majnuunNavid
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Persian music lecture by Davod Azad (great info here!!)
This is a nice introduction to Persian music that I completely geeked out on last night. Davod Azad demonstrates the singing style and touches upon
some spiritual and healing aspects in relation to Persian music.
He even does a short demo of the Oud on his Faruk Turunz Oud!
I really enjoyed how he got people in the audience to try and sing the dastgahs. That's the best way to really internalize the maqam system by using
your primary instrument to learn the pitches, VOICE. This is exactly what I encourage people to do in the maqam mastery program, and why I created ear
training audio files to accompany it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VGiADTdtmk
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Jody Stecher
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Good singer! Some puzzles though. Do you know what he means about the special tar tunings of Jalil Shahnaz and Farhang Sharif? Obviously Mahur is
nothing like Minor. He must have meant major.
Thanks for calling attention to this.
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majnuunNavid
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Yeah, he made a mistake about Mahur being like minor.
I'm not sure about the exact values for the tar tunings, maybe there is someone else who knows about that. But I guess those Masters created novel
tunings for their own style in certain cases. That was new to me. Though I'm pretty certain if the irregularities would show up in the third course of
the tar where they have a bass string and treble string in parallel. I've heard these strings tuned oddly before. Hopefully someone else can elaborate
or clarify.
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Shirinimirini
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Yes, there are so many different tunings for tar. The highest pair of strings is traditionally always tuned in unison (my teacher also likes to tune
them in fourths sometimes giving an taste of Khorasani dotar), same for the middle pair, and for the lowest you can find many variations, often in
octaves, but here are some other examples:
Tuning for Shur on G: Fc G c
Segah on Ap (koron): DAp G c
Shur on A: DA G c
But as he told some players find new tunings.
Like Jalil Shahnaz in this wonderful recording is using DA FG c and playing Dashti in D having beautiful resonance and nice bass notes, but only the
c-string for melody (at least in his style; from my teacher I got lots of inspiration for using all the strings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P5jxYuDbE
There's a recording of Hossein Alizadeh playing Segah on Ap, with the tuning EpAp F c. But I should search for it.
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