timo wrote:that and the Mridangam, Ghatam, Pakhawaj, mridang, which base pretty much on the same princibles, ragas arent that familiar to me either,(since they belong more to the other insruments, like the Sitar), but its something like that, i'v only studied Tabla for about a year, so i'm no expert on indian music. the tabla has 11 main Thekas
(i think) plus many different "schools" (gharanas), like Lucknow, Dilli(Delhi), Benares, etc.. which all have different styles of playng the thekas, both in style and exicution of the bols, but there are many more Thekas which are rarely used, these are only main thekas from these you get many variations, and then you have Gat's
which are fixed compostions, which are made up, by certain rules not too many people know any more. and then of course theres improvisation(this does not happen in Gat's). so its pretty complex, and i had real trouble (being a percussionist) to play indian music, cause i had to get used to the fact that there are no measures, or anything like that in wester music, where you can count the same way.
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