Hey all..
I have been playing weird tin cans in class and trying to generate drum kind of effect. My final product is inspired from Indian classical Instrument TABLA…
Tabla is the most used instrument in Indian classical music as well as non-classical music. It was made out of splitting an insturment which is known as MRIDANGAM…
Mridangam was split into a bigger module named as ‘Dagga’ and smaller one named as ‘Tabla’. Dagga gives a base sound and tabla a high pitced sound. One plays tabla using both the hands. The Membrane of Tabla is made out of animal skin and has a clay head. The tabla drums are unlike other membrane drums because their playing technique is much more sophisticated and delicate than that of, say, congas or bongos, where the head it struck with the hand. The tablas require much careful practice and refinement of technique, because improper technique can easily damage the drum heads.
The tablas consist of two separate drums, the “Bayan” (bigger for bass) and “Dayan” (small, higher pitches). The bayan is usually played with the left hand and the dayan with the right. The bayan is responsible for low booming sounds and deeper slap sounds and ‘modulation’ where the pitch is continuously varied. The dayan gives a wide range of taps, slaps, tones and other percussive effects.
There are also other instruments which were generated using Tabla like CONGA-DRUMS..
One more instrument which works like tabla but has both the parts (Dagga ad tabla) in one piece..this is called DHOLAK…in India
This is a Kin of Dholak called The Arabic Dholak…
Dholak is also simmilar to Bata which is used in different parts of the world..
This was my research on how same kind of sound (Drumming) can be achieved by different instruments, that all the same category.
I will have already started with the initial ideas…and have bought paint containers. What I want to use instead of the animal skin membarne is either Glad plastic wrap(as suggested by Ranjit) or Aluminium foil(have already tried that in class) or just play on the lid of the container attaching micro-phone at the bottom of it.
To get the clay effect i’ll probably use an adhesive which when spread in layers gives the same feel.
I have a picture that I found simmilar to my Idea. Have a look..
This is just an empty container with plastic wrap on top of it.
I would love to get some feed backs from anyone and everyone on the way I am moving towards building my instrument and if you think there is something else I can try please do let me know.
Posting the music that me and hisang made for our class performance. I played this on an empty can with micro-phone at the base.
girl-band1.mp3
Thanks,
Meha
