Maqsoum vs Fellahi Rhythms | Belly Dancer Tips

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Learn how to tell the difference between maqsoum and fellahi Egyptian rhythms. Maqsoum and fellahi rhythms are often played with the same doumbek pattern using very similar sounding strikes. This can confuse dancers and new drummers. Maqsoum is a 4/4 rhythm and Fellahi is a 2/4 rhythm. You can think about Fellahi being a Maqsoum played double-time or twice as fast. One of the keys is looking to the phrasing of the melodic instruments in the music is the melodic phrasing coinciding with 4 counts of the beat or 2 count of the beat.
Music Samples (FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY) may be purchased on Amazon at the following links:
Maqsoum Sample amzn.to/2sHkmFy Maqsoum(1) by Hossam Ramzy: Rhythms of the Nile CD
Maqsoum Song Sample amzn.to/2sHJ6xe "Soheir Zaki Fi Balady" by Samir Srour & Soheir Zaki: Cairo Plus
Fellahi Sample: amzn.to/2urz5RY "Lesson - Fellahi" by Sayed Balaha: El Prince
Fellahi Sample: amzn.to/2sHJ6xe "Soheir Zaki Fi Balady" by Samir Srour & Soheir Zaki: Cairo Plus
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[@dariostarace]

thanks, beautiful explanation :)

[@AhlamAcademy]

Thank you. I'm glad I was able to explain a sometimes difficult to understand subject like music theory, simply and clearly!

[@beautyandthebeast1465]

Nice explanation mam 👍 👌 👏...it helped me to identify the both rythm ..thanks

[@AhlamAcademy]

Wonderful! So glad it helped.

[@sandracarli1110]

The same is true for Baladi (4-4) and Masmoudi Saghir (8-4). I see that these two rhythms are always being mixed up by Western drummers and dancers.

[@AhlamAcademy]

As I understand them, they are Baladi (also called Masmoudi Saghir) 4/4 and Masmoudi Kebir 8/4.

[@sandracarli1110]

@@AhlamAcademy Masmoudi Saghir has a slighly different pattern with 2 dums at the beginning: dum dum take tak dum take tak take. Masmoudi Kebir has 3 dums at the beginning: dum dum dum take dum take take take. Anyways both are 8/4 count rhythms (it takes 8 fingers to count all the parts of these rhythms). :)