These actually DO exist, and they're called ek hatthi (one hand) compositions. Here is an ek hatthi tukra from Frances Shepherd's PhD dissertation, "Tabla and the Benares Gharana".
It's 16 matras long, and I separated each matra with a comma.
TaRaTaRa,TinNaTinNa,TaTinNaTa,TinNaTin-,
Tin-TaRan, --NaTa, Tet-Tet-, TaRaTinNa,
TaTinNaTa,TinNaTinNa,Ta-TeTe,TaTinNaTa,
TinNaTinNa,Ta-TeTe,TaTinNaTa,TinNaTinNa,
Ta
The story is that there was a tabla player over 100 years ago who became quite famous. He was invited by a king to play, and after hearing him, the king told the tabla player that from then on, he must only perform for him. The tabla player refused, since he had practiced long and hard so that everyone could derive pleasure from his playing. So, the king gave the order to cut off his left hand. After that, the tabla player composed hundreds of right-hand-only compositions.
Here is some exercises using only "na" and "ti te".
c : harmonic stroke on chanti
m : middle finger
1 : index finger
23 : middle and ring fingers
n� ti (c,m)
n� ti n� (c,m,c)
n� ti te (c,m,1)
n� te te (c,23,1) or (c,1,23)
n� te te n� (c,23,1,c) or (c,1,23,c)
n� ti te n� (c,m,1,c)
n� ti te ti (c,m,1,m)
n� ti te te (c,m,1,23)
They are rather simple but good to warm up the right hand.
How about that! Hats off to your research prowess, Shawn!
Shawn (Feb 07, 2003 03:22 p.m.):
These actually DO exist, and they're called ek hatthi (one hand) compositions. Here is an ek hatthi tukra from Frances Shepherd's PhD dissertation, "Tabla and the Benares Gharana".
It's 16 matras long, and I separated each matra with a comma.
TaRaTaRa,TinNaTinNa,TaTinNaTa,TinNaTin-,
Tin-TaRan, --NaTa, Tet-Tet-, TaRaTinNa,
TaTinNaTa,TinNaTinNa,Ta-TeTe,TaTinNaTa,
TinNaTinNa,Ta-TeTe,TaTinNaTa,TinNaTinNa,
Ta
The story is that there was a tabla player over 100 years ago who became quite famous. He was invited by a king to play, and after hearing him, the king told the tabla player that from then on, he must only perform for him. The tabla player refused, since he had practiced long and hard so that everyone could derive pleasure from his playing. So, the king gave the order to cut off his left hand. After that, the tabla player composed hundreds of right-hand-only compositions.
That's a good one. It's also good that the king didn't cut off the right hand because I think after a while a bunch of ghe ge ghe compositions would not have been as interesting.
Pete (Feb 08, 2003 05:02 p.m.):
How about that! Hats off to your research prowess, Shawn!
Shawn (Feb 07, 2003 03:22 p.m.):
These actually DO exist, and they're called ek hatthi (one hand) compositions. Here is an ek hatthi tukra from Frances Shepherd's PhD dissertation, "Tabla and the Benares Gharana".
It's 16 matras long, and I separated each matra with a comma.
TaRaTaRa,TinNaTinNa,TaTinNaTa,TinNaTin-,
Tin-TaRan, --NaTa, Tet-Tet-, TaRaTinNa,
TaTinNaTa,TinNaTinNa,Ta-TeTe,TaTinNaTa,
TinNaTinNa,Ta-TeTe,TaTinNaTa,TinNaTinNa,
Ta
The story is that there was a tabla player over 100 years ago who became quite famous. He was invited by a king to play, and after hearing him, the king told the tabla player that from then on, he must only perform for him. The tabla player refused, since he had practiced long and hard so that everyone could derive pleasure from his playing. So, the king gave the order to cut off his left hand. After that, the tabla player composed hundreds of right-hand-only compositions.
