Tabla Beat
Tisham Candella
Hi, I was wondering if Bead Buddy could come up with Beats / percussions like The Indian Tabla, Punjabi Dhol and the Arabian Darbuka as some native original Beats. Is there a chance where I can request this to beat buddy ?
Bringing computer production together with Indian music was a great idea. But Laswell's long been a fan of mice, buttons, and knobs... so a live record from a similar group arrived this year with some trepidation.
The 2-CD set Live in San Francisco proves to the world that this unusual combination of East and West very much belongs in the realm of live performance. Before proceeding, a bit about ragas for the uninitiated: there are hundreds, and each one has a core rhythm that every player must respect. This is the tala, which can span time signatures into outer space (as well as the more usual 4/4, used here). Tabla player Zakir Hussain (who's gladly been very active lately in recording lately) takes the lead position in this group, which also includes Ustad Sultan Khan. Khan's message: never neglect the sarangi (a string instrument), which intertwines with the tabla like a snake to network the tala. Interestingly, his vocals often function in much the same way. The rest follows naturally: an extended improvised elaboration of melodic themes, each player pushing the others.
At moments this music is entirely south Asian, and at others it's more American. The concept of Tabla Beat Science is to blend the two sensibilities, in a way that makes them sound like they have been melting together for decades. At the centerand this is crucialis improvisation. This feeling becomes perfectly clear on the second disc when "Gigi" Shibabaw joins Sultan Khan in a vocal interchange that trades American lyrics with devotional vocals, and it works. Now it must be said that Laswell did do some tinkering, but the source material comes through loud and clear. Tablas, sarangi, vocalstogether with synthesizers, electronics, and turntables. The mood throughout the hour and half of Live in San Francisco remains one of elation: gentle, propulsive, and revelatory. It's hard to make that combination work, so hats off to the group. (We could have done with a little less of Laswell's robotic bass; and a better turntablist would have helped, but those flaws are small dots in the big picture.)Track Listing Taaruf; Sacred Channel; Nafeke; Ap Ke Baras; Magnetic Dub; Satellite(Show Me the Worth of the World); Tala Matrix; Trajic; Mangedegna;Devotional Dub.
An accompaniment to live video streams - Kundalini Yoga, Kirtan and Meditation sessions. Contact Jag to purchase full length versions of these beats as a high quality WAV or mp3 file - -alternative-producer.com/contact
The World Music Jam Pack contains around 60 tabla loops as well as an Indian & Middle Eastern drum kit. You can get it together with all the other Jam Packs at Apple's App Store if you buy MainStage for 30 dollars.
Tabla titan Zakir Hussain chairs an Indo-European summit of master musicians on Making Music. The coming together of saxophonist Jan Garbarek, bansuri (flute) player Hariprasad Chaurasia, guitarist John McLaughlin and Hussain represents an East/West fusion that is perhaps still unmatched to this day.
The Asian Underground movement reached its rhythmic zenith on Tala Matrix. Zakir Hussain convened an unholy alliance of tabla talent, which sees Karsh Kale, Talvin Singh and Trilok Gurtu duet with precision programmed bleeps and beats. The collaboration, like the Asian Underground itself, burnt bright and brief, but not before gifting us this blissful record.
if you want to use Beat Box 2 then again drag and drop it on arranger and there are many presets choose any one then if you find any sound near to tabla stop there and look at left side instruments keep the sound of Tabla(I am sure not available) and delete rest by clicking on squares. When done exit and your music will be added on aranger later, save them first as arrangement then export in wave or mp3.
You can import WAV files into BeatBox 2. Apparently, the ONLY way it can be done is to "drag and drop" the WAV file from Windows Explorer directly into an open instrument slot in Beatbox 2.
If you want to learn the details on how to use BeatBox 2 better, click on the question mark button at the top right corner of BeatBox 2. Click on BeatBox 2 Plus in the index on the left side (if it's not already open), then click on any topic at the bottom of the help window on the right under "BeatBox Elements".
BTW...There are tabla rhythms in the TechnoTrance_7 soundpool from MM-10 Deluxe. They are likely also available on the Soundpool 10 DVD. WAV files of single tabla hits could be extracted from these rhythms, or you can probably get wav sample files elsewhere.
Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India on March 9, 1951, Zakir Hussain is a percussionist and tabla player. Hussain began studying music at the age of three with his father, the late Ustad Alla Rakha. He presented his debut performance in Bombay at age 15, providing tabla accompaniment for the master of the Indian santur, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma. Hussain's rise to fame was rapid and sustained, leading to international renown after he traveled to the United States in 1970. His first US public performance came as accompanist to Pandit Ravi Shankar. By age 20 he had become one of the most sought-after tabla accompanists; his virtuosic playing also led to collaborations with popular musicians such as drummer Mickey Hart of The Grateful Dead and guitarist John MacLaughlin, whose Mahavishnu Orchestra had fused elements of Indian classical music with rock and jazz. Hussain stands out for his work in creating fusions of Indian music with Western popular idioms, a practice that has grown into a major stream of activity for a large number of Indian musicians. The first of these efforts to receive widespread recognition was Shakti, a group consisting of MacLaughlin, violinist L. Shankar, and South Indian percussionists Ramnad Raghavan and T.H. "Tikku" Vinayakram. While Shakti retained acoustic instrumentation, Hussain's later fusion projects such as Planet Drum, with Mickey Hart (later reincarnated as the Global Drum Project), Tabla Beat Science, and The Diga Rhythm Band often included electric instruments and synthesizers. Hussain also has provided music for film, including Ismail Merchant's In Custody and The Mystic Masseur and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Little Buddha, and for dance companies, most notably Alonzo King's Lines Ballet. He has received numerous prestigious honors and awards, including the Indo-American Award (1990), the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1991), the Government of India bestowed titles of Padma Shree (1988) and Padma Bhushan (2002), and the NEA National Heritage Fellowship (1999).
In English, tal is most often described as a "rhythmic cycle": a fixed number of beats that goes around and around. But a tal is more complex than a simple cycle. Every tal has a particular structure, including divisions and stress.
For people who want to know more about the theory of tal and Indian meter in general, I recommend Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Metre, and Form in North Indian Rāg Performance by Martin Clayton. This book was the primary source for clarifying many of my own confusions about the theory of tal.
Thekas and their relationship to tal are discussed in the description of Thekha, and in the Tals and Thekas section. However, I suggest that your first learn about the structure of tal in the following sections before moving on to thekas.
Ganesha played the father of this drum, which is called pakhawaj, and it immediately brought to my mind a composition that I learned as a child, which is god knows hundreds of years old, passed on by my guru to me, which actually talks about how, why Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh are keeping beats and singing dhrupad, which is the most ancient form of singing.
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