What is a Turkish Music Makam?

Microtonal Guitar Institute presents: What is a Makam?
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[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Interesting hybrid playing technique in that last clip -- would have liked to see that slightly zoomed out to see more of just how the technique works. Seems to be a bowed switching to plucked, combined with left-hand-plucked.

[@therealzilch]

Nice. I'm already a little familiar with the sound of various makams, but I never knew anything of their theory. To me as a medieval European music performer, this extension of tetrachords with pentachords sounds remarkably parallel to how hexachords were extended to form what we would now call scales. Fascinating stuff, cheers from Sahara sand darkened Vienna, Scott

[@LouisaLaroche]

Thank you, I was just starting to look into Makams

[@kabalder]

Oh, interesting music theory, makes sense. Liking the video. And /by the way/... here's a five second clip of playing the guitar that you will never forget for as long as you live 😅

[@Neptunade]

Tk;dr: Stylized three, four, and five note runs, with an exhaustive in-culture taxonomy and suggested usage for each note combination. Must be nice to have, this lexical guide for note-patterns. :)

[@rombsix]

It's interesting that the English version of this video is 3:19, the Turkish version is 3:39, and the Spanish version is 4:14 :)

[@Gee-no]

I love this channel. I play guitar. For 30yrs on and off. But how do I start learning microtonal music? Fretless? I special guitar? I was going to pull all the frets out of a cheap ukulele and meds with that. What do u think?

[@johnmoser1162]

You have seen what kind of frets he uses ... ?!

[@microtonalguitar]

Thanks. You can get my microtonal guitar method. You can buy an adjustable microtonal guitar and start learning makams on the guitar. Email: [e-mail]

[@Gee-no]

@@johnmoser1162 I have, it's just I figured it's very expensive for something I just want to dip my toes in so to speak. The guitar with moveable frets is amazing! So, yes, I have seen it

[@Gee-no]

@@microtonalguitar thanks, I'll check it out

[@johnmoser1162]

@@Gee-no Buy a cheap Harley Benton guitar for like $50-$100 and glue some additional frets.

[@nerdycatgamer]

When you talk about 'emphasizing the 3rd degree', does that mean playing with a different tetrachord around that degree? with the tonic and dominant it is more simple, because the entire maqam is built off of tetrachords built off of those degrees, so when we want to emphasize those degrees we use those tetrachords. but with the 3rd degree I understood it as meaning we would use a different tetrachord rooted off of the 3rd degree. similar to, for example, using a minor scale rooted on the 3rd degree of a major scale in western music (because normally the scale rooted on the 3rd degree would make phrygian) hope that makes sense. thanks a lot for your education and great playing :)

[@microtonalguitar]

Yes, exactly. It becomes a new flavor

[@nerdycatgamer]

@@microtonalguitar cool! i wonder if maqam music would be easier for jazz musicians to grapple with, because this sort of playing is reminiscient of chord-scale theory (although a lot of jazz musicians nowadays don't like chord-scale theory!)