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Q: What can you tell us about the history of drums?
It has to be the East Indian Tabla, a finger drum. When they are learning to play these drums they have to learn to sing the rhythms first, then they learn to play them on the drums.
You can play many notes on the two drums depending on how you might even change the tension of the skin with the heal of the hand while hitting the drum with the fingers.
Instead of a 4 note phrase like there is in most popular western music, they could have a 23 note phrase. So that's one bar of their music. 23 notes, that he would have to learn πbefore going on to the next one, all this on top of the different timing of the sitar player.
The Tabla is a very intricate instrument and requires mastering polyrhythms.
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