Welcome to the first Facebook Dhol Challenge!

To make sure you have followed all the rules for the challenges, check them out here.

The first challenge for October – we would like to see a video of a dhol player who is able to play the first 26 seconds of the introduction of Mann Doabe Da – Tigerstyle.

If you watch the video below, it is the introduction from 00:04 – 00:30.

If you haven’t already added How to Play Dhol on Facebook make sure you do so here.

Remember, you MUST follow the format of the title when you post it up on Facebook otherwise you will not be considered.

We will be taking responses to the challenge UNTIL 15th October.

Make sure you read over the rules again and good luck to all who participate!

So check it out fellow dholi’s, who thinks that they can play some seriously sick beats?

I want to let you, the users, decide who can play the best so here’s the deal…

- Every fortnight / month we will be creating a challenge for the dhol community (the challenge can range from repeating a simple beat, putting a dhol beat on top of a song)

- It’s open to anyone who wants to participate. All you need to do, is upload a video of you carrying out the challenge on your dhol and upload it on facebook. Make sure you tag ‘How to Play Dhol’ (the facebook user) on your video

- The winner will be determined by a mixture of the following criteria..

a) Number of facebook ‘likes’ / thumbsup on the video (Tip: There is no limit to how many people you want to tag)

b) Number of positive comments

c) Quality and clarity of the actual dhol playing

Condition and rules you need to follow:

a) Responses to the challenge must be appropriately titled when the video is uploaded onto facebook. Title will follow the format ‘(Yourname’s) Response to the Howtoplaydhol.com (month) Challenge ‘ whereby month relates to the month of the challenge and ‘yourname’ is the name of the individual who’s video response it is.

So if Gary uploads his response to the October challenge, the title of the response will read…

Gary’s Response to the Howtoplaydhol.com October Challenge

Make sense?

b) The only thing talking in the video will be your dhol. Feel free to smile or wink at the camera, but we will not consider any videos whereby the responder talks. (We want percussion not vocals! ).

The winner of the competition will get publicly recognised & their video posted up on the howtoplaydhol.com site as well as some serious respect and kudos from the community.

The first challenge is on its way and may be out by the first of October!!!!

Stay tuned and get ready for an exciting month