With due respect I heard Tafo khan many times but a sweetness and softness in tabla is still pending from him. I admire Mian sahab he played much batter than Tafo khan. Dosre alfaaz men jo soft mezaj log hen vo Mian sahab ko hi sunna pasand karte hen is ki bari misaal Khan sb Nusrat Fateh Ali khan k walid ustad Fateh Ali khan sb ki barsi sy pata chalti hy kun k waha hameesha jitna bhi bara function ho mian sb ya un k Shagird Tari khan hi bulaye jaty hen. Kisi ko bura lage to mazrat
don´t be mistaken..one of the very best tabla players there is...look to the crowd response..and there is some of the finest players in that crowd! respect!
zakir ji ko unchaa dikhane k liye tafoo ji ko kyu gira rahe ho....u cant say like this to his thousands of hours practice and dedication to mintain this much speed and creating different style of playing................. although zakir ji is my favourite also....but tafoo is also unique and senior most tabla player.........u can see 'zakir with tafoo' recording on youtube.........zakir ji like to sit with the feet of tafoo and in every moment zakir ji is appreciting the tabla of tafoo..........
This Player (Ten Fingers Tafo) I shall call him with respect; has the One thing that makes him stand out from a very large crowd (In Tabla Players) and thats ORIGINALITY ! Only good tabla players should be allowed to comment here as it is only they who can appreciate him with understanding. Thanks for the clip.
he is the most ''tayyar'' tablia of this era nobody can match his pace on both dayan and bayan but perhaps lacks abit of musicality that is why my favourite is Tari sahib he is great
One of the greatest Punjab style Tabliyas was the late Ustad Bashir Hussain Goga. He played thematically but could do so at blazing speeds. You can easily find an mp3 of his music on the web. judge for yourselves.
The tihai that starts at around 2:05 is one of the best I've seen. Really cool playing. Also, the mishra jati kayada he plays later (tak dhin tak) is almost impossible to play that fast. I wonder how he does it.
The "ten fingers baaj" is a subset of one of the many silsilas of the Punjab style. There are many sub-styles within the Punjab style but having said that, it is still tough to compare this style to the others.
Tafo khan means a maestro for only those who understand tabla as he is matchless even today. Match his speed, accuracy, continuity, rhythm, variety and then comment negatively as most of the Indians do. Please point out technically the fault in his Qaida, Gath, Theka, Rela, Tukra, Tirkit, Dhirdhir or Tehaee. Khali khooli bakwas nahi please!
ustad tafo ji's tabla..actually is very complex...n does not lack anyhting..he made his style so that it is hard to copy..u see many tabla players copying many of ustad zakir husssain ji's pieces..but tafo khan ji's in my opinion r harder to copy..very complex finger movement style...
His fingers are just like crazy butterflies, this is a wonderful bouquet of relas. Pity that many guys in the audience make "WAH !" at some wrong moments...They should appreciate the music instead of waiting for the sam to shout "WAAAHHH !" to look good at the camera.
I'm reading bunch of fools commenting here as a great ustads while they are forgetting becoming a great maestro of any instrument or singer beside God gifted talent, hard work humility and love, respect among them and before them is essential and through those qualities they have attain their fame. you watch any of these maestros interviews they never talk ill of other greats regardless of other greats style geographical background or language. "Ba Adab ba naseeb bey adab bey naseeb"
actually it is the farukhhabad gharana and the present khalifa is sutad sabir khan. As most of the artists of this gharana stayed in calcutta for a long time like masit khan, karamutullah khan ahmad jaan thirakwa, gyan prakash ghosh shyamal bose and shankar ghosh, people believe it is the calcutta style.
A quick note: This is not Ustad Tafo's own invented style. His guru, Ustad Ghulam Hussain Khan Jullandhari, invented the ten finger tabla style. He taught his son, Ustad Faryaad Hussain Khan and Ustad Tafo. Listen to Ustad Faryaad Hussain's CD. Ustad Faryaad was just as good as Ustad Tafo but more modest.
Ustad Tafo Khan is superb but I don't understand why people are taking the name of the style "ten finger baaj" so literally. He plays his duggi with four fingers and the tabla with 3 fingers plus the pinky once in a while. The thumbs are still used as counterweights to produce strong bols.
some of you nay sayers here have no awareness, this clip is very old, hence th edrab harmonium, but its a "TABLA SOLO" not harmonium solo. those guys saying wha are expressing their DELIGHT at anytime!>> that's how it is in India, pakistan
I have the audio recording of this solo as well, but what i meant to say was that this is just one of Tafo Khan's solos...so just because he doesn't play dhere dhere in this 1.5 hour recording, does not mean that he never plays it...you know what i mean? such a tabla player as Tafo Khan must have done an amazinggg amount of riyaz..in my opinion there is no way he doesn't play dhere dhere.
Past594 i am by no means trying to categorise tabla to any particular region and i dont think there is any thing such as calcutta tabla, but i do know how great maestros have benchmarked a good tabla player. By no speck of imagination i am trying to show a negative aspect about khan sahib but you have to admitt even being a representative you have to fulfill some basic dimensions of tabla playing like the combination of comosition dexterity and sound balance
Rishloo we can say the same about Pt Samta Prasad or Ustad Shaukat Hussain. We don't really need some specific artistes' names to appreciate the art. We need to learn it for ourselves more than anything else.
Zakir is an excilent acompianist and has a very fluid style amazing peshkars, Chakradas and is a carasmatic performa Tafo and Tari i have not lisernd to as much but they seem to specialise in theka and tihi with fanominal spead volume and clarity. All These players combine technic and heart with incredible skill. kyabat !
just great, but i still believe a good tabla player is a combination of riyaaz(practice) and TALEEM( learning). If you listen to anindo chhaterjee's or pandit shyamal bose's tabla then you ll understand the depth and beuty of this amazing art
I would say no. It is distinct and the range of bols that can be played is increased and sometimes made easier to produce and sometimes not. The other styles which include Khula baaj, Kinaar baaj, and Purbi have their own repertoires and should be respected as such.
BanarsiPaan120 to say that tafo khan never plays dhere dhere would mean that you have seen/heard every single video and recording of his...you can't make judgemenets based on a few videos you watch on youtube...
Zimrang Your The Man Thanks For Telling Them I Agree With You 100% Everyone Bases Tabla On What Zakirji Does Zakirji Probably Is The Best Or One Of The Best But You Cant Judge Tabla Based On What One Man And His Style Are So Ignorant Please Think Before You Leave Dumb Comments
hi. i know that mirasis and different to rababis and other communities. but the we have to realise that the old masters were pure mirasis. we don't get these people anymore
he is very good but the best tabla player is ustad zakir hussien kahn and he is fast and rimpa shiva is a girl who is only a teenager her fingers are fast just take a look at her vids thanx
hi. can i just comment on the "mirasi" statement u just made? the old gharana system was made up by people who practiced music and perform it. it was taught from father to son. these people were mirasi. Nowdays there is no gharana system and therfore no mirasi. plz do not use this word in a derogatory sense. thanks
one of the best tabla players, but who does he plat with? and i herd he challenged ustad zakir hussain, this is gunah(sin), i dont care who u are, dont ever try to challenge ustad zakir hussain... tafo khan is even pakistan's best tabla player.. Mian Shaukat Hussain, subhan-allah!
Ustad g jo kam ap ny kr diya wo kaam na to koi kr skta ha or na hi koi tafu jesi mehnt kr skta ha I love your tabla
This guy puts so much dynamics and emotion in his fast playing. Pay attention to his facial expressions while he is playing. This is briljant!
With due respect I heard Tafo khan many times but a sweetness and softness in tabla is still pending from him. I admire Mian sahab he played much batter than Tafo khan. Dosre alfaaz men jo soft mezaj log hen vo Mian sahab ko hi sunna pasand karte hen is ki bari misaal Khan sb Nusrat Fateh Ali khan k walid ustad Fateh Ali khan sb ki barsi sy pata chalti hy kun k waha hameesha jitna bhi bara function ho mian sb ya un k Shagird Tari khan hi bulaye jaty hen. Kisi ko bura lage to mazrat
Punjab ghrane ke ek he baap ustad tafu khan g wah wah ustad kya baat hai
don´t be mistaken..one of the very best tabla players there is...look to the crowd response..and there is some of the finest players in that crowd! respect!
The crowd's "HAAAAAAA"s really bring the song together.....
Tafo is the wildest ustad i have seen play. My mind cannot wrap itself around this mystical video.
Wah Wah ustaad tafu khan saab g
so many years of listening to this, ooff
I like Ustad Tafo Khans Tihais so much!
Vaa vaaa!! Kya baat hai! Ustad Tafo's speed and clarity is amazing. And he makes it look so effortless.
Everytime I watch this clip, I learn something new!
TAFOO PAKISTANI TABLA KING
I love the audience's responses!
O my God! Never heard any thing like it.
his index finger and pinky have the same amount of strength on the duggi :| immortal.
zakir ji ko unchaa dikhane k liye tafoo ji ko kyu gira rahe ho....u cant say like this to his thousands of hours practice and dedication to mintain this much speed and creating different style of playing................. although zakir ji is my favourite also....but tafoo is also unique and senior most tabla player.........u can see 'zakir with tafoo' recording on youtube.........zakir ji like to sit with the feet of tafoo and in every moment zakir ji is appreciting the tabla of tafoo..........
The main reason for Zakir ji sitting in his feet because he is guru Bhai of ustad allah rakha Khan 🙏
Great artists , rather artists of this level never compare or hate each other. They admire each other & learn from their contemporaries.
this is mujra tabla
This Player (Ten Fingers Tafo) I shall call him with respect; has the One thing that makes him stand out from a very large crowd (In Tabla Players) and thats ORIGINALITY ! Only good tabla players should be allowed to comment here as it is only they who can appreciate him with understanding. Thanks for the clip.
ye video delet mt krna bhai ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Mashallah usatd ji
Wow man. Ustad Tafo rocks man. Dus Ungliyon Ka Tabla is all I have to say.
yeas i have this video he is one of the best in the tabla business looool My fav is Ustad Tari
Tabla has so many styles. I think it is the only instrument is the world which is very comprehensive. He is playing really very nice.
worlds FASTEST,,,,TABLA PLAYER EVERRRRRR
he is the most ''tayyar'' tablia of this era nobody can match his pace on both dayan and bayan but perhaps lacks abit of musicality that is why my favourite is Tari sahib he is great
Wah Wah Ustaad g
One of the greatest Punjab style Tabliyas was the late Ustad Bashir Hussain Goga. He played thematically but could do so at blazing speeds. You can easily find an mp3 of his music on the web. judge for yourselves.
Wow this is different style of solo. The Peskhkar is coming only at 9:12
incredible dugga technique!!
The tihai that starts at around 2:05 is one of the best I've seen. Really cool playing.
Also, the mishra jati kayada he plays later (tak dhin tak) is almost impossible to play that fast. I wonder how he does it.
The "ten fingers baaj" is a subset of one of the many silsilas of the Punjab style. There are many sub-styles within the Punjab style but having said that, it is still tough to compare this style to the others.
truly divine
Tafo khan means a maestro for only those who understand tabla as he is matchless even today. Match his speed, accuracy, continuity, rhythm, variety and then comment negatively as most of the Indians do. Please point out technically the fault in his Qaida, Gath, Theka, Rela, Tukra, Tirkit, Dhirdhir or Tehaee. Khali khooli bakwas nahi please!
Thank you so much for posting this clip , this is awsome !
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan chorus singer Nafees Ahmad also in the audience.
punjab and qasur
ustad tafo ji's tabla..actually is very complex...n does not lack anyhting..he made his style so that it is hard to copy..u see many tabla players copying many of ustad zakir husssain ji's pieces..but tafo khan ji's in my opinion r harder to copy..very complex finger movement style...
supper heavy weight undisputed he can take anybody head on man like him born in centuries
this guy is the most fastest table player, awesome....Speed: Tafo khan variety : Zakir Hussain verstality: tari khan.
the people at 4:04 scared me !!! really gud Tabla playing by Ustad !!!
Ah wah ji wah
I must have listened to it twenty times over las few years.
Ustad tafo Khan also was shishya of Qadir Baksh likh Ustad Allah Rakha
love u tafu saab jeete rahoo
He is a mastermind with Chakradars!
ustad tafu khan is the best fastest player. wow!
it dont matter who comes first they all have their own talent in what they play and style so you cannot judge who is the bestest !
Extremely talented person
The Reale king of Tabla
compoitions are to be played at a speed wherby its aesthetic value is preseved.i hav my reservation about tafobhai.
His fingers are just like crazy butterflies, this is a wonderful bouquet of relas.
Pity that many guys in the audience make "WAH !" at some wrong moments...They should appreciate the music instead of waiting for the sam to shout "WAAAHHH !" to look good at the camera.
pundit nayan ghosh-listen to his solo -greatest solo player.
Amejin
I'm reading bunch of fools commenting here as a great ustads while they are forgetting becoming a great maestro of any instrument or singer beside God gifted talent, hard work humility and love, respect among them and before them is essential and through those qualities they have attain their fame.
you watch any of these maestros interviews they never talk ill of other greats regardless of other greats style geographical background or language.
"Ba Adab ba naseeb bey adab bey naseeb"
actually it is the farukhhabad gharana and the present khalifa is sutad sabir khan. As most of the artists of this gharana stayed in calcutta for a long time like masit khan, karamutullah khan ahmad jaan thirakwa, gyan prakash ghosh shyamal bose and shankar ghosh, people believe it is the calcutta style.
He had great tihais... But style is eccentric
This style requires the use of more fingers but not all of them. But still, his style is very hard and deserves all music lovers' respect.
Rimpa Shiv is like lightning.
yep..totally agree with bhilaj ji..
Tafo Khan learned the "Ten Finger Style" from Haji Fida Hussain. but does anyone know who invented it?
not seen many left handed tabla players till now...btw thnx fr sharing
A quick note: This is not Ustad Tafo's own invented style. His guru, Ustad Ghulam Hussain Khan Jullandhari, invented the ten finger tabla style. He taught his son, Ustad Faryaad Hussain Khan and Ustad Tafo. Listen to Ustad Faryaad Hussain's CD. Ustad Faryaad was just as good as Ustad Tafo but more modest.
Ustad Tafo Khan is superb but I don't understand why people are taking the name of the style "ten finger baaj" so literally. He plays his duggi with four fingers and the tabla with 3 fingers plus the pinky once in a while. The thumbs are still used as counterweights to produce strong bols.
@Mega8828 sure I'll b eagerly waitin' for that... bt hav U tried these compositions Urself??
some of you nay sayers here have no awareness, this clip is very old, hence th edrab harmonium, but its a "TABLA SOLO" not harmonium solo. those guys saying wha are expressing their DELIGHT at anytime!>> that's how it is in India, pakistan
none of them are the fastest tabla players, they got their own abilities and style
I have the audio recording of this solo as well, but what i meant to say was that this is just one of Tafo Khan's solos...so just because he doesn't play dhere dhere in this 1.5 hour recording, does not mean that he never plays it...you know what i mean? such a tabla player as Tafo Khan must have done an amazinggg amount of riyaz..in my opinion there is no way he doesn't play dhere dhere.
Would you mind posting the full recording if you have it?
Interesting... harly see their fingers moving, whilswt they r playing.
Past594 i am by no means trying to categorise tabla to any particular region and i dont think there is any thing such as calcutta tabla, but i do know how great maestros have benchmarked a good tabla player. By no speck of imagination i am trying to show a negative aspect about khan sahib but you have to admitt even being a representative you have to fulfill some basic dimensions of tabla playing like the combination of comosition dexterity and sound balance
o nevermind i found it. Lala Ghulam Hussain started the "Ten Finger Style". he was also Ustad "Bhulli" Khan's teacher
Tottally Crazy.... Khan sahb where do u come from??? I've seen this video for years, still cant grasp it. He's a huge land mark in Tabla....
Subhan Allaah
Ghulam Jafar
yea i would agree... as far as speed goes.ustad rafiuddin sabri can play a kick ass dehli kinar style...(if that makes sense).lol
How fast. He does impossible relas. Kya Baat Hai.
well put.
@ChadC919 Not chalk. It's powder and yes, it is to absorb the moisture from the hand.
I find it hard to believe he couldn't accompany. According to the Sardarang website, he composes music for films too.
Rishloo we can say the same about Pt Samta Prasad or Ustad Shaukat Hussain. We don't really need some specific artistes' names to appreciate the art. We need to learn it for ourselves more than anything else.
Zakir is an excilent acompianist and has a very fluid style amazing peshkars, Chakradas and is a carasmatic performa
Tafo and Tari i have not lisernd to as much but they seem to specialise in theka and tihi with fanominal spead volume and clarity. All These players combine technic and heart with incredible skill. kyabat !
@Mega8828 so plz giv a performance of ur's and show Ustad Tafo JI's style wid same accuracy.!!!!
tabla is always played with two hands but the way tafoo is playing it looks as if he is playing tabla with four hands
to theandead -yea man god invented da 10 finger style together with the 2 finger style.
faizrythun- bro,NO ONE IS INDISPENSIBLE.
just great, but i still believe a good tabla player is a combination of riyaaz(practice) and TALEEM( learning). If you listen to anindo chhaterjee's or pandit shyamal bose's tabla then you ll understand the depth and beuty of this amazing art
i guess the lady with the sunglasses already knew bout style wayyyy back then...
I would say no. It is distinct and the range of bols that can be played is increased and sometimes made easier to produce and sometimes not. The other styles which include Khula baaj, Kinaar baaj, and Purbi have their own repertoires and should be respected as such.
@Mega8828 do U hav any vdo's on CZcams?
kyabatae!!!!
are you referring your comment to me? or Ustad Tafo..
BanarsiPaan120 to say that tafo khan never plays dhere dhere would mean that you have seen/heard every single video and recording of his...you can't make judgemenets based on a few videos you watch on youtube...
Zimrang Your The Man Thanks For Telling Them I Agree With You 100% Everyone Bases Tabla On What Zakirji Does Zakirji Probably Is The Best Or One Of The Best But You Cant Judge Tabla Based On What One Man And His Style Are So Ignorant Please Think Before You Leave Dumb Comments
hi. i know that mirasis and different to rababis and other communities. but the we have to realise that the old masters were pure mirasis. we don't get these people anymore
he is very good but the best tabla player is ustad zakir hussien kahn and he is fast and rimpa shiva is a girl who is only a teenager her fingers are fast just take a look at her vids thanx
Wow...another level...i'm speechless
He should be tested for steroids!
i dont know anybody as fast as him
hello pajji, where can i get a copy of the audio??? if so, wat is the title name of the cassette??? thank you
@prabalsingh1980 yes..people speak here like they would play tabla better..and yet they couldnt just keep the taal..fools
hey i would actually like to see that. kind of curious what that would look like. Afterall some people think ustad tafo is a crazy bastard.
is "ten finger style playing" really comparable...with others that are not....????
hi. can i just comment on the "mirasi" statement u just made? the old gharana system was made up by people who practiced music and perform it. it was taught from father to son. these people were mirasi. Nowdays there is no gharana system and therfore no mirasi. plz do not use this word in a derogatory sense. thanks
one of the best tabla players, but who does he plat with?
and i herd he challenged ustad zakir hussain, this is gunah(sin), i dont care who u are, dont ever try to challenge ustad zakir hussain...
tafo khan is even pakistan's best tabla player.. Mian Shaukat Hussain, subhan-allah!