Santur Lesson: How to Play "Invocation" on Santur

Learn how to play the piece" Invocation" on Santur.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced musician, this lesson is designed to help you play a dynamic emotional piece and master the unique melodies and rhythms it entails.
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[@cannon440]

I never heard of or saw this instrument You play it beautifully. It is basically an open piano.

[@patriciaprorok3678]

Great !

[@AbovetheSpace-lz5dt]

Much respect bro👍👍

[@tottokoro]

Thanks for the video! 🙏🏻 It’s really hard to find santoor tutorials in english, with this clarity and which is helpfull to understand how to improvize on it. This is like a gem💎

[@maiacorbin7879]

Thanks for this! I've loved Persian music for years and just got my first santour today =) I was sort of scratching my head wondering how to apply my rusty piano-based music background with mezrabs, and this was extremely helpful!

[@bidardar5329]

you gotta go INSIDE the piano :D

[@suronkimehak]

What s d santoor price

[@harunbilge6244]

Thank you. I'm excited for video. I hope you have more time and gets more videos :)

[@SinaBathaie]

Thank you

[@nicolefish9285]

yes!!! as a santour student this is great ! Also appreciating the english version

[@gottalogie]

bravvvvvvo for your easy explications

[@thilakchander7244]

You are amazing

[@haidarbadavi9460]

Thanks, Sina, for such good preparation, presentation, and explanation, Also, its good in English, I have seen a lot of videos in Persian and its hard when you try to add caption or translation, Well done Many thanks

[@nimaamini11]

😍💯🎶

[@Aaaaaaaaaa00085]

❤

[@nikolaospeterson2495]

Very nice, only thing, how come like you not tune in the 'dasthahs as well? This is one thing I like about Persian music the dastgah notes. (I know mostly in classical music)

[@user-ly9nz2gn3t]

❤❤❤

[@kamranmg5516]

👍👏🔥❤

[@hallowie6768]

🌹🌹🌹

[@henrybelliveau4975]

Hi Sina :) What is the brand & model of your santoor? Beautiful playing

[@Still.Hopsein]

Good Luck Bro♥️

[@PouyaJackson]

GREAT VIDEO THANKS ALOT, i do have question, at the beginning of the tutorial you said that the santoor should be tuned in Gminor, is that a standard tuning of a santoor or only for playing this piece?

[@SinaBathaie]

Only for this piece

[@ZubairKhan-vs8fe]

Please do a full set of lessons. I have a santoor and don't even know how to tune it

[@SinaBathaie]

Check out instruction videos by Sadaf Amini

[@Mattan777]

Is this exact Santur with the same tuning as you use here for sale somewhere?

[@Zone10Permaculture]

Afarin!! You always play so beautifully! My partner bought a santur for me and I'm trying to learn to play. Unfortunately I cannot read/write or understand Farsi and the only instruction books or videos I've found are in Farsi. Do you know of any book or video that teaches in English?

[@SinaBathaie]

Thanks Lucas! Glad you enjoyed, Unfortunately it seems so far there isn't any book in english, My goal from this lesson was to fill this gap and put out some lessons in english for people who are interested in learning Santur. However the music language is through notes and score and is universal, you can get going with some guidance, if you like to I can teach you some techniques through skype lessons.

[@Zone10Permaculture]

@@SinaBathaie I really appreciate your generous offer to teach me santur by Skype. In the spring I will have more free time and I will definitely be in touch. You are one of our generation's master of santur and it would be a honor to be taught by you. Kheili mamnoun, Sina Joon. Thank you again for uploading this video and explaining in English.

[@kayvanm252]

Hi Lucas, I want to suggest you Sadaf Amini's tutorial videos for beginners. the videos languages are Farsi but there is an English subtitle that would help you to understand the lessons. just search "Sadaf Amini"

[@fj3103]

Très belle musique...Pourriez-vous me dire quel est le type de santur est utilisé dans le titre DAKINI de Prem Joshua s'il vous plaît ? Merci

[@hossainfarnoush]

Hi, this piece sounds heavenly . Are you referring to bridged Santur as Hammered Dulcimer? The Persian Santur is an incomplete instrument and does not have all the notes what do you think ? The dulcimer has all ( chromatic) but the notes are at different positions!! Please comment .

[@SinaBathaie]

Correct, but I dont call it incomplete, it is diatonic, and just having notes for one scale allow one to be more creative and play in a flow , Same as hand pan which mostly doesn't even have all the notes in a scale

[@martinfido2161]

G minor has flats not sharps - diatonic semitones not chromatic semitones :-) Is this tuned to 12-TET? I've been trying to find what pure intonation tunings are commonly used on a Santur. I found a video by Sala Muzik where it was tuned to Phrygian but I couldn't quite get all the ratios. Thanks!

[@SinaBathaie]

That is correct, The # equivalent are shown here for beginners as they try to tune their Santur using Tuner . This is tuned to 12-TET

[@martinfido2161]

@@SinaBathaie thank you. Try pure intonation if you haven't already, it's a very different sound.

[@SankalpaMadhawaMusic]

What's the difference between santur and dulcimer? 🤔

[@AvitheTiger]

So it sounds like you're playing the melody (composed mostly of quarter notes) on the right side along with an arpeggio of the chord (composed with sixteenth notes) on the left side So the Ostinato would go something like "melody note"-root note-second degree-third degree?

[@SinaBathaie]

Exactly!

[@LukeKwan78]

I was just tasked with being in charge of finding and buying an Santur. I live in Texas. I didn’t happen to find any local, but there are 102 on eBay from $300-$3000. Since I know nothing about them, what I’d difference between Indian and Persian santur/Santoor? Is there any place in america that I can buy them? What should one pay for them?

[@bidardar5329]

Persian santur is like the one in this video, it's the standard and sounds heavenly. Indian santur sounds very different and is well-suited for indian music. A good santur is handmade by an experienced master, and they put their stamp/name/signature somewhere on the instrument body (if they think it sounds really good, they put 2 or 3 stamps on it) so you can look for persian names in the title, or signatures on the santur, most of the time it's a pretty good indicator. Also I'd recommend getting a new instrument as opposed to a used one, 'cause you never know how they might have treated the instrument, things like humidity can harm the santur. I'd guess the price of a good-sounding santur to start at around $350-400.

[@SinaBathaie]

You can checkout Salamusik, they have good quality Santurs

[@alichegini_official]

حالا چرا انگلیسی؟😒