[rapid drumbeats] (spiegel) the tabla drums are actually a set.s two drums or individually called tabla, baya. together it's called tabla. it's made--the right-hand drum is the tabla-- and it's the pitch drum-- the high-pitch drum. the left hand, the baya, is the bass drum. the skin is held on by use of this camel strap, and these wooden blocks are put in to increase or decrease tension. the farther down you hit them, the tighter the skin gets, the higher the tone goes. by pushing on the baya, we are able to get different tones and modulate the tones. [thumping sounds ranging from low to high pitch] strike it with the first two fingers for what they call the open sound. and for the closed sound, it's a flat hand slap. some sounds together would be [imitating drum sound] ta...din. small phrases-- di-di, di-di, da-ga, te-tay, te-di-gi-di, di-gi-di, da. da-ti-gi-ti, dig-in-na, da. [ensemble plays accented by the tabla] it's a very difficult instrument to master, and i still haven't mastered it. i'm an artist and i'm a performer, a professional musici

(spiegel) in india, it's called the guru-sishya parampara-- the teacher/student tradition-- where the god. my musical hero was alla rakha who i had listened to on many recordings. i had no money, but i would go and meet him and sleep on the floor of his hotel and take care of errands and help out with driving, cooking, shopping, cleaning, anything. and when he felt like it, he would teach me. these lessons were not formal. he never wrote anything down for me. in fact, i never sat in front of him with drums. he only would recite compositions to me, and i was expected to remember them and, at a later time, write them down. (das gupta) in our instrumental music, you have to gather the ability or acquire the ability of singing whatever you are playing. the teacher can say to you, "here's a theme, "gi-ni-da, da-ga-da-da, da-ga-da, kae-na-ga-da, da-ga-na-da, di-ni-di-ni-da." and then you recite back to him, gi-ni-da, da-ga-da-da, da-ga-da, kae-na-ga-da, da-ga-na-da, di-ni-di-ni-da. ♪ ah-ma-nei-za, ma-ma-nei-za, ♪ ♪ nei-pa-ba-lama-lama- ba-lama-nei-za. ♪ you have to reproduce. [plays same pi

. >> barbara spiegel heads torrington's susan b. project for victims of sexual and physical abuse. she worries about the impact for accusers. >> the focus is on the girls, as if whatever went on here was their fault. and i think the focus needs to be on the perpetrators. alleged perpetrators. >> reporter: as for all the social media chatter, area parents just shake their heads. >> i don't think they've stopped to consider the lives that they're hurting. >> i don't think it's appropriate for kids to be expressing their thoughts on something that either they know very little about or they're just not mature enough to make rational decisions. >> and susan candiotti joins me now live, susan. you've had a chance to talk to one of the attorneys, for one of these suspects, specifically about the viral attacks since these alleged crimes. what's the attorney saying about these attacks? >> reporter: that's right, ashleigh. well, first of all, both of the defendants, the 18-year-olds in this case, have pleaded not guilty, and one of them denie

the president an ceo of seimens live joins us, eric spiegel. >> i really do.hompson. we're going to do a bit of change in audible. i really dread this. there's an exclusive report that says a chinese firm is on their way to the u.s. to do what? i've heard enough now! we're going to talk habit that. >>> take a look at this. it could be another record day for the markets. the all time day high, 1576. so we're seeing if we can close in on na today. energy, telecom are leading us higher. let's get a market flash with josh lipton. >> hey there, simon. check out mgm. this is already the biggest shareholder, owns 18.6%. now tracinda has filed to buy more. they will point to a rebound in the list. including big names. jaun paulson. up about 4% right now. >> our senior economic reporter steve liesman is at a manufacturing plant in georgia where jack lee will be visiting today. steve joins us now with a first time interview with the ceo. steve? >> melissa, thanks very much. i am in alpharetta, georgia, where jack lou will be. we have the president of siemens corporation

you know, when they revalued the reinvestment act and the -- what is it -- the spiegel act, they ran into trouble because it allows for people to have housing that they normally would not have. so when these two issues hit, the loss of homes, people are losing jobs expediently. with the sequestering, which normally applies to physics -- you have the idea that we are going to separate and allow this to come forward, it is just terrible. host: thanks for your call. tonya is next, calling from new york. go ahead, tonya. caller: hello? i just wanted to say that both republicans and democrats need to get together and solve this issue. it doesn't make sense for the republican congressman to beast standing there and say -- to be standing there and saying things without talking to each other. the problem is we are not talking to each other. with all the press going on, it is not -- with all the cuts going on, it is not only affecting the military. every department needs to say how this will affect them. yes, the military is important, but taking care of our own, the american people, is also