communication is one of the creative
skills that we all possess it allows us
to become amazing people and interact
with people from all over the world we
can express our ideas our thoughts our
emotions and so much more through our
own unique language and I believe
there’s a language for everything and
it’s when we take the time to learn that
language we can start to really begin
the learning process and I’ve been
playing this amazing instrument called
the tabla right here since the age of
six and to understand the tabla you have
to understand its language and you have
to go all the way back to the ABCs and
the tabla originates from North India
and it consists of two drums and on my
right hand side is the Daiya it’s a
small treble drum and on my left hand
side is the biome it’s the big bass drum
and to learn the alphabet you will have
a certain technique that you use to
perform the tabla and on the right hand
drum you can hear such words such as nun
thin be Tony it ya know
up and on the bass on the buyer you can
hear two prominent sounds gay and get
and the really nice thing about the
buyer is that it can change pitch so I
can go get a gay gay KK KK KK KK KK KK
[Music]
it also produces slide notes get here
gay gay and when you start to progress
with the language you can start to
create words so if I play not and yeah
together creates the word done then and
yeah
creates the word then a couple of other
words dog a dot b v na get na they take
it there they take a target egg in the
DA did you go to the guitar and this
begins the language the real fun starts
to happen when you start to get in
involved and understand the grammar
because that’s where you can start to
build patterns you can start to build
rhythms and we almost become like
rhythmical architects and for example we
can take the two syllables gay gear and
bitter na na and kick it so I can create
something from there
[Applause]
well where do you go from there so the
language has power developing on from
that what I would like to do is just
show you a little demonstration and I
hope nothing else happens and I’ll show
you types of rhythms that from the ABCs
you can start to develop and turn into
rhythmical patterns the powder is
actually helps with sweaty hands and it
stops from squeaking as well so a lot of
people do ask that why do you keep doing
that is it special
[Music]
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you
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[Music]
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and now is a very very small
introduction into the massive world of
tabla and what I really love about the
tabla is if you can spend lifetimes
learning this amazing instrument you can
spend time learning the grammar the
language the different types of patterns
that are all involved and the other
thing that I really love about this
tradition is the history it’s steeped in
it so it’s emigrated from many countries
and the tablet as what you see now has
actually formed into today the other
thing that I love is the tradition that
is attached to it and to learn this
music you have to study with your master
and it’s a master-disciple relationship
and that’s where all the traditional
compositions come from handed down from
generation to generation and I’ve been
lucky enough to study with a great
master today since the age of six as I
said before and he’s taught me a lot
about the instrument not only just the
music but also about life and what I
really love about it is he’s been
teaching me from such a young age but
now he says to me Sat you’ve got books
full of material and all you’re doing is
staying at home and practicing so
literally why he was saying is you
learned this amazing language but you’re
not going out into the world
communicating with people so I took his
advice and I packed my tabla jumped on
the next plane and ended up in South
Korea and in South Korea I worked as an
English teacher for two years and I took
my tablet into the class and I said to
the students exactly what I said here
today I played none and they started to
laugh and I just thought okay you know
that let’s move over to the buyer and I
played again and they started to laugh a
little bit more so I was confused so I
played Giggy Giggy
kkkk here and they erupted with laughter
and I’m just thinking why are you
laughing how about he just played two
notes and I looked at my co-teacher and
he said he was in stitches he said sack
play now one more time so I did and he
said sap na is a Korean word ever hold
on a minute there’s an ancient tradition
master-disciple compositions and like it
can’t be a crooner this is a traditional
tabla language and he said no it’s a
Korean heard so I wasn’t going to argue
with him and he said it means me or I
depending on the context that you use in
and he said Sat play gear one more time
so I did he said go up go down and he
said that word means dog so through my
own music and tradition I was calling
myself a dog so we started to laugh so
the students were in hysterics I was in
hysterics but I learned something new
but that moment something special
happened this gateway opened and allowed
students who’ve never seen the tabla
booth before to ask questions about it
so they were asking questions how fast
can you play can you play with kpop and
I was like other than a minute
what’s k-pop so they were telling me
what Korean music was pop music and so
through that I started to enquire and do
research about the drumming traditions
and they told me about them not only did
they want to know about the instrument
they also wanted to know who I was
he wanted to know about my Indian
culture my British culture as well they
wanted to know if I eat spicy food and
if I ate rice for breakfast and I was
like who eats right for breakfast but
that gateway allowed me to find out and
it was people of Korea so it was an
amazing experience
but through that gateway students told
me about something special they told me
about samulnori and Tamil nori is the
Korean traditional drum ensemble and
samulnori loosely translates into
playing for objects and those four
objects were trumped so I did my
research and I went to the local drum
studio and I happen to bump into some
master musicians and these musicians
were just incredible so I turned up and
I expected four people and I did and
these were four huge people four huge
people with four huge drums and massive
drumsticks and the door closed behind me
and I thought whatever let myself in for
so we sat down and I quickly realized
that these guys couldn’t speak any
English whatsoever and I couldn’t speak
any Korean either so we sat down and I
thought I’m going to struggle here and
so we started to communicate but we
communicated through our music and what
was really nice was that Gateway
appeared again after they had showed me
their rhythmical patterns I showed them
some of the tabla but when we started to
play again that’s when the magic side we
started to create music in such a
brand-new way and that would never have
happened if I never left my comfort zone
at home and for me staying in my comfort
zone in my practice I would never
discover the new technique a new way new
rhythms new patterns and so I was really
really thankful for that so that was an
amazing experience for me but I stayed
in Korea as I said for two years and
it’s got to be one of the most amazing
times of my life it allowed me to meet
new people experience a whole brand new
culture great food too and so much more
but that’s when I first discovered the
true meaning of what travels sick
actually meant it’s not thrown up in a
paper bag we all travel we all travel
whether it’s to our friend’s house for a
cup of tea or we travel you know go to
the airport jump on a plane go 5,000
miles to the other side of the world to
start a new challenge in South Korea and
the words sick that’s the religion that
I belong to that’s the faith that’s the
community I belong to and it is
pronounced that way but it’s also
pronounced Sikh
and with in Sikhism there are so many
wonderful teachings and philosophies but
the one that I started to really
understand was the one of oneness we
became one as humankind we connected
whether it is people in the class and
the students that the master musicians
the taxi drivers the people in the
supermarkets
they all wanted to know about me but I
also wanted to know about them you know
it didn’t matter what race or religion I
belong to or they belong to but we all
became people it was an amazing
experience but the one thing that I
really love about the word Sikh is it
means to learn and that’s what I love to
do when I put those two words together I
love to go and travel but I also love to
learn but it also taught me about who I
was who I belong to the rich culture the
British heritage my Indian heritage my
Sikh religion as well so it was so much
more than that and for me I believe that
everything has its own language whether
it be my tableau whether it be my camera
whether it be in the sciences technology
engineering you name it you know it’s
when we take that time to understand
what the knot and the gear is we can
start to
open gateways and that’s when we can
start to seek new experiences thank you
[Applause]
skills that we all possess it allows us
to become amazing people and interact
with people from all over the world we
can express our ideas our thoughts our
emotions and so much more through our
own unique language and I believe
there’s a language for everything and
it’s when we take the time to learn that
language we can start to really begin
the learning process and I’ve been
playing this amazing instrument called
the tabla right here since the age of
six and to understand the tabla you have
to understand its language and you have
to go all the way back to the ABCs and
the tabla originates from North India
and it consists of two drums and on my
right hand side is the Daiya it’s a
small treble drum and on my left hand
side is the biome it’s the big bass drum
and to learn the alphabet you will have
a certain technique that you use to
perform the tabla and on the right hand
drum you can hear such words such as nun
thin be Tony it ya know
up and on the bass on the buyer you can
hear two prominent sounds gay and get
and the really nice thing about the
buyer is that it can change pitch so I
can go get a gay gay KK KK KK KK KK KK
[Music]
it also produces slide notes get here
gay gay and when you start to progress
with the language you can start to
create words so if I play not and yeah
together creates the word done then and
yeah
creates the word then a couple of other
words dog a dot b v na get na they take
it there they take a target egg in the
DA did you go to the guitar and this
begins the language the real fun starts
to happen when you start to get in
involved and understand the grammar
because that’s where you can start to
build patterns you can start to build
rhythms and we almost become like
rhythmical architects and for example we
can take the two syllables gay gear and
bitter na na and kick it so I can create
something from there
[Applause]
well where do you go from there so the
language has power developing on from
that what I would like to do is just
show you a little demonstration and I
hope nothing else happens and I’ll show
you types of rhythms that from the ABCs
you can start to develop and turn into
rhythmical patterns the powder is
actually helps with sweaty hands and it
stops from squeaking as well so a lot of
people do ask that why do you keep doing
that is it special
[Music]
[Music]
you
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
and now is a very very small
introduction into the massive world of
tabla and what I really love about the
tabla is if you can spend lifetimes
learning this amazing instrument you can
spend time learning the grammar the
language the different types of patterns
that are all involved and the other
thing that I really love about this
tradition is the history it’s steeped in
it so it’s emigrated from many countries
and the tablet as what you see now has
actually formed into today the other
thing that I love is the tradition that
is attached to it and to learn this
music you have to study with your master
and it’s a master-disciple relationship
and that’s where all the traditional
compositions come from handed down from
generation to generation and I’ve been
lucky enough to study with a great
master today since the age of six as I
said before and he’s taught me a lot
about the instrument not only just the
music but also about life and what I
really love about it is he’s been
teaching me from such a young age but
now he says to me Sat you’ve got books
full of material and all you’re doing is
staying at home and practicing so
literally why he was saying is you
learned this amazing language but you’re
not going out into the world
communicating with people so I took his
advice and I packed my tabla jumped on
the next plane and ended up in South
Korea and in South Korea I worked as an
English teacher for two years and I took
my tablet into the class and I said to
the students exactly what I said here
today I played none and they started to
laugh and I just thought okay you know
that let’s move over to the buyer and I
played again and they started to laugh a
little bit more so I was confused so I
played Giggy Giggy
kkkk here and they erupted with laughter
and I’m just thinking why are you
laughing how about he just played two
notes and I looked at my co-teacher and
he said he was in stitches he said sack
play now one more time so I did and he
said sap na is a Korean word ever hold
on a minute there’s an ancient tradition
master-disciple compositions and like it
can’t be a crooner this is a traditional
tabla language and he said no it’s a
Korean heard so I wasn’t going to argue
with him and he said it means me or I
depending on the context that you use in
and he said Sat play gear one more time
so I did he said go up go down and he
said that word means dog so through my
own music and tradition I was calling
myself a dog so we started to laugh so
the students were in hysterics I was in
hysterics but I learned something new
but that moment something special
happened this gateway opened and allowed
students who’ve never seen the tabla
booth before to ask questions about it
so they were asking questions how fast
can you play can you play with kpop and
I was like other than a minute
what’s k-pop so they were telling me
what Korean music was pop music and so
through that I started to enquire and do
research about the drumming traditions
and they told me about them not only did
they want to know about the instrument
they also wanted to know who I was
he wanted to know about my Indian
culture my British culture as well they
wanted to know if I eat spicy food and
if I ate rice for breakfast and I was
like who eats right for breakfast but
that gateway allowed me to find out and
it was people of Korea so it was an
amazing experience
but through that gateway students told
me about something special they told me
about samulnori and Tamil nori is the
Korean traditional drum ensemble and
samulnori loosely translates into
playing for objects and those four
objects were trumped so I did my
research and I went to the local drum
studio and I happen to bump into some
master musicians and these musicians
were just incredible so I turned up and
I expected four people and I did and
these were four huge people four huge
people with four huge drums and massive
drumsticks and the door closed behind me
and I thought whatever let myself in for
so we sat down and I quickly realized
that these guys couldn’t speak any
English whatsoever and I couldn’t speak
any Korean either so we sat down and I
thought I’m going to struggle here and
so we started to communicate but we
communicated through our music and what
was really nice was that Gateway
appeared again after they had showed me
their rhythmical patterns I showed them
some of the tabla but when we started to
play again that’s when the magic side we
started to create music in such a
brand-new way and that would never have
happened if I never left my comfort zone
at home and for me staying in my comfort
zone in my practice I would never
discover the new technique a new way new
rhythms new patterns and so I was really
really thankful for that so that was an
amazing experience for me but I stayed
in Korea as I said for two years and
it’s got to be one of the most amazing
times of my life it allowed me to meet
new people experience a whole brand new
culture great food too and so much more
but that’s when I first discovered the
true meaning of what travels sick
actually meant it’s not thrown up in a
paper bag we all travel we all travel
whether it’s to our friend’s house for a
cup of tea or we travel you know go to
the airport jump on a plane go 5,000
miles to the other side of the world to
start a new challenge in South Korea and
the words sick that’s the religion that
I belong to that’s the faith that’s the
community I belong to and it is
pronounced that way but it’s also
pronounced Sikh
and with in Sikhism there are so many
wonderful teachings and philosophies but
the one that I started to really
understand was the one of oneness we
became one as humankind we connected
whether it is people in the class and
the students that the master musicians
the taxi drivers the people in the
supermarkets
they all wanted to know about me but I
also wanted to know about them you know
it didn’t matter what race or religion I
belong to or they belong to but we all
became people it was an amazing
experience but the one thing that I
really love about the word Sikh is it
means to learn and that’s what I love to
do when I put those two words together I
love to go and travel but I also love to
learn but it also taught me about who I
was who I belong to the rich culture the
British heritage my Indian heritage my
Sikh religion as well so it was so much
more than that and for me I believe that
everything has its own language whether
it be my tableau whether it be my camera
whether it be in the sciences technology
engineering you name it you know it’s
when we take that time to understand
what the knot and the gear is we can
start to
open gateways and that’s when we can
start to seek new experiences thank you
[Applause]
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