Maqam of the month

Hey guys, I'd really like to get the maqam of the month post going again. It's very helpful to beginner players such as myself and I get a collection of some pretty cool recordings . It would be great if one of the more experienced members could get us started by picking a maqam. Last time, the maqam was nahawand. Thanx in advance

I dont have anything to post, BUT!!!Hijaz has always been one of my favorites. Maybe it can be on that maqam

Great, Hijaz sounds good to me. I guess I will take some intiative and say that Hijaz is the Maqam of the month. Please everybody, if you just have 2 minutes, submit your own recording. ( don't make me look bad here ) This is a great opportunity for all of us to improve and learn from each other. I will hopefully have my recording up by Thursday.

listen to my playing

Here is my offering for this post. I hope this will encourage people to submit their recordings. I also hope to get some comments on how to improve my playing.
Enjoy ( or not )

its not working for me

revaldo29 I beleieve people don't post taqsims
here because there's another topic in the
forum ,it's an old topic
which truepharaoh has opened and
has many taqsims from people in here.
I posted this reply with respect to your topic.
regards.

Thanks for the reply bluesy. I don't know if you are talking about the maqam of the month post, but if you are, that was posted on the main page. I don't think there is a dedicated section for recordings (correct me if i'm wrong).
Bahleh, welcome back. Congratulations on your new oud. It sounds great. Thanx for posting a sound clip, I hope others will too.
About my recording, is it working for anyone at all? David, if it's just you, I can email it to you cause I can't post anything bigger than 1 meg on here.
I look forward to hearing some more recordings soon. Thanx

Any body else want to develop the maqam Hijaz as a song or Taqsim?
I ran accross this thread and... it didnt go too far even tho maqam hijaz is an important maqam. Iam going to prepare a taqasim of my own too and
Hopefully everyone will join this time.
Iam pumped for this one... its about time we hear some oud being played on the forrums.

Hijaz - botagaz

Hello guys,

It's been a long while since we all shared a maqam.

I hope everybody joins in.

Here is my share played on my 1995 Fathi Amin Long neck oud.

Here it is

Jameel - kind as always

Nice Emad.. really nice. Could it be that mr. Ashmawy get's his ouds produced by Ustaz Amin?
It would seem a little hard to hold in the pictures is it?
I will get my post ready latter on today.

Adnan.. I dug it up far far into the abyss of posts but now that its back its going to be the shoot

Thank you Samir,

Nice Tagsim Sydney. Very classic. Mixed between Riyath Al-Sonbaty and Freed Al-Atrash and your own .........

My take on hijaz

Here's my take on Maqam hijaz.
A small taqasim
Iam loving this thread now that its back!! whohoo!!
I cant wait to hear everyone else!!

Taqassim Hijaz

That was nice Adnan. You can truly hear the difference between your playing here and the one above. Iam trying to get sharper more precise notes when I play up the fingerboard. Iam sure you notice where Iam rather off tone when I played the really high notes up my fingerboard.
The main problem is when I look up the maqam Iam playing in first then I figure out the notes down the neck on my c string. but when in a taqasim you never know wich maqam comes next so I get the intervals messed up. Especialy when doing the verry fast farid al atrache part when he finishes the Awal hamza taqasim.

Hijaz Andalus

Go Lee Go .. Go Lee Go

Jonathan,

I won't fake it ... You do have what it takes to become a good oud player. You play music within your culture and that is great. I like your playing mate.

Rast

No thanks necessary my friend. Tell you what ... next time you make the music bed and I'll play the taqsim. But first you have to teach me to play like that

Regards,

Greg

Lovely Emad...why haven't we featured you on the MP3 page yet?

Mike,

I am so thankfull for being a member in this great forums. I never dared to dream of anything better than this.

Your kind words mean a lot to me Mike. Thanks heaps.

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Hey Greg,

You know I'd share with you anything I know or have. Thanks for your kindness mate.

sorry guys I was away for the long-weekend holiday of Queen Victoria. I just got back in time to listen to this wonderfull Rast taqasim.
Well Done Emad. Verry expressive playing indeed.
I loved it. Iam going to try and get something up.
Hopefully Jameel will join in too.

Thank you fine people

Azama ala Azama!

Man, I have to say, you all just keep amazing me. I have a folder on my home computer that has a collection of all the files that various forum players have posted throughout the last few years, and it's nice to go back and listen sometimes to how great some of you guys are, and how rapidly some of the players have progressed.

From Mike's page on Farid...

"So, if I want to talk about Farid el-Atrache, I would present his songs, his compositions, and his music. That will speak for Farid el-Atrache."

Sometimes, we get so caught up in discussions and debates (...sometimes, arguments), and we forget that what speaks for us, as for Farid el-Atrache, is the music.

I've learned much about Jameel, for example, from the taqsims he's posted throughout the years. Yes, I read of you (Jameel) as the oud maker (and what an oud maker at that!), and I hear of who you are as a person through your playing. Quite the taqsim, my friend. You never fail to amaze me. I must say, I like that introduction at 0:33 - 0:47. I went back to listen to it as I'm typing this, and if I wasn't sitting in a computer lab right now, I'd shout Allah aleik! 3:15 - 3:22, nice tribute.

Emad, I really like that move at 0:21, where you repeat the notes. Very dramatic and thoughtful. You're quite the player, and each time I hear something new from you, I remember why I felt that urge once-upon-a-time to make that page for you, which you've so gratefully mentioned so often, and though I haven't been there to say "don't mention it" every time, I wish to say so now, as well as "you're most deservent of that and more." By the way, 4:00 - 4:10, nice tribute as well.

Jonathan... I don't know what to say for you. The only thing greater than hearing you play is watching you play. The feeling becomes visible. You, no doubt, have a huge amount of feeling in you as evidenced in that bass hit at 0:49. Keep up the great work, my friend, and I hope to see you (and hear) you soon.

I apologize if I didn't get to the other players, though I undoubtedly will in time. I want to write personalized ones for each of you, but as I was typing, only the posts on this page appeared. I will get back to the first page soon. Adnan, Samir, and Lee, I will get to it.

And just a general comment for you, Samir, as I think you post more consistently in terms of sound files than the rest of us... I've heard you since you began to play and I hear you now. My goodness man, what progress. Hats off to you.

Everyone, keep up the great work! You're all quite inspiring to me. I am humbled by you.

TP21

So... to continue from the previous post...

Samir, I was just listening to that Hijaz one posted above. I like the section from 1:14 to 1:16, very soulful. I wish we could hear more of the 2:03-2:07 section. Seems like you got an idea... no, a feeling, and that was quite the feeling. Please elaborate.

Lee... what can I say, man. 0:17... what a move! I've listened now to it maybe 6 or 7 times, and I hear new expression in it every time. You're something else, my friend. Your feelings of expression are only paralleled by the (unparalleled) love for the music that I've seen from you.

Revaldo... I have another file of you playing some "noodling" around on the oud. And now I hear this stuff from you. I think everyone will agree here that you've been practicing a great deal (inti bet zaker men warana wala eih??)... and it's paid off. Continue down this road, and you'll just keep surprising us every time.

I wish I had more words to say what I wish about you all and your music. Maybe... thank you.

TP21

P.S. I hope I don't come off as a judge (or a jerk, for that matter) by stating what I've said above. I just enjoy listening to you all!

You are not wrong there Jameel

Jameel's is 100% right we owe you TP bigtime. You really put the life in the forrums. This thread is going to be amazing. I can see it play out.
Thank you Emad... you gave me a lot of advice and Iam trying to follow them. I greatly apreciate what you did for me.
Adnan your too much buddy!! I cant wait to hear you play even with new strings your going to sound killer. Actualy I didnt think too highly of this new post of mine but I'll take the compliment.
And your soo right about the TP videos... they were off the hook.
Keep this going people..

Uhh, why'd you guys stop?!?!

Quote:

Originally posted by TruePharaoh21 Uhh, why'd you guys stop?!?!

Jonathan,

I am really touched by what you said about our good friend TP21. It goes to show how respectfull person you are. Good on you mate.

TP21,

Well .. It can not get better than that brother. I guess you know by now how valuable you are.

I am sure your knowledge of taqseem will be usefull not only to Jonathan but also to many other members.

So please hit us with a Good rast taqseem. a "fall off your chair" brand

You guys are too much.

I will try to get a Rast taqsim up as soon as I can. I put new strings on one of my ouds that I have yet to ever post a recording for, so once they settle, I'll do what I can.

Talk about pressure...

TP21

No ... Talking about Pleasure

TP... and everyone else? where is your Rast Taqasim.
This thread restarted so nicely lets not let it go down again.
Common Fellas... Its time to rest the keyboard a little and dust off that oud.

I've been too busy building to play anything (I'm pretty rusty anyway, and not much of a player to begin with), so here's something from one of my favorite oudists. He's a forum member, so that counts....

Taqasim min maqam Rast

Here is my Taqasim in Rast
I hope there was some improvements since last time. I did add a little reverb to make me look cool hehehe.

http://137.122.145.36/~n2955154/SAmir%20Rast1.mp3

Jameelo that was an awsome taqasim Rast by PR. I wish I had been there for the recording session. Now lets hear you if you have time

Sammy keep it going... If you want to help you flow you should listen to he old masters and notice how they keep there phrases going. Try and be more relaxed and let your risha go at it. Also you can definetly tell a difference from your first posts.

Keep them comming guys

Hey everyone...

I was thinking that seeing as truepharaoh has already made a taksim posting thread, the makam of the month thread could be a more in depth analysis of an actual makam that would cover areas such as the progression and development of the makam (I forget the proper terminology) by this I mean an analysis of how to move between comprising tetrachords, nuances of intonation (moving quatertones and such) modulations and transpositions....perhaps this could be accompanied by audio examples so that it would be easier to recognise all these things....

I dont know how much I can contribute towards this at the moment but it would certainly be an invaluable learning source for myself and others who dont have access to any formal tuition.

Just a thought..what do you all think?

Best Wishes

Ash

Whens the next installment of Mikeouds forum favourite tv show 'Everyone loves Tawadros and Gibaley' Edward?

I dying here...
Thanks again for the clips,

Still excited James!

If this thread is still going on, what do you all think of Maqam Rast?
Thanks,
Michael

Naw, I've already noodled long enough on that one

BTW, do our MidEastern members know this expression? It's a classic in the studio, the producer behind the glass says to the musicians something like "hey, you, with the long hair, at measure 134, why don't you noodle in A for a while!"

Hijaz