Re: [Harp-L] Arabic Song

["Emile D'Amico" <EDAmico@xxxxxxx>]

Here's a Middle Eastern style tune but I can't remember what scales we used.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=410180692
The song is Azure Sands

Diggs 

>>> <riccardogrosso@xxxxxxxxx> 09/26/08 1:51 PM >>>
Well Buddha,
to be honest I think he had a great idea and we should let the music go 
where it goes. I mean who the f**k care about the Hijaz Maqum? Come on man, 
you sound like the hyper-techinque fusion players who speak about music and 
scales instead of playing the music and enjoying it, to me! Are we still 
chained into the need of analize everything with criticism? He did a very 
good job on that song and for me that sound works!

He was asking for a little opinion and not for a arabic music lesson!

Salaaham!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddha" <groovygypsy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Arabic Song


>I listened to your Arabic dreaming tune.  While it's interesting,
> you're not playing arabic scales at all.
>
> One of the most basic arabic scales is the Hijaz Maqum  C - Db - E - F
> - G - Ab - Bb - C   this scale is widely used and one that you can
> hear Joe Satriani use to great effect.
>
>
> May I suggest a look into the world of Maqams if you really want to
> get into this stuff.
>
> Arabic maqams are based on a musical scale of 7 notes that repeats at
> the octave. Some maqams have 2 or more alternative scales (e.g. Rast,
> Nahawand and Hijaz). Maqam scales in traditional Arabic music are
> microtonal, not based on a twelve-tone equal-tempered musical tuning
> system, as is the case in modern Western Music. Most maqam scales
> include a perfect fifth or a perfect fourth (or both), and all octaves
> are perfect. The remaining notes in a maqam scale may or may not
> exactly fall on semitones.
>
> If you're going to start working on 24 note scales then you'll need a
> harp that is designed to do that....HEY I happen to be making those
> these days. LOL
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