GAALC - Indian Music School - Online Tabla Class Lessons

GAALC - the Global Academy of Arts, Languages and Culture Founded in 2012, GAALC is one of the top rated international online performing arts learning school academy based at New Delhi in India offering online musical instruments training class lessons on Skype, Google Meet, Duo and Zoom as real time. one-on-one, interactive, live instrumental music learning class lessons online for the global music students. GAALC offers certificate level hobby learning courses of short term (24 months duration), regular term (36 months duration) and extended term (54 months duration) duration with modern curriculum guided online class lessons to learn performing arts - learning how to play musical instruments, voice training - vocal singing music lessons online and online dance lessons to learn dancing.

GAALC music school academy conducts online instrumental music learning lessons to learn playing Indian classical musical instrument Tabla, Tabla is a popular string musical instrument and the online lessons for learning how to play Tabla are offered as Tabla beginner level lessons for beginners learning to play Tabla online, Intermediate level Tabla lessons and Advanced level Tabla lessons online. The Tabla learning course lessons curriculum - the Tabla teaching syllabus is exclusively developed for providing an effective online Tabla training to the kids, children, young adults, school / university / college students learning Tabla as a hobby and equally providing professional level Tabla training to the aspiring musicians learning to play Tabla to perform in public music concerts or musical shows as professional Tabla expert players.The online Tabla class lessons offered by GAALC are conducted by the senior, experienced and qualified Indian Tabla Gurus, the famous Tabla teachers as top online Tabla trainers, the best trained Tabla players working as the online Tabla instructors in the instrumental music faculty at GAALC music school academy in India.

ABOUT TABLA PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: Tabla is a membranophone percussion instrument, a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres, used in the Indian Hindustani classical music and believed to be evolved from barrel shaped drum called Pakhawaj musical instrument. The term Tabla is derived from an Arabic word, 'tabl', meaning "drum. The higher-pitched of the two Tabla drums, which is made of wood and played with the right hand is smaller in size and is referred to individually as the Tabla or as the daya (dahina or dayan, meaning “right”), Siddha or Chatto. The left hand metal drum, larger in size and has a much deeper bass tone is called Dagga, Duggi, Dhama or baya (bahina or bayan, meaning "left") and may be made of iron, aluminium, copper, steel, or clay; although brass with a nickel or chrome plate is the most common material used. Each Tabla drum has two layers of goatskin stretched across its top to provide a playing surface. The top layer is cut in a circle around the rim, and the bottom layer stretches across the entire drum. The most unique aspect of tabla is the application of an iron and rice paste that is placed in a circle on top of the drum head. That black paste called the Tabla Shyahi, a mixture of gum, soot, and iron filings affects pitch resulting in the clarity of pitch and variety of tonal possibilities unique to Tabla percussion instrument and produces a bell-like timbre. Both drums are played by seated musicians with the fingers and hand strokes, sometimes with the palm of the hand.

CONSTRUCTION OF TABLA MUSICAL INSTRUMENT:

The Daya Tabla drum (right hand Tabla drum) is a single-headed bass drum made from a conical piece of mostly teak and rosewood hollowed out to approximately half of its total depth and having the profile of two truncated cones bulging at the centre, the lower portion being shorter. It is about 25 cms in height and 15 cms across. Skin tension is maintained by thong lacings and with cylindrical wood blocks, known as ghatta which are inserted between the straps and the shell allowing tension to be adjusted by their vertical positioning. The daya or right hand Tabla drum is tuned to a specific note, usually either the tonic, dominant or subdominant and complements the melody, so is tuned to the tonic pitch of the composition the instrumentalist or vocalist performs, usually tuned to the tonic, or ground note, of the Indian Hindustani classical raga (melodic framework). Fine tuning of Tabla is achieved while striking vertically on the braided portion of the head using a small, heavy Tabla hammer.

The Baya Tabla drum (left hand Tabla drum) is a deep kettledrum measuring about 25 cms in height, and the drum face is about 20 cms in diameter. It is usually made of brass, copper, clay, aluminum, steel or wood, with a hoop and thong lacings to maintain skin tension. Pressure from the heel of the player’s hand changes the tone colour and pitch. The Tabla tuning of the baya Tabla varies, which may be a fifth or an octave below the daya Tabla, Bayan or left hand Tabla drum is tuned not to a specific pitch, but to one that can easily be modulated to imitate the intricate drum.

Both Tabla drum shells are covered with a head (called puri) constructed from goat skin, an outer ring of skin (keenar) is overlaid on the main skin and serves to suppress some of the natural overtones. These two skins are bound together with a complex woven braid that gives the assembly enough strength to be tensioned on the Tabla drum shell. There are goatskin straps to hold the Tabla drum heads in place at a very high tension, and Tabla tuning blocks on the side of the drums to control the pitch. The head is affixed to the drum shell with a single camel hide strap laced between the braid of the head assembly and another ring of same strap material is placed on the bottom of the drum. For stability while playing, each drum is positioned on a toroidal bundle called chutta or guddi, consisting of plant fiber or another malleable material wrapped in cloth. The name of the head areas of the Tabla drums are: Chat, Chanti, Keensar, Kinar, Kisur, Maidan, Lao and Luv, the name of the center areas of the Tabla drums are: Syahi, Siaahi and Gob.

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• Live, one-on-one, real time, interactive online music lessons for the music students of all learning levels and Genre of music - vocal music & instrumental music.
• Convenient online music lessons schedules for almost all the global time zones, multilingual music lessons with options of 1/2 or 3 online Tabla music classes / week.
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• Save on the valuable travel time, traffic woes and the cost of travelling to the nearest music teacher / music school, learn Tabla in relaxed manner at home.
• Safe & convenient option for kids, children, women & elderly to learn music at home online, the family members or friends & colleagues can learn music together comfortably.
• Unmatched advantage of the flexible time schedules of online music class lessons for international Tabla music school students, best for the busy modern lifestyle
• Freedom to learn music at one's own pace & convenient time schedules with the flexible music course duration programs, easily adjustable with the busy work schedules.
• Better consistency & concentration, least missed music classes due to flexible online music classes. Make-up / replacement classes available for the classes missed.
• Advanced, international standard music training curriculum, an effective and modern distance e-learning program by a truly global music school academy.
• Learning from the International faculty of Tabla musicians including the top qualified, best experienced professional music teachers online from all over the world.
• Advanced music E-books learning content & music practice (Riyaaz) tools for all of the online music learning levels and for global Tabla music students.
• Well defined curriculum with traditional music + modern music concepts for all levels of learning vocal & instrumental music, curriculum developed by the global music experts.
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• Freedom to Join the appropriate level of the vocal & instrumental music course classes after an individual level evaluation & the expert opinion by GAALC music school faculty.
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