Pandit Uday Bhawalkar is a standard bearer for Dhrupad, and a strong force in its growing recognition and popularity. In this video he demonstrates nuances of Dhrupad performance and its history through singing of Raag Ahir Bhairav
This lecture is very much useful , vauable.I have ever heard such precious and thoughtful lecture. With my deepest respect Paula I have listen it several times.
He is right! Tabla comes from Afghanistan. In Afghanistan and iran there is a percussion instrument called " naghara" which is like tabla. And it also worth mentioning that the word "tabla" or "tabl" in Persian means a percussion.
Aewsome! Just one suggestion to the uploader - please do not use short forms of important words like Lecture and Demonstration, so do not use Lec and Dem - if you use full words there it will be easy to find out the video on search engines as most people would not know those short forms.