OMG...best concert I've ever seen on the RU-vid! My wife has been yelling at me to get off but just couldn't leave the screen! Best Tabla drumming I've ever heard!
The maestro of the tabla blesses us again with his extraordinary playing and that of his fellow percussionists and drummers. As well as the great Niladri Kumar on the sitar. Thank you for this video, capturing the best of the best, supreme musicians. I have been blessed to see Zakir three times with L. Shankar; once with Shivkumar Sharma. As well as attend his tabla classes; and the Masters of Percussion, once in a small church in Berkeley (The same place I saw Ali Akbar Khan!); and at the Zellerbach Auditorium, U.C. Berkeley. He has enriched my life beyond measure. All love and gratitude 🙏 ❤
How variously beautiful is our country and its rhythms, let us celebrate it. I remember the words of Usad Bade Gulam Ali Khan "If every boy and girl in every home knew Hindustani music this country would never have become two". Which beyond petty nationalism, implies that people are united in their culture though countries separate them. When fundamentalists try to paint a monochrome picture of India they always try to forget the rich amalgam of histories that is India in its present form.
quantrake beg to disagree with the bade khan saheb. Thanks goodness it was divided. otherwise instead of music would have had bombs and shariah everywhere.
Ypumdo Do you know classical music and heritage is pretty much destroyed in Pakistan, it is barely survivng in big cities of Pakistan but not in good health. There is mo multicultural or multi religion exist in pakistan (don’t count ever decreasing minority). Lets come out of this fenciful glorious past descriptions by Nehru clan as there was none. Hell aurangzeb banned music as it was against islam. Thank god for partition. Not saying pakistanis are bad but majority of Pakistani don’t consider this as their culture and they associate themselves more with Arabs and turks.
+Farida Nanji Zakir was taught the language bol before he came out of the womb, and grew up with a tabla master of immense proportions, if you call Alla Rakha god then yes Zakir is a gift from god. When ones life is programmed by skillful caretakers you develop your skills early, and hence get a head start at learning a skill. Thank you Alla Rakha, thank you Zakir Hussein, and thank you all who have been a part of this great performance
If anyone could answer my question i would greatly appreciate it. I play tabla and also weight train. Recently during heavy riyaz i find it hard to practice for long periods of time due to muscle soreness from working out. Also i do powerlifting so does that make it worse? (make arm stiff, not being able to relax to play tabla comfortably, make me slower at tabla)?? please someone answer, thank you
Thank you so much for your reply Almas. I will now answer your questions. I have been training for about 2 years. Powerlifting consists of using heavy weights with short amount of reps, eg 5. Therefore in my opinion it doesn't really promote flexbility in ones body or supplement tabla playing. I haven't trained since I posted that message and feel like I have soo much energy now. I know what your saying about changing routines often and how it fatigues you more, but powerlifting specifically holds me back in terms of stiffness. I'm gonna start calisthenics. It's way more natural on the body and I think it will supplement tabla playing brilliantly. What do you think?
Please forgive my ignorance, I have discovered short time ago the world of Indisn Classical Music but...I find Sarangi player on this performance is a monster, I am astonished hearing him...who is this player?
I really enjoyed the the sitar and tabla starting at 1:20:00. Im a westerner with out much knowledge of this style, but I found it soothing and memorizing,
Zakir Hussain does this Masters of Percussion series live tour many times. Everytime its with different artist. I have seen one here (San Francisco bay area) back in late 90s. Its to be experienced 'Live'!
Niladri Kumar is the extraordinary sitar player for all who are interested to know (!) He has some wonderful recordings. One that is mind blowing, with a bass player named Jonas Hellborg. And a beautiful one with sarod player Chinmaya Dunster.
The finest sarangi lehera I’ve ever heard. To play two distinct ragas for each tabla player was genius. I couldn’t place the first raga, but I could place the second. It was Charukeshi. Can anyone place define the first raga that was played Zakir ji? Thank you
+Amrinder Singh (Rubal) .. right .. although you personally did not do anything special to make that happen .... in other words, you were not given any other choice ...
Absolutely insane. Almost missed the concert on the 1st tour of Masters Of Percussion in Edmonton after smoking joints on the parkade roof next to the venue. Made it in with seconds to spare and had my mind blown completely up.
Very impressive amasing awesome ...thats it ..to admire this concert only i should improve or do research new words from other dan at present my vocabulary.thats enough i think.
hey all, anyone know at around min 50 where the guy playing the tambourine like instrument is from and what its calleD? or his name or whatever thanks!
I keep seeing both drummers reaching down occasionally to a flat tray to their right and they seem to dip their fingers in it just before resuming the playing. Can anyone tell me what they are doing? Is there something in that tray that helps such as a powder or something else? Or am I just seeing things.
***** The name I know of that drum is "@search?q=chaughada&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=925&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=shuGVLDuNtTYoAS1toLYCA&ved=0CDAQ7Ak". It probably could have different name in Hindi or other languages.
Hello friend, In indian classical music there are several parts/steps in a performance. The sitar demonstration in the video is very very musical, he begins with an "aalap" which has three stages of its own, this is mean to present the "raaga". It may not be very rhythmical but it is musical because of the unique combinations in which the musician presents/uses the notes
All i can say is that explore enough sitar music and you will start listening the beauty. Listen to the masters, here , I will give you a short one to listen. /watch?v=Jvu39ISF3k8. Listen from start until 4:45 and then make up your mind. Place close attention to the microtonal bends, these are very hard to find in other string instruments specially guitar and I'm a guitarist myself. Let me know what you think. The guys name is Shahid Parvez and he is a modern day master.
My guess is the music is in that beautiful Jhinjhoti he plays. Controversial techniques, yes - third finger, chords... but there's no denying the beauty of it.
