LILY AFSHAR - Virtuoso Guitar - Five Popular Persian Ballads

[jezadeh1]

Dardo balaat to sareh har chee Akhonde.  Goheh sag to Islam o Qoran

[omidbahadori]

Merci!!

[caljunkal]

This is the most amazing song I have ever heard in my whole life

[TheAzv3]

Wonderful.



[aerostatov]

nice...



[Minuvash]

I hope that she is free now!!!

[hswatnik]

fine work- enjoyable to say the least-

[VdHaTa105]

Woooo !!! SuperB !!!!

:)

[PersianQueenz]

Me love this :D 

[ritubahar]

The first part of the composition sounds a bit like "Alhambra", a Spanish guitar composition. Is this a Persian version of "Alhambra"?

Nice guitar playing by the lady. Regards.

[MAzi1680]

@ritubahar Actually, she is using tremulous for a famous old Persian melody.

[Fritson]

Bravo ... Lily Afshar! :)

FFD

[monarashti]

We Iranians have music in our blood, running thorugh our veins. Noone can take that away from us, not this regime nor Islam!!!

Nothing!!!

[ultram4]

What kind of guitar is that?

Looks like it´s compensated on the fretboard at some places...or is that to be able to do quarter notes?

[Minuvash]

عزیز جون

جون من

بیا بریم با هم

به شآخاب پارس

لیلی افشار را آزاد کنید هم میهنان گرامی

با سازمان دادن اعتصابات سراسری و تشکیل دادن دولت مادرشاهی

[crg2005arsan]

Lovely!!!

[Farhadalmani]

kheili ziba.Khatere zende mikone.Mer30

[man200088]

avalin bare mibinam ye nafar zire dastesh baleshtak gozashteh

[sahebo1]

Great

[realjuvelive]

Tabs! or sheets?

[mehdisn65]

من رفتم تو کف اکتاوایی که بین اکتاو 5 و 6گذاشته بود روی دسته

حال کردم

[sirBastami]

her performance is outstanding, touched me deep !!!

[aryoobarzan321]

دگر نشوم من بهار حموم

دگر نکمه شیخ جلال سلوم

الهی شیخ جلال تینوم باوه گوم

ها کردمه امضا بیمه پشیمون

درنه جان درنه جان درنه

خدا خدا مه فاطمه جان درنه

درنه جان درنه جان درنه

خدا خدا مه فاطمه جان درنه

[KatakalosTheodoros]

!!!!!!!!!! ΦΑΝΤΑΣΤΙΚΉ!!!!!

[michaelruelas]

i loved it alot!!! very very VERY passionate!!!

[zartoshtian021]

Zende Bad Zane Irani wa Irani ke hamegi Namooooooooose Manid !

Honar ze dast Iraniyan asto bas !

[Dimeshit666]

when i see that kind of women i regret my mariage !

[anmeinersaite]

Amazing!

Bow to your performance

Thomas

[lucasapendino]

Muy Bello!

[siam543]

vaghean lezat bordam....

[LedZeppelinPage]

I saw her live last year with lawrence juber

Jaw dropping

[mppleal]

You are great... and beautiful !!

[justap20]

I love You LILY !!!!!

[shahinkhare021]

oh my fukin god

[kbaronshaffer]

beautiful performance!

[peterwdeng]

Beautiful, a small piece with the quality of a lullaby. I am very impressed. Just wonder if I can find the same music played on a oud? I would like to hear the difference..

[Pashatube]

BRAVO., AHSAN..

[leopower7]

Is it common for the tremolo not to sound without pauses every 3 picks?

[alirezashadmanfar]

i liked 1/4th distances very much!

[1963cia]

karet doruste vaghen yek nabeghei dar navakhtene gitar .

[annie85v]

beautiful...

[LedZeppelinPage]

I saw her a couple weeks back in Jacksonville, she is phenomenal!

[zoryanaukr]

!!!!!

[fleamall]

Wow! What a performance! Bravo!

Amazing and talented/gifted young Persian lady who not only used the guitar as an instrument but also her fingers!

[joselitomarjarino]

good, good, tyou very much, joselito

[ruthymccabe]

Absolutely wonderful..

[mozani2001]

wunderschöne musik , wunderschöne Frau.

[shaheil]

so good..

[zachenstein]

I kept thinking she had six fingers on her right hand! hahaha...

[bigmuso123]

A quarter tone is Half a semitone.

Just to help superquazimoto.

[achievist]

That guitar was saying things to me I have never heard before, in a language I don't speak but somehow understand like it's second nature. Thank you, Ms Afshar, for cleansing my soul so early in the morning. Because of you, absolutely nothing can ruin my day now.

[persianmusic09]

nice

thanxx

[rezadespo]

Bravo

[assa123assa123]

what are the small partial frets in between normal ones here and there? they seem to be made of wire and not just for reference..

[ardendouglas]

They're fretlets. She's got several more now. I believe they're used to play halftones.

[assa123assa123]

Believing is not equal to knowing. What is a 'halftone'? a quarter-step? what for? she doesn't stop strings there throughout this video

[ardendouglas]

I apologize. They're for quarter tones, which are intervals that are half of a half step.

[assa123assa123]

I've come to a guessing of my own. Since 'quarter steps' don't sound meaningful to me I would suppose these are for a kind of a slight vibrato or trills! As you can't do normal downward vibrato (lower pitch) on a guitar this may help to do a periodic sliding to this false fret or pulling/hammering to have a kind of normal vibrato on guitar.. maybe

[ardendouglas]

It truly is just for quarter-tones. She's my teacher and she corrected me about the half-tones (seeing as that's how the guitar is already divided and I should have been able to think that through) and wanted me to let you the fretlets' real purpose.

[superquazimodo]

no its literally for playing a quarter tone, a note that lies inbetween and sounds different to the normal frets. Western music does not have this, these quarter tones are what make middle eastern and asian music sound so strange to people who listen to western music. (the drone notes also add to that strangeness)

[assa123assa123]

that's all too weird, but if you are sure... I thought eastern music was NOT ABOUT FRETS and about lots of microtonaluty (oud and such instruments), which were fretted when came to european culture through crusades as simplification. can't say anything about sitars and china pimas but they also allow for a lot of microtonality as frets are huge opposed to guitars.

[caraphyllis]

The modern oud has no frets - look at the great Simon Shaheen, for instance. Afshar plays western repertoire on a western instrument, but sometimes wishes to play middle eastern repertoire too, which requires quartertones. Rather than switch instruments, she's provided quartertone frets. It's an unorthodox and clever solution -- quite elegant and ingenious, actually.

[assa123assa123]

I'm tired of this crap, really. And I no longer require to pass me knowledge. But if you say that 'middle eastern repertoire requires quartertones', would you explain how it comes that she never uses a single one of them on this video called '5 popular persian ballads'?

[caraphyllis]

Your rage is curious. Afshar was born in Iran and plays Persian music as she sees fit. I have no idea why she didn't use quartertones in this piece. Why don't you communicate with her and ask her yourself?

[assa123assa123]

no rage at all. I just got tired of hearing opinions that say the same words and don't reveal anything. Why are those frets on special locations? for some scales only? Interesting stuff, but none of the repliers has a solid vision to give a knowledgeable answer, just flatter. I've searched wiki and found the stuff. No more interest I have here.

[ardendouglas]

Persian folk music (e.g. the 5 popular Persian ballads) does not use quarter tones. Dr. Afshar also plays traditional Persian music that does use these extra frets (such as Gozaar on her Hemispheres CD). Her DVD explains it.

[markmando333]

absolutely fabulous

[TheJester1962]

Her tremolo seems to feature some kind of miraculous built-in reverb ... most inspiring!

[MyMelancholyDodo]

beautiful

[t0m4t3]

Wow! What a clean execution! It's great!!

[Haryamb02]

This is cool!

[jazzpsalti]

this is really good!

And it made me realize, you could arrange Wagner for solo guitar, but if you use tremolo it's gonna sound Spanish!!! loloololololo

[abella33]

Extraordinaria ejecución, felicitaciones.-

Alberto Abella

[dadautube]

excellent job indeed!

[vratsasg]

AMAZING!!FANTASTIC!!!

[KabaHiroshi]

Excellent!

Very passionate!

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic!

[programator1964]

beautifull :)

[nonexponential]

Amazing.

[VerlagSpringer]

What guitar is that? Is it a Cervantes?

[GTCooper223]

It's a Thomas Humphrey.

[adilzahrani]

beautiful

[parissaz]

wow....beautiful....keep up the great work Lily....

[safaeyan]

sorry,i love ur song!hummm

[safaeyan]

i love u song, and i heard until i was a child.boooos lily

[kgar00]

Thats amazinggg♥

[BaptistGirl14]

Ummm.. .WOW!!

[kgar00]

haayyy!!!

haha

♥

we both commented on the same vid!

:p

lol

wasnt that amazingg???

wowzerrrsss♥

ahaha

[BaptistGirl14]

Once again... great minds think alike.. LoL! WE are awesome! LOL!!!

[Gaara5Sasuke]

Beautiful! Honestly when I closed my eyes I was dreaming!

Great guitarre skills and thanks for showing us some of these wonderful ballads!

5* stars

[susangrisanti]

Great sound Lilly

[Kikealbacete]

Interesante. Gracias

[RibEye4]

it was like peotry