Ma shaa Alloh

amazing

Bravo! tarab to the max! beautiful playing and Marina is divine!

beautiful inspiring playing and singing, thank you for the love!

إكتشاف جميل؛ فرقة تستحق التشجيع

Thank you Sami!!

Very good ❤

الحمد لله

Thanks from Brazil

Thank you so much for this lesson as well as for all the ones you've already did so far. Your channel is precious. Free Palestine.

Thank you very much! What are the names of the songs in the repertory part?

i was looking at ableton for the first time in many years, and to my surprise and astonishment at first, i see they have now a maqam tuning, and then to my immense pleasure, i saw it was designed by you!!!! so i am sure it is right stuff we all need and have been waiting for for so long. thank you thank you

Perfect. Thanks for such a lovely lecture.

Pretty 🥰🥰🥰

Sami, i am thrilled every time you put out a video. Your maqam lesson videos have almost singlehandedly opened up the otherwise inaccessible world of maqam theory for me, and enabled me to learn enough in just a year that i could hold my own and perform on stage twice with the Ramallah Orchestra, despite being effectively illiterate with sheet music. This was one of the most joyful and rewarding experiences I've ever had, and you made it possible. I hope you never stop releasing your invaluable material.❤

lovely

I've been skipping this video over the past half year as i do passes on these earlier lessons, and wow i regret not watching this before!!! relating and contrasting an idiom im very familiar with as a keyboardist (Chopin, bach, Basie) to the whole arabic music world was really powerful for me. Love these lessons so much; this one was very eye opening; thank you!! شكرا جزيلا

Amazing pedagogy, thank you for sharing this valuable information.

Do you use traditional Arabic or western tuning?

only 1 minute in and i am already getting emotional at how sweet both of you look together!! so much love

1:40 - 100000% hitting the quarter tone in between major and minor third is sooo hard.

Your ability to switch vocally between Hijaz and Rast at 19:15 is breaking my brain. Well done.

thank you again so much for these videos. i am also a patron and I am just so grateful to you. Your flourishes or trills/ accents are proving tough to learn by ear. i love the arabic ornamentations but i don’t know how to do them yet. I am taking my time to try o really learn each lesson as there is so much to them. Thank you ❤

Thank you so much sami....you are truly a God sent . I have been practicing and im getting better... Keep up the good work sami ❤❤❤

Nice one dude!! Glad to see you back doin this! 💗💗💗

Sami - a unique methodology to be sure, and fun. Keep it up.

Thank you Sami for explaining the Maqam Suznak 🙏

Sami! So glad to see you posting more Maqam lessons! You have been my sherpa, guiding me into the wide and beautiful world of maqamat, and although the ascent is steep at times, your guidance is invaluable! Also, Free Palestine, end apartheid, stop the genocide, put an end to the blockade, and demand accountability! ❤

❤❤ incredibly beautiful thank you so much for this, and specifically for talking about what's happening in Palestine.

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best teacher on planet earth

Thank you so much sir, you are indeed a gem for teaching the various Jins of Maqam

Sami thank you so much for these videos! I don't have the spare cash for patreon but i've been having a blast playing along on Oud and singing with your maqam lessons! I love your focus on ear training and embodiment -- its the only way!

Theory is necessary to be able to understand this. Need to know the intervals for all the ajnas.

Thank you for your statement on the root cause of the destruction and diasporas wrought by imperialism, capitalism and settler colonialism.

thank u so much for sharing the knowledge

How delightful. Thank you for the lesson. The violin really helped make every note clear for me.

Arab land theft? No that doesn’t count. Splitting up the Ottoman Empire and creating about 20 countries? No that doesn’t count. Splitting the Palestinian mandate and 80% creating Jordan. No that doesn’t count. Soliti g the temp20% 50:50. No that doesn’t count. Expelling 1 million Jews from majority Arab countries. No that doesn’t count either. The answer is that only Muslims Arabs can have nations. Not the Jews.

Excellent!

"I am awake, and I'm not going back to sleep." Brennan Lee Mulligan

“Many many people are waking up!”Thank you for that. Also, thank you so much for your maqam lessons. life changing really! One day soon I hope, when I’m not under water, I’ll link in to your patreon. For now, thank you so much.

Amen, Sami. Well put.

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8:40 😂😂😂😂😂

Thank you, amazing video!

What scales should we play in?

Thank you for this video. You and your daughter are so sweet!

2:00 3:44

Thank you for the wonderful content. I am finishing your book too and I had a question in case you are monitoring these comments: the way of presenting maqams in the maqam world website does not seem to be in sync with the book. For instance, I am learning maqam nahawand according to the book (which I love by the way!) and your lessons but I went to the maqam world site to see what it says and it has two main options that seem like a very limited view of the maqam. For instance in maqam Nahawand your graph has bayati as a possible route but on the site nahawand with bayati on ghammaz is given a different name. I am a little bit confused 😅

Thank you so much for these 🙏🙏🙏