Easy Arabic Music Singing Class - Maqam Lesson 03: Jins Nahawand دروس في المقام - جنس نهاوند

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[@fettywapofficial]

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

[@fihrilkamal7296]

Jins Nahawand to me feels like something romantic and sad, like missing someone you love.

[@Rikienhypen1]

This is amazing! I've been trying to learn how to sing in Arabic and this video popped up. Thank you! 🙏🏼❤️

[@abushumays]

Thanks!

[@laconja1]

@@abushumays Great Video 🙏🙏

[@tharo4390]

Hi! Hope your learning has been going well, I was wondering if you found some other good channels? I want to learn too but it's hard to find material

[@FromTheLightIIskTan]

Perfect. Thanks for such a lovely lecture.

[@theliberalthinker3308]

Wow Wow !! That girl can sing. She can sing with the instrument.

[@MaryemHassanTollar947]

Wonderful lesson :) and wonderful song and beautiful singing by your daughter! Thank you Sami - you are amazing. Now I have to go and check out the 2 other lessons that I haven’t watched yet :)

[@abushumays]

❤❤❤ Thank you Maryam!

[@Convert96]

I am interested in understanding how the Arabic music works. So thanks for making this.

[@bela-sofia34]

Thanks so much for this. I have looked to find a local teacher to no avail. I am going to be practicing with you a lot!

[@deborahfischbach750]

Fabulous love seeing you and your daughter!

[@jf5860]

Bravo from Germany!

[@ami2846]

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

[@Shukarr]

Thank you very much for these lessons. Your daughter is the cutest. Tell her good job on her song from us.

[@Susanzakho]

Many thanks to both of youuuuuu. Excellent video.

[@concertjunkie8607]

Thank you so much for this lesson!! ❤️ much appreciated! this is so helpful!!

[@FortuitousOwl]

This was very helpful!

[@steveb8200]

This was eye opening, and inspiring byond words. Thank you very much for this extremely accessible and useful lesson!

[@Mscoffiedash]

I really like this! Thank you!

[@gloriaajesus3635]

God bless you, you are wonderful and generous master. god bless you

[@aferreira69]

Fantástico! Bem hajam* Thank you for an amazing lesson :)

[@betweenearthandsky4091]

Thank you so, so much! I have been seeking such videos for a while! You are both so sweet, I love how attentive she is to each of your movements and that of the music. Such a beautiful connection. Please keep making more videos! 🙏🏼🕊

[@marybintmalek3865]

Amazing lesson thank you

[@dacarly1330]

Prince if Egypt brought me to learn such a beautiful style of music

[@rchocolatelover5182]

Thank you so so much guys

[@mandar13579]

Hello Sami sir. I feel so lucky to have found this channel. I am a lover of languages, music and cinema. I learn songs from various tongues. I am going to refer to your lessons to learn Arabic voice culture from now on. Thank you!!

[@ovedlib2455]

Thanks so much! Your daughter is so charming !

[@IrmaLaDulceASMR]

Adore Mehrunnisa's beautiful voice! I don't even sing or play an instrument but I have an appreciation for the music, I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson. I loved singing along, amazing to hear you dissect the music in such detail, bravo Sami, wish you the best of luck. 🤗

[@rominabentancourt4088]

That’s what I’ve been looking for! Much appreciated!

[@abushumays]

Thank you!

[@dikrankabbendjian8673]

Thank you Sami. I like the lesson and your approach and explanation. Also, you have a great assistant.

[@abushumays]

Thank you so much!

[@richardkaznyoung7711]

Wonderful thank you so much for this awesome video G-d bless

[@martabellydance]

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

[@jeffbucksnort]

Thank you!!!!

[@sephirarakssharki]

So great! Thank you.

[@abushumays]

Thanks for watching!

[@hayaal-hejailan4310]

shukran!

[@queenofpunt]

Wow thank you so much and Ma'sha'allah tabarakallah your daughter has a beautiful voice already. This lesson is very great for me also to learn this singing style. I'm a new subscriber, i just subscribed and I'm looking forward to seeing your content from now on. This lesson was very helpful for me. I grew up listening to Arabic classics/old music and now i want to learn how to actually sing them In'sha'allah. I can sing a little already but this just came right in time for me since i want to learn more. Do you have online classes?

[@bertrandcodevl3817]

Thank you so much to you Sami and to your daughter. I enjoyed your lesson and to sing with you!

[@abushumays]

Thank you!

[@cristinanavazo-eguianewton344]

Fabulous teaching of Arabic singing, at last! Thank you Shami, and Mehrunnisa for helping and contributing her perfect pitching. There is so much in common with flamenco music, which again proves where we got it from. So true about the need to come away from musical notation. Sami, can I ask what the Arabic word is for the tonic? Many thanks again.

[@abushumays]

One word used is "darajat il-rukuuz" and another is "qarar" - but frankly neither is used very much by musicians

[@cristinanavazo-eguianewton344]

@@abushumays Thank you! Would that be درجة الركوو ? And قرر ? What a pity the Arabic music terms might be lost...

[@abushumays]

@@cristinanavazo-eguianewton344 yes that's correct in Arabic spelling

[@cristinanavazo-eguianewton344]

@@abushumays Beautiful! Thank you, Sami. I think I dropped the ز at the end...

[@mandar13579]

Hi Ms. Cristina. Could you please recommend a likewise excellent KZbin channel on flamenco singing?

[@JQKhanTech]

Splendid and unique voice, and playing music device. it shows your talent and the ability of ruling the art singing very well. I tribute your voice is the best. The charm of your voice remained the top during entire recording therefore, you certainly deserve lots of likes. keep up uploading please. Best regard

[@1302Records]

Thank you! Great job! Sharing....

[@abushumays]

Thank you so much!

[@arorasif]

Wow this is an awsome lesson. I feel like I have a much greater understanding of this singing style right away and it's a great excersise. I recently gained an arabic friend and we speak mostly in icelandic, haha, he's learning and I'm icelandic. Anyway, he asked me if I'd want to learn an arabic song and sing it for him to record because he loves my voice and I looove this kind of music and the singing technique/style. And I've been struggling a bit and then I get shy but this is a huge help! Just what I needed. - Kær kveðja / kinde regards, Áróra Sif from Iceland

[@abushumays]

Thanks!

[@losv2434]

Nice

[@reredemarae]

wow this is amazing

[@abushumays]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@reredemarae]

@@abushumays it’s ok I definitely want to start learning how to sing in the Arabic scale

[@danieldallemolledecarvalho8179]

Incríveis essas aulas! أَنا أَدْرُسُ

[@abushumays]

Thank you Daniel!

[@soghaalhefiti8848]

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@@soghaalhefiti8848 ه٨٠م٨

[@aliiomar7271]

هذه باي لغة

[@asamson2856]

this is so fun!

[@abushumays]

Thanks glad you enjoyed it!

[@falgunishah8747]

How beautiful

[@Sarah-cu8fz]

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[@timothymaloof]

Cute!!

[@queenofpunt]

also i think i teared up a little in the end when your daughter was singing😭

[@abushumays]

Awww thank you so much!

[@kilimanjarno]

oh this is sooo good. Please please for the new fiddlers who really want to learn to play arabic music on fiddle, please please show your left hand.

[@abushumays]

Thanks for watching! The other two videos do a better job of showing my left hand, because I'm in the whole frame. But it was harder for this one. Future ones where it's just me will show the hand

[@kilimanjarno]

@@abushumays thank you. and thank Melissa Kacalanos for posting this to facebook.

[@brianbuckstead7576]

Sami, thank you very much for these videos. They are a wonderful resource! When you play and sing all of the short melodies in these lessons, are those taken from popular Arabic songs (by Umm Kulthum, for example), or are you improvising?

[@abushumays]

Good question, it's a little of both. However I think some clarification is in order. "Improvising" in Arabic music doesn't mean just making up melodies on the fly. It actually means making longer melodies by building on a large vocabulary of smaller melodies that are shared through oral tradition. It's like speaking in a language: we improvise every time we speak, but we're not improvising every single phoneme or letter, we are using words in a vocabulary that we know, and building sentences spontaneously from those existing words. In some cases, we even have larger components of language already in memory, like idiomatic phrases or sentences using several words. The short phrases I am giving here are those "melody words" that everyone in the tradition knows implicitly, and which are used to build longer melodies. In fact it is the same melodic vocabulary that is used for composed songs, the difference being mainly the way they're structured rhythmically (in a constrained rhythmic cycle for songs vs. an idiomatic melodic rhythm particular to improvisation). Once you really absorb this vocabulary over time you will start to see it displayed in both improvisation and in songs. Again, like with language, once you know the words your ability to parse raw speech develops. I hope that helps!

[@brianbuckstead7576]

@@abushumays Sami, I really appreciate this detailed answer. Thank you for the clarification. I do understand what you are saying, and this will help as I continue listening to and learning about Arabic music.

[@AndyLetcher]

Thanks so much, these videos are amazing. You're such a great teacher. Can I ask, in the first video you play Jins Rast in C, but here you are in D. Any reason for that or is it just good to practise a jins in multiple keys? Or do you tend to find Rast played in C and Nahawand in D? Thanks!

[@abushumays]

I'm mixing it up so people get used to the ajnas being on different keys. Each Jins or maqam can occur in any different key. Yes there are specific keys people often use to conceptualize the ajnas (which you can check out on Maqam World), but in practice they're transposed everywhere, usually depending on the vocal range of the singer

[@AndyLetcher]

@@abushumays Thanks for the clarification and the speedy response!

[@AdelAbedChehab]

Hi Sami, congrats for this initiative. I showed this video to my 8 years old daughter and she asked me for the fingerings on the violin (she plays violin for 3 years now). Please if you can show your left hand during the next videos, it would be great cause she was very moved by this lesson and wants to play on her violin. Thanks! keep it up. oh! she send hi to your daughter.

[@abushumays]

Thanks for sharing with your daughter ❤. I think I did a better job showing my left hand in the first two videos, check them out. The first one is accidentally in mirror image. But ask your daughter to try to see if she can find her fingers on the strings without looking, just using her ears to see if she can make it sound the same

[@kilimanjarno]

@@abushumays oh wow I just asked the exact same thing above.

[@allarawinters2808]

Hey there, are you able to give private lessons online as well? personal ones on zoom or something?

[@allarawinters2808]

Also the little girl is so beautiful and adorable :)

[@abushumays]

I do, yes, hit me up on my instagram @abushumays or facebook/messenger Sami Abu Shumays and we can discuss

[@JO-tw5yd]

sir do you teach online ? i am looking to learn arabic classical singing.

[@abushumays]

Yes, find me on Facebook and message me there, I don't want to put my contact info here.

[@catofninetales3125]

She's beautiful and looks just like you! I love the music!

[@abushumays]

Thank you!

[@zionistjew613]

Thank you! You are amazing! Can you speak about politics sometime? I’d love to hear what your perspective is on Palestinian matters. I know it is not necessarily an area of expertise for you, but you must have a personal points of view, and I’m sure many would love to hear it. Full disclosure: I love visiting Israel and am Jewish, but I know Palestinians were evicted from their homes. I would love to know more about what Palestinians think about Palestinian matters. Like what about that Techno musician at Musa’s tomb? Or, who are you favourite Palestinians writers or musicians? I read one Palestinian writer once and he was fantastic. I forget his name.

[@abushumays]

Hi Michael, thanks for watching the videos and for commenting. For me, these videos aren't the right forum for political discussions, which aren't germane to music theory. Feel free to reach out to me privately or to other Palestinians you may be acquainted with if you'd like more education on the Palestinian perspective. It's highly recommended that you develop personal relationships and friendships if you want that understanding.

[@laurapl249123]

Really nice video, just was I was hoping to find!:D Around 18:18 you talk about two different moods, and says that one note changes. You count 1, 2, 3 on both examples and I don’t hear any notes change. Can you explain this further?:) Thanks

[@abushumays]

Hi Laura, if you're having trouble hearing the difference I can recommend several things. First, conceptually what is happening is that the "3" in the example I call Rast is about a 1/4 tone higher than the "3" in the Nahawand I'm playing for most of the video. In this case, Nahawand is using a D minor scale so 1 2 3 = D E F natural. With Rast it is D E F-half-sharp, a note in between the notes of the piano. So if you're having trouble hearing that difference I recommend listening a bunch of times, but also spend time comparing using two other videos: Maqam Lesson 01 that is focused on Jins Rast specifically, and then the lesson where I compare Jins Rast and Jins Nahawand on all keys. If you repeat these three videos enough times, your ear will begin to adjust so you can hear that difference. Because it's a sound you're not used to, it will take you some time to adjust and it's totally understandable that you can't hear it right away.

[@laurapl249123]

Wow thank you so much for taking the time to answer, it makes so much more sense now☺️ I’ll go listen to those things. It’s very exciting to be introduced into music culture that is so far apart from what I’m used to listening to, I feel very lucky. Lots of good energy to you two from Scandinavia

[@EowyndeRohan2024]

Como se chamam as músicas apresentadas nesse vídeo?

[@abushumays]

one is "Alf Leyla wu Leyla" kzbin.info/www/bejne/q52Xq2mpgdOLj7s

[@hemachausali6330]

can you provide arabic singing classes?

[@abushumays]

Follow me on Instagram or Facebook where I post info on classes. Or DM me there for private lessons

[@Midmissy8648]

I am Arabic

[@FelipeBurkhardt]

What's the name of this song? I Dont get it

[@user-uy9pl3ui9l]

what that means???

[@Geva555]

Can you teach saba makam?

[@abushumays]

Yes I will! But I have some others in the series first. I'll definitely get to all of the maqamat

[@fayazuddinjoomun3785]

I am 48 years of age. My voice is not so nice. Can I have a nice voice at this age?

[@aliiomar7271]

the world "ya lily"" يا ليلي"it means wow in english

[@janobi-qp9pk]

It's mean night