 That's me playing the table. Whose taji is Corbin Miles. Ta-da! Too much of a joke there. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Reactions Idiots. I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. And you call us on Instagram? I'm Tuto! Tuzi! Koglars. He's so juicy. Whose taji is your Corbin miles. You did. He is more talented than I am. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Yeah, I think he could do a little better than me. I can do like them. But he can do like everything else. I can do this. Yeah. I can bring that to the tablet party. Yeah. Anyway, today we're doing a little bit of information. This is a tablet lesson by, say this name. Sanju Sahal. Or is that Sahai? Is that an I? Yes. Sanju Sahai. A western viola player gets a short lesson in Tabla from Tabla Maestro, Sanju Sahai. Dedicated specifically to Corbin. Thanks. Appreciate that. If I had a dollar for every time he says how do they make these sounds with their fingers, I'd be rich. It's true. They're going to tell us how they make those sounds. They're going to tell you how they make these sounds with the fingers. Hope this gives some insights into that. I told your mom how I did something else with my fingers. Ooh, and she told me she loved it. Okay, let's see. We're so gross. Let's just get into this. Wow. I'm disgusted now. That is so disgusting. Here we go. This is cool. Also, have we heard this gentleman before? Have we ever seen him? I don't know. Clearly he's an ustaji as well. Yeah, I mean, he's... Heis. I'm a viola player. Heis. Today I'm going to experience something very, very special. I'm dressed like this, seated like this, and I'm meeting a very special man. He's called Sanju Sahay and he's a fantastic tabla player. And hopefully he's going to teach me something about Indian classical music. Maybe teach me the very basics of the tabla. And I've brought my viola so we can see if we can maybe play something together. But we'll see about it later. Sanju, hi. Hi. Can you tell me something general about Indian classical music? Sure. I played the instrument called tabla, which comes from the northern part of India. As you know, India is huge. And we have two main systems. Hindustani music, which is from the northern part of India. And in the south, as you call, kanatik music. Tabla, unlike other... So if I said dhadiruk dhadida to you, it means absolutely nothing. But you say that to a tabla player, it means this. Dhadiruk dhadida. Dhadiruk dhadida. Dhadiruk dhadida. Dhadiruk dhadida. Dhadiruk dhadida. Dhadiruk dhadida. Dhadiruk dhadida. Now in this side, everything I speak, I can play on the drums. Now how do I do that? I just want to say sounds to a tabla player. Like most languages. On the right hand drum, we have 12 different strokes. They are na, din, din, te, te, te, re. So those sounds actually mean somewhere, oh wow. I just thought they were a sound. Me too. When they're saying dhadiruk dhadiruk dhadira, they're doing that. It's more. So probably about two. Only two. Also known as ghay, ghay sometimes. And ki, ka, and ka. But this is the melodic side tabla. Once we choose the right hand drum tabla, to say your tonic, we can't change the pitch. But here on the bayan, the left hand drum is called bayan, we can I can actually change the pitch. So what would you like to learn about tabla today? Well, it'd be great to have a very basic, maybe basic stroke we take with it, because then, as in the other way, I'm just going, it doesn't sound right, does it? No. Playing like a congo. Let's place it very close to the pitch. It's not comfortable for him. He's got long legs. I laugh because I used to have a problem with that. I know what that feels like. We place our hands like this, and in tabla normally, we make this shape. So, which is the cross leg and seat. His knees are flat down. You can't do it. I would make the left hand as if you're holding a little ball here. We place it on the edge of this round black spot known as siahit. Siahit, yes. We place the hand right on the edge of it, and using these two fingers, the ring finger and the middle finger, we make it quite like this. It's two of them? Yes. Very good. And that's known as gihi. Although it's not wrong for you to play with the same set of fingers, but this is like hopping on one leg. You can run if you use the other one. Stroke like that. The second one with the index finger. With the index finger. I would choose staji. Is the cute thing? Doesn't actually play a stroke, but they're always supporting. So, aim to have the middle finger right in the center of the staji. And making sound means you may want to use some talcum powder. Good for the balls, dude. Actually, I think you can use the cancer now. Did they? I've never done that. I know a lot of guys that do gypsy do it. They could put it on like it's an equal amount of style. And exactly in the same spot. Not as flat. The index finger. It has such force in its fingers. Listen to the difference of the tone. There it was. It's quite the same. No, it doesn't. It's tuned differently. Yeah, but it's also the way he's hitting it. Sure, it has nothing to do with your skill. We're doing it. So, you could hear it. We don't have tunes in tabla. But we have theme and variations. So, the theme is known as kaida. So, I will teach you kaida number one. The first line. So, we know. It's hard to get that much force. It's right in the middle. We use this to demonstrate how the horses move like. It begins the same way. Which is? So, in the same space as they did, we're now playing four different servos. First line. The first two lines. The third and fourth line is known as moondi. They come in rhyme. So complicated. Like, even just in drumming, you don't have this many. Like this. Like, how will they begin? They're just like jazz. They're just free-forming this. Completely wrong. We add that from the beginning up to here. What beginning? What? Are we not in the beginning anymore? Okay. Yes. Brilliant. The last line is same as the second line. Yeah. So, that's what the last line is. Very good indeed for somebody who's never ever played tabla before. I'd like you to play the kaida. The tempo you are playing. I'd like you to demonstrate how we I'd love to do something like this. Me too. Dream of wee boobs. I'm pretty sure that's a a privileged, very few catch. That's like having a catch with Eddie Van Halen. I should use you as my metronome. So, don't be distracted. I will change the tempo. You just keep going. You just keep going. One, two, one, two, three, four. So, the same kaida which was sounding quite robotic. Let's transpose it. Things like it's hard obviously because we don't have all who are in it. It'd be very easy to find a tabla player and have them sit down with us and do a quick learn video. Just call to Char and say hey, we need to talk to somebody who plays. Okay, here, call my friend. Obviously, it's much more different and we're in a pandemic. Of course, and I can't just call up Zuck here who's saying you want to teach us. I'm pretty sure that's a privilege exclusive for no one. Yeah, there's stuff I would have loved to like games we've seen or like comedy, I would love to play comedy or maybe if we said million celebrations since you were our very first interview would you let us interview you again and just let ten minutes of it be you teach us how to play the tabla because everybody will talk to who I want to talk to again. One, because that was our first interview ever. I know. And so and now we've learned more. He was so gracious. He was so gracious to us. Absolutely. That was nice. That was really cool. Yeah, it was really cool seeing Tony. Obviously it's an instrument that you can't just teach in the setting. You can't just teach it and it's not like, you know, with a drum set you can go into a guitar center here and I can sit down on a drum set and I can go and you could think I know how to play. A drummer could come in and go that's fine. It's just a standard thing he's doing. Let's see if he actually knows how to play the drums but at least he can sit on the kit and play it. You can't do that. No. You can't just start hitting on it. It's like minute you start to strike it, a tabla player is going to know. There's a power that comes from their fingers. Everything about it. They're going to know instantly if you've been trained on tabla. You can't just sit down and play it and get away with it. And it was cool. I love watching people who obviously this man on the viola is fantastic. And he's willing to be teachable and sit in front of someone else to do something and be a beginner. Which everybody and he was at one point on the viola. He was a beginner at one point. Yeah. So that was really great. That was really cool. Let us know what other informational videos if anybody knows any famous musicians who just love to teach their stuff. Send them our way. Our way. If Lada is free or we haven't left to learn how to do what she does. She really teaches in a few lessons. She's got nothing else to do. Let us know.