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[*] posted on 4-5-2004 at 10:17 AM
Fingerstyle


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Does anybody here play the oud with their fingers instead of using a risha? I know Naseer Shamma and Abadi do from time to time, especially when they're playing rasgueado. What experiences have you all had - would you adapt classical guitar technique, would you use nails or the flesh of the fingertip, etc.?

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[*] posted on 4-5-2004 at 10:53 AM


>Does anybody here play the oud with >their fingers instead of using a risha?

I do but that is as you said from time to time. I'm not much for rasgueado - I use a bourdon technique and also an alternation between risha and finger when playing tremolo ( you need to be fast -listen to Bashir's Al Hamra). I play with the flesh but sometimes strumming with the nails.




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[*] posted on 4-6-2004 at 02:28 AM


Thanks for that, Ronny. Can you explain what you mean by bourdon technique? I'm familiar with lute and guitar finger styles, but that one's new to me I'm afraid.

I'm primarily a lute player who's getting more and more into the oud - I suppose when you go back to early medieval Europe, the two were pretty much the same. Now the lute, which started off being played with a plectrum (risha) in the middle ages ended up being played exclusively with the fingers. I was wondering whether there are (or have been) any similar tendencies in oud playing. Of course lute music is polyphonic and therefore must be played with the fingers, but I've heard a lot of oud music (the Bashirs for example) that's sometimes, if not fully polyphonic, at least chordal.

I'm going off on a tangent here, but exactly how much is known about the oud, its technique and its music in pre-modern times?

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[*] posted on 4-6-2004 at 11:40 AM


>Thanks for that, Ronny. Can you explain what you mean by bourdon technique? I'm familiar with lute and guitar >finger styles, but that one's new to me I'm afraid.

Listen to this sound file:Finger I play here with the fingers in the Bashir style - what we call for bourdon (drone?).

In the 20th century have some players used the left hand ¨basm¨ (not like Shamma) but it seems the right hand finger plucking has its origin in the guitar.
Bashir studied for Segovia.

I'm going off on a tangent here, but exactly how much is known about the oud, its technique and its music in pre-modern times?

This is a question for ûdi Daniel! To bad that he's gone up in smoke or stays inside an egg somewhere....... ûdi where are you?




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[*] posted on 4-6-2004 at 06:30 PM
Wow


That was very cool Ronny!

How about hearing some more of your playing?




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[*] posted on 4-6-2004 at 07:19 PM
Bashir's Al Hamra


Hello
Can anyone post Bashir's Al Hamra, ive never heard it.
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[*] posted on 4-7-2004 at 01:37 AM


Yes, that was some impressive stuff, Ronny. Answered my question too.
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[*] posted on 4-7-2004 at 09:56 AM


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Hello
Can anyone post Bashir's Al Hamra, ive never heard it.
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Oudman, I could but the file is over 7mb.
This composition was released last year on a recording called ¨The Stockholm Recordings¨ from 1983¨. I have it on tape together with Maqam Bashiri from a broadcast 1983.
Maybe Mike can help us? I love to play it and it's interesting for the technique!




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[*] posted on 4-7-2004 at 10:27 AM


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Originally posted by chuckerbutty
Yes, that was some impressive stuff, Ronny. Answered my question too.


Many thanks I really appreciate it!!
I wish to add that my Iraqi tuning on my oud makes it very suitable for this type of compositions. From low to top C D g c f F. so normally is the C the drone.

Yes Lee, I'll post some more from my own compositions and Bashir before I get it up on my own site.




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[*] posted on 4-7-2004 at 02:26 PM
Dnt forget the KING


guys, if u want to hear a good ous playing with fingers instead of risha, listen to Farido in "La wa aynaeek" :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:



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[*] posted on 4-7-2004 at 03:02 PM


Hey Chuckerbutty,

Elrabee3 made a good call to direct you to Farid's intro to Law Eyneyki. You can hear it on this thread. Scroll down just past halfway.

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[*] posted on 4-7-2004 at 09:22 PM
Figers on the oud


I live near a famous musician named David Lindley. He has been showing me a technique that he uses to play blues. It is real cool and I love it I will try to post a clip!!!
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[*] posted on 4-8-2004 at 02:54 AM


Cheers elrabee3 and Mike for pointing that one out. Another interesting example of fingerstyle.

Have you heard the passage in Hiwar bayn al-Mutanabbi wa as-Sayyab where Naseer Shamma doubles the melody an octave lower? Amazed me when I first heard it.

Rufi, I can't say I've ever heard the blues played on an oud, I'm intrigued now.
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