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by abdullahkhalids 2229 days ago
Actually, you don't do those things at the same time. The finger thing is mostly for clarifying the beat patterns before you start playing. On the Tabla, or actually in Northern Indian music, you do things like play a 27 beat bar and a 16 beat bar at the same time, and pseudo merging back on the 80th beat (16x4 and 27x3-1).