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 "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.
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.
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...
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"
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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 !
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
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.
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
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
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
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. 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
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!
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...
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!
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
The crowd's "HAAAAAAA"s really bring the song together.....
Vaa vaaa!! Kya baat hai! Ustad Tafo's speed and clarity is amazing. And he makes it look so effortless.
Tafo is the wildest ustad i have seen play. My mind cannot wrap itself around this mystical video.
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
I like Ustad Tafo Khans Tihais so much!
Everytime I watch this clip, I learn something new!
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!
I love the audience's responses!
O my God! Never heard any thing like it.
Wah Wah ustaad tafu khan saab g
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
ye video delet mt krna bhai ❤️❤️❤️❤️
yeas i have this video he is one of the best in the tabla business looool My fav is Ustad Tari
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.
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.
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
Wow man. Ustad Tafo rocks man. Dus Ungliyon Ka Tabla is all I have to say.
worlds FASTEST,,,,TABLA PLAYER EVERRRRRR
his index finger and pinky have the same amount of strength on the duggi :| immortal.
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 "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.
supper heavy weight undisputed he can take anybody head on man like him born in centuries
Thank you so much for posting this clip , this is awsome !
Ah wah ji wah
I must have listened to it twenty times over las few years.
truly divine
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.
incredible dugga technique!!
this guy is the most fastest table player, awesome....Speed: Tafo khan variety : Zakir Hussain verstality: tari khan.
so many years of listening to this, ooff
Wow this is different style of solo. The Peskhkar is coming only at 9:12
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...
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 !
Super ustadji
Mashallah usatd ji
ustad tafu khan is the best fastest player. wow!
the people at 4:04 scared me !!! really gud Tabla playing by Ustad !!!
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"
Wah Wah Ustaad g
The Reale king of Tabla
Ustad tafo Khan also was shishya of Qadir Baksh likh Ustad Allah Rakha
love u tafu saab jeete rahoo
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan chorus singer Nafees Ahmad also in the audience.
He is a mastermind with Chakradars!
Extremely talented person
compoitions are to be played at a speed wherby its aesthetic value is preseved.i hav my reservation about tafobhai.
TAFOO PAKISTANI TABLA KING
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!
Tafo Khan learned the "Ten Finger Style" from Haji Fida Hussain. but does anyone know who invented it?
@Mega8828 sure I'll b eagerly waitin' for that... bt hav U tried these compositions Urself??
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Interesting... harly see their fingers moving, whilswt they r playing.
punjab and qasur
Amejin
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....
yep..totally agree with bhilaj ji..
not seen many left handed tabla players till now...btw thnx fr sharing
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
Rimpa Shiv is like lightning.
@ChadC919 Not chalk. It's powder and yes, it is to absorb the moisture from the hand.
He had great tihais... But style is eccentric
o nevermind i found it. Lala Ghulam Hussain started the "Ten Finger Style". he was also Ustad "Bhulli" Khan's teacher
@Mega8828 so plz giv a performance of ur's and show Ustad Tafo JI's style wid same accuracy.!!!!
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
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.
How fast. He does impossible relas. Kya Baat Hai.
none of them are the fastest tabla players, they got their own abilities and style
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 !
I find it hard to believe he couldn't accompany. According to the Sardarang website, he composes music for films too.
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
well put.
It is SO close but I would say:
1) Utd. Zakir Hussain
2) Utd. Tafo Khan
3) Utd. Tari Khan
All are such fantastically mind-blowing tabla players!
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.
are you referring your comment to me? or Ustad Tafo..
tabla is always played with two hands but the way tafoo is playing it looks as if he is playing tabla with four hands
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
to theandead -yea man god invented da 10 finger style together with the 2 finger style.
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
@Mega8828 do U hav any vdo's on RUclips?
hello pajji, where can i get a copy of the audio??? if so, wat is the title name of the cassette??? thank you
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
i guess the lady with the sunglasses already knew bout style wayyyy back then...
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
faizrythun- bro,NO ONE IS INDISPENSIBLE.
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
kyabatae!!!!
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!
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.
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...
is "ten finger style playing" really comparable...with others that are not....????
@prabalsingh1980 yes..people speak here like they would play tabla better..and yet they couldnt just keep the taal..fools