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Listening to Ustad Zakir Hussain<\/a> is always magical!!! He makes his tabla sing, dance and chant sholakas. He can make Bramha, Vishnu, Mahesh, Ganapati wake up and take notice of someone calling them out!<\/p>\n

Rela\u2019s – Ustad ji has the most entertaining way of describing a term like rela -he choose this one to explain what rela is to the audience of Nagpur \u201c They said when the steam engine pulled into..Nagpur…at a superfast speed of twelve miles per hour. So the maharaja in those days told his court musicians please compose a rhythmic composition for this memorable occasion. So he took the syllable (bol) dhiredhire and composed a drum roll-like composition and of course the maharaj in his own wisdom gave tha composition on the word rel, rela. So here\u2019s a rela. performance and he went on to demonstrate a steam engine sound using tabla syllables. Here<\/a> is an mp3 from one of his older performances where he defines a rela and then performs it.<\/p>\n

He went on to play several relas demonstrating Shloka\u2019s Radha-Krishna Ched Chad, pitter patter of rain interspersed with thunder and lightning <\/p>\n

It was a performance I thoroughly enjoyed watching with Aasim who at the end said – \u201d I did not understand all of it, but I still did\u201c. Aasim has been learning tabla only since past three months and has not yet gone beyond the initial kayda of trital…<\/p>\n

After the concert, we met Aasim\u2019s tabla guru Mr. Ramesh Uike and Ramesh ji\u2019s Ustad, Ustad Sheru Khan, a contemporary of Ustad Alla Rakha – Guru and Father of Ustad Zakir Hussain.<\/p>\n

Ustad Sheru Khan performed on a different plane all together – at 82, he quickly taught the people who surrounded him some gat\u2019s and tukda\u2019s by just spelling out the bols and clapping – its a different language these people talk in they are capable carrying out a complete conversation in ta tirkit, dha!!!<\/p>\n

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