Ive been playing guitar for a while now and I'm primarily self taught. I learned from talking to people who know more than me, reading articles,
watching videos, research, and practice, practice, practice. For some reason I percieve the Oud to be a more complex instrument with not many sources
to help in learning how to play one, although I've heard Oud is easier if you're coming from a guitar background. Do you guys recommend lessons? Are
there any self-taught players on here? What did you use to learn?
true playing the oud became simpler to me after I spent 8 years learning classical guitar with private teachers and in music high schools. In fact i
started very late with the oud, and evrything I learnt in guitar helped and conversely, the oud technics helped me improve mu guitar playing: you need
first to spot what is common, and that is the theory(writting of music, triolte, sextolets, tremolos, ...) and the hands, relaxed wrists mainly, and
the use of the plector( Richa).In the case of the oud, you beat the strings by first lifting your right hand, you must make sure you hit both strings
down and up, and as for the guitar, regularity is the "queen" up/down:up down for hours on the AJAM maqam first but you need someone to help, good
luck, faria
-Sam |
