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PLaGuE CeLL 
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I really wanna get a set of tabla drums to use in my tunes, but i cant find anywhere that sells them...
I live in the UK near London, does anybody know of any street shops or websites that sell tablas?
im looking to spend roughly £75...
anybody who can help?
cheers 
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08-02-2007 20:56 |
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Surora23
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Originally posted by PLaGuE CeLL
I really wanna get a set of tabla drums to use in my tunes, but i cant find anywhere that sells them...
I live in the UK near London, does anybody know of any street shops or websites that sell tablas?
im looking to spend roughly £75...
anybody who can help?
cheers
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google that shit
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08-02-2007 20:57 |
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PLaGuE CeLL
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Originally posted by PLaGuE CeLL
I really wanna get a set of tabla drums to use in my tunes, but i cant find anywhere that sells them...
I live in the UK near London, does anybody know of any street shops or websites that sell tablas?
im looking to spend roughly £75...
anybody who can help?
cheers
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I've tried it mate lol nothing came up apart from American sites :p
tis why i asked here :p
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08-02-2007 20:58 |
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Knives
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I have a pair of Tabla.
75GBP might be a little low, considering the estimates I'm getting with currency converters puts that at about $170CAD. I paid just over $200CAD for mine, IIRC. They're a basic set and the sound is decent. You could probably find a place in North America that will ship them to you if you're willing to spend a bit more than 75GBP.
One thing I should tell you, though... the Tabla are one of the most difficult percussion instruments to take up. To learn properly, you're supposed to sign up for lessons - I know of people with the Indian musical background taking up to 20 years to become proficient Tabla players. I've been playing for a year, and I can get the drums to sound differently but can only play very basic, slow rhythms (sounds great with acoustic guitar though). What I can do is fine for sampling my own playing, but to actually LEARN how to play the Tabla takes serious commitment and years of your time.
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18-02-2007 20:26 |
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Yeah Knives is right, they are absolutely impossible to play. They have a couple of tablas at my former job and I tried to play them dozens of times but never managed to get a decent sound out of them. You end up thinking they are badly tuned, but it is all a matter of applying the right amount of pressure and proper wrist movement. Or maybe I'm just not Indian enough to play them 
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18-02-2007 22:35 |
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PLaGuE CeLL
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Yea i know theyre hard, but i like a challenge :p im pretty good with a djembe and have played a darbouka a few times, not to mention the endless drumming on desks when im bored 
I just want something to do with me hands and if they take 20 years to get good at then i guess thats 20 years where i keep me hands busy :p
And well, its what learning an instrument is all about, commitment and time :p
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18-02-2007 23:16 |
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Knives
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Thechronic, I'm not Indian either. Italian/Hungarian Canadian, actually... I'm a whiteboy.
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Yea i know theyre hard, but i like a challenge :p im pretty good with a djembe and have played a darbouka a few times, not to mention the endless drumming on desks when im bored
I just want something to do with me hands and if they take 20 years to get good at then i guess thats 20 years where i keep me hands busy :p
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Good attitude. I don't mean to discourage you from learning them, just pointing out that they're easy to get frustrated with, and if you want to learn 'properly' (eg: formally), you should get a teacher.
They're the kind of drum that you'll try all sorts of different strokes on because you can't seem to get 'the right sound' out of them, and then all of a sudden you'll get that perfect stroke... but you won't be able to recreate it for a little while afterwards because you're not entirely sure exactly what you did. It takes longer than other percussion instruments I've used (djembe, bongos, congas, etc.) to get even the basic strokes right.
But you sound like me; I like a challenge. I had a lot of spare time in the summer so I got my preferential techniqe with the Tabla down - I actually play them 'backwards', as I find it easier to do finger-strokes on the high (small) drum with my left hand, and easier to manipulate the skin on the low drum with my right wrist. This is COMPLETELY wrong, according to traditional formal teaching, but I can make decent sounds with the drums and keep a basic rhythm. I'll probably never have the hummingbird-fast fingers that some of the well-known Indian players do, but I'm content with what I can play.
Good luck!
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19-02-2007 21:30 |
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PLaGuE CeLL
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But you sound like me; I like a challenge. I had a lot of spare time in the summer so I got my preferential techniqe with the Tabla down - I actually play them 'backwards', as I find it easier to do finger-strokes on the high (small) drum with my left hand, and easier to manipulate the skin on the low drum with my right wrist. This is COMPLETELY wrong, according to traditional formal teaching, but I can make decent sounds with the drums and keep a basic rhythm. I'll probably never have the hummingbird-fast fingers that some of the well-known Indian players do, but I'm content with what I can play.
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Something i feel i might have a problem with is that :p You gotta play the equivalent of the snare with the right hand, but i see now that it is because the right hand needs to be much faster :p
I'm gonna try n keep as close to proper technique as i can, and i too know ill never be as fast as the pros, but i dont mind, i like the slower stuff anyway
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20-02-2007 18:10 |
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demolitionkid
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i think i have a shit load of tabla science samples ,all 24 bit if u want them.they sound great man just let me know pm me or whatever
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04-03-2007 16:08 |
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PLaGuE CeLL
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i found out my school has some tabla drums so i had a go today and theyre friggin awesome
I picked it up pretty good, the dayan (small drum) is pretty easy to play but the bayan (big drum) is pretty tricky, you need to be soooo precise and you need to be quite gentle with some of the strokes, that boop sound halph-price is talking about is reeeally hard to do, but i was sorta gettin the hang of it after a couple of hours
if i get me own set and i get a bit better at it ill make you lot a sample pack
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06-03-2007 00:03 |
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demolitionkid
where's demo?
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yeah like i said i have 24bit tabla science professionally recorded loops.if u find recording to be a lil tedious (as well as playin them) let me know
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