Publisher : Splice Sounds
Website : Splice Sounds
Format : WAV
Quality : 24 bit 44.1 kHz stereo
Description: Dhruv Goel presents The Lab: Indian Rhythms, a comprehensive collection of percussion instruments from India. The package contains authentic and modern sounding loops/one shots recorded in New Delhi, Chennai and Los Angeles. Thanks to the amazing talents of MT Aditya Srinivasan, Kaushlesh Purohit, Sashank Navaladi and Sunil Kumar, these samples are perfect for any song or movie score. The instruments in the package include Thavil, Dholak, Kanjira, Ghatam, Tabla, Thappattam, metal and wood percussion and percussion ensembles. This package also includes high quality recordings of Konnakol and Tabla Bols, which are forms of Indian vocal percussion. All samples were recorded dry using only close and room microphones. We want the user to be able to select the reverb and delay for these sounds,
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First, what a great sampler of Hindi percussive elements. American English is my native language, and in terms of Hindi languages (there are 33 distinct languages in India and Pakistan!?!?!?!?) I’m about a 0.01 out of 10.
There’s a directory on this referring to “konnakol vocals”. From what I’ve learned, konnakol is different to what is heard here…… I THINK there’s another term for it and “konnakol” isn’t it.
The caller (generally an instructor) in actual konnakol calls the time value of the notes to play back to him/her; could be a string of 16th, 8th, 32nd notes and mixes thereof.
What is heard here I THINK is the caller dictating the TONES to play back to the master; (I THINK) the tones are determined by which joints of the fingers strike the drum head and also their orientation to the drums’ skins. Each syllable is the name of a joint in the finger.
Not trying to saying anyone’s wrong, I’m here to learn 🙂 I hear lines like “dahnya gidda dahnya gidda dahnya gidda dah…….gidda-gidda-gidda-gidda-gidda…….ETC :)”, and assume those are names of tones the student must play…….. f’in Hindi over-achievers 🙂 🙂 Y’alls parents get ridiculous with the “acceptable standards”
There’s a (gorgeous) female tabla master named Heena Patel who sang an incredibly long tabla part, video here…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGa49Tky-Y
Thanks, too!