Drum Training
Type
Audio
Change log
Authors
Riley-Smith, Tristram
Abstract
A chant of a drum sequence called Deo Layagu.
Description
Naresh visits again this morning. More v interesting info learnt. I persuade him to chant one of the drum sequences he’s learnt, which I tape: called Deo Layagu it is to be played outside a shrine (as opposed to the longer “Chore” which is played on processions through the town). I try to quiz him on different sounds and their relation to different beats: “khin” and “kha” refer to striking the drum with a stick as held in the left hand; “Ta” = a slap with the right hand with fingers splayed open (on one point of drum face – Naresh can’t remember whether it’s at the centre or the side); while “NURRA” refers to a finger run (a 4-hit tattoo using index finger first through to little finger last).
Keywords
Drumming, Vocalised Drumming, Nepal, Nepalese, Patan, Buddhist, Oral Tradition, Oral Literature, Linguistic Anthropology, Newari
Is Part Of
Publisher
World Oral Literature Project