# Tabla

Skill · Music and Audio Production

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/tabla

The tabla is a pair of hand drums central to Hindustani (North Indian) classical music, consisting of a smaller wooden drum (dayan) and a larger metal or clay drum (bayan). Played with the fingers and palms, it produces a wide range of tones and is used both as a solo instrument and as rhythmic accompaniment for vocalists, instrumentalists, and dancers. Learning tabla involves mastering bols (spoken rhythmic syllables) and complex time cycles called talas.

Related skills: [Raga Music](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/raga-music), [Harmonium](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/harmonium)

## Open roles requiring Tabla (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.