Shen has studied Benares Gharana tabla with great devotion under his Guru-ji of tabla, Pt. Kaviraj Ashutosh Bhattacharya, a senior disciple of the great Pt. Kanthe Maharaj, since 1994. After his Guru-ji's passing in Feb 2004 he has continued his study with senior disciples of Guru-ji. Shen spends parts of each year in Japan, Australia and Varanasi, performing and teaching tabla. In all three countries, Shen has a number of tabla students, some of whom have gone on to study in Varanasi with Shen's guru-ji of tabla, Late Pt. Kaviraj Ashutosh Bhattacharya and in the music school which continues in his name. In Brisbane he recently opened the Ashu Babu Memorial Tabla School, with both adult and children's classes. Shen's lessons follow his Guru-ji's traditional classical style of teaching, emphasising quality of sound, refinement of hand-shape and development of technique and through devoted practice. Shen also supplies and repairs tabla and tabla accessories.