My tablas! (not pictured: the all-important Johnson & Johnson regular baby powder)
Seriously, I love these little guys. I have my second lesson (and, naturally, my first with the drums) tomorrow
Dha dhin - Dha dha tin - Ta tin - Da Dha Dhin - (I believe that's the 'Chachar' taal)
Lots more to come on that later.
Moving on, I keep promising this mysterious post on the underlying connection between music and the brain - how we hear music, play music, and how the human brain universally evolved into a musical organ (not intended as a pun, for you lovers of E. Power Biggs). And indeed, I am working on that; it has become more of a serious research project, and I have already begun writing it. However, I want to finish re-reading "Musicophilia" by Oliver Sacks before posting things. I skimmed large chunks of it last year, but balancing a full-time office job, a part-time teaching job, and a gigging band complicated things, shall we say.
To tide you over, here's an wacky-sounding unfinished composition I was working on in 2006 before my computer crashed (diagnosis: vile XP). While incomplete, it more or less functions as a song on its own. Enjoy!
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