This is a long sample of me hitting, scratching and rolling all sorts of stones against one another, somewhere in the moroccan desert. The sounds are pretty good quality, recorded with a sony pcm-d50.
A short example of a short theka in adi taala (a cycle of 8 beats) on mridangam and konnakol (oral percussion). The mridangam strokes are played along with the corresponding solkattu (onomatopoeic syllables of the mridangam strokes) said aloud.