantastic sir
Thanks a lot.
Waah ustad ji
Thanks.
Thank you for this lesson! I highly appreciate it. Does anybody understand the main difference between ta and na? That's the only part that I'm confused about.
At this stage it is not important.
Thanks for Lesson one Guriji !
Welcome!
Great lesson❤
Thank you! 😃
Thanks a lot sir, excellant lessons
MOst welcome.
Excellent explanation 👌
thx
Thank you so much I found my lessons back.
Happy learning. All the best.
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Discovered these treasure lessons - amazing job - a great value for learners like me ! You do mention these are reference for your students but a bunch of us out there are learning ‘ekalavyan’ style …wonder if you can pass on some thoughts on how to memorize these numerous variations, how to pick up speed (with time yes, how long ;-) - are these variations more of a practice thing? While on lesson 4, lesson 2 fades away! Any recommended way to reinforce - sorry many questions !
Thanks for the kind words. Happy learning. please spread the word among Tabla enthusiasts. That's all I ask in return.
The answer to ALL your questions is in two things: 1. practice, practice, practice, and 2. practice slowly, practice slowly and practice slowly.
I'm starting to play tabal
Can I follow your this lesson 1 to 50 for more practice .
Happy learning.
very verywonderful simply teaching thank u very much
You're most welcome. Glad you find the lessons useful.
Pavan
very good lessons
Thank you! 😃
very good lesson's sir. thank you..
Thanks.
Nice..
I am following your leasons
Glad you find them useful.
good classes
Thx.
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Thank U for your explanation and lessons which are wonderful..Please upload more lessons
You are welcome. Lesson 25 is coming soon.
Pavan
Thanks a lot for your teaching.
You are welcome.
Excellent sir
Thank you.
Superb 👍
Thanks
Hare Krsna 🕉Thank you so much 🙏🏻
You're welcome. Happy learning.
Excellent ! Thank you so much !
You are welcome.
THANK YOU.
You're welcome!
Pavan
Awsome sir ji....😊
Welcome.
Thanks for sharing these great lessons!!! I am curious what sort of Lehra box do you use or recommend?
It is made by NAGMA - you can search it online. There are now apps for iPhone and Android phones that deliver more realistic sound. You may want to look at an app called Lehara Studio Pro - it costs a bit but worth it. Disclaimer: I have no connection to the business - just a happy user of the app, that's all.
Pavan
Very nice 👌 Sir, I am learning.
Good to know. happy learning.
sir when are you uploading the next videos.......
waiting for that......
Lesson 23 should be up in the next few days. I have been extremely busy.
Pavan
Thank you so much for this class
You are welcome.
Great lessons Guruji. But I leanrt basics as Dha dha tete Dha Dha tuna as I am learning it from one Chitrank Pant, a desciple of Pt. Kumar Bose, an Indian nation talent scholar. One may utilize his potential for Benaras gharana, a great exponent lives in Dehradun.
Both are correct and good to learn as your first Kayda. All depends on the teacher. Continue your learning. Looks like you have found a good teacher. Good for you.
Very nice sir
Thanks and welcome.