Tremendous Benares Tabla Solo | Bhupinder Chaggar | Music of India

► #darbarfestival Bhupinder Chaggar plays 16 beat tabla solo in Teental with nagma by Ajay Joglekar. Recorded at Darbar Festival, Phoenix Theatre in Leicester on 5 April 2008.

Bhupinder Chaggar (tabla)
Ajay Joglekar (harmonium nagma)
Gunwant Kaur (tanpura)

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Bhupinder Chaggar is among the UK’s finest tabla players. He studied under the renowned Pandit Sharda Sahai of the Benares gharana, and now teaches at the Leeds College of Music as well as collaborating widely, including flamenco, Portuguese folk, and hip-hop.

The Benares tabla gharana was developed a little over 200 years ago by Pandit Ram Sahai (1780–1826). At the age of nine, Ram moved to Lucknow to become a disciple of Modhu Khan of the Lucknow gharana.

After some time performing in Benares, Pandit Ram Sahai felt the need to make a significant change in his tabla playing. For six months, he withdrew into seclusion, and worked to develop what is now known as the Benares baj or style of tabla playing. The philosophy behind this new style of tabla playing is that it would be versatile enough to perform solo, and to accompany any form of music or dance. The tabla would be able to play delicately, as required for khyal, or more aggressively, like pakhawaj, for the accompaniment of dhrupad or kathak dance. Ram Sahai developed a new way of fingering the tabla strokes; especially important is the sound Na, being played with a curved ring finger to allow for maximum resonance of the dahina. He also composed numerous compositions within existing compositional forms (gats, tukras, fard, parans etc.) and created new forms, such as uthan, Benarasi theka, and fard.

Learn more at: https://www.darbar.org/artist/bhupinder-chaggar/92

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