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Dhere Dhere

Also spelled: Dhera Dhera, Dheradhera

A rolling two-hand figure — paired closed strokes with bass, cycling as continuous texture.

Further reading

  • Rohit M. Ananthanarayana, Amitrajit Bhattacharjee and Preeti Rao, "Four-way Classification of Tabla Strokes," TISMIR (2023).

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