Resources for Learning Tabla

Resources for Learning Tabla

This blog post is intended to be a collection of resources for fellow students of tabla. There is no substitute for lessons with a knowledgeable teacher but these resources can serve an introductory purpose for beginners and as "continuing education" for more advanced players.

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Tabla- How To Play The Notes (Bols)

Check out this and more great tabla lesson videos from Sarv Anandji's YouTube Channel

There are quite a few tabla lesson videos on YouTube and more being added all the time.

Websites

• Tabla - Wikipedia
• List of Tabla Players - Wikipedia
• Percussionist Pete Lockett's Homepage
• Tabla tutorials
• David Courtney's Tabla Site

Books

• Mel Bay Learning the Tabla Book/CD Set by David Courtney
• Fundamentals of Tabla, Vol. 1 by David Courtney
• The Art of Tabla Playing by Prof. Sudhir Kumar Varma (pdf)
  This is a wonderful book with a lot of compositions, history, and other information about tabla with many examples of compositions from various Gharanas.