 His style has been characterized as smooth and dignified, with deliberate and rhythmical phrasing.His personal repertoire came from his Bessarabian roots and the influences of Jewish and Gypsy (Roma) music.Zev Feldman has credited Tarras with not only "Bessarabianizing" Jewish dance music, but also with replacing what had been the dominant tune style of the freylekh with the Bulgar.