Misirlou/ Μισιρλού on bağlama

[tzimtzum1618]

I have a "short neck" as well I've got the more traditional version of the song down fairly well but I was wondering if you had any tips about the Dick Dale part. I know your playing across all your strings but when I do that it sounds terrible. I'm pretty sure it's just the tuning difference. I'm tuned DAE.

[Fatamorganabu]

@tzimtzum1618 Here I've used BAE, a very common tuning for bağlama. I play the first part two ways. One is with the B string as drone (changes to B and E string for a while) and melody on A string. The second way is melody over all strings. Then it starts A string third and fouth fret, B string sixth, open E string, third fret and so on... that's a little tricky. But that's they way they play on bağlama.

[786Noorkhan786]

Miserlou is a Greek song. Nice to know its history. I grew up in California in the 60s and always thought it was by Dick Dale and the Deltones. Cool. There is a similar tune from Afghanistan by Ustad Mohammad Omar called 'nastaran.'

[Fatamorganabu]

@786Noorkhan786 Yes, just listened to it today and found out the same. Nice to find melodies that are widely spread like the melody of "Üdküdara Gideriken". Well, nice, until it doesn't lead to trouble because blockheads claim it as their song and get pissed off.

[786Noorkhan786]

@Fatamorganabu haha, true... all music is made from the same notes and who has copyright on them?

[ylli1231]

Can you do this on the çifteli? I only play the kosovar Çifteli, but im guessing that they are similar. Can it be done?

[Fatamorganabu]

@ylli1231 Well, I can't do this on çifteli, because I don't have any. Didn't know this instrument until now, but sounds nice. Reminds me a little of Turkish cura. Thank you for showing it to me.

[lalamali1]

THİS TURKİSH BAGLAMA!!!

[panoskniwthe]

its not baglama my friend...baglama is much smaller and it has one much noisy and thin sound...btw,gratz for your vid :) you play pretty good

[rastaisfutur]

@panoskniwthe what you are talking about is the greek baglama that derived from bouzouki. In the times when there were the "Magges", bouzouki was a forbidden instrument and if the police caught them with it they would brake it. That's why they created the baglama, a smaller version of the bouzouki, so they could hide it within their jacket if they saw a policeman! (to egrapsa agglika gia na mathainoun kai alloi tin yperoxi istoria tou ellinikou ypokosmou)

[dirtyharry66gr]

ti mpaglamas wre?sazi einai ayto

[358408]

small bağlama : cura BAĞLAMA

[webmasterportali]

Is linking cura ?

[Fatamorganabu]

@webmasterportali I'm pretty sure it's a kisa sap baglama.

[musgun]

@webmasterportali ahahahaa is "linking" what you get when you search for "baglama" in the dictionary? another "chicken translation" case XD

[gurinos]

this i think called Sazi baglamas is much smaller . But that's nice :-)

[poiosarage]

ταμπουρας δεν ειναι αυτο?is this a tabouras?

[erkdemir]

i like it very much! Nice to see a greek man playing a traditional turkish instrument. i also have a kisa sap baglama! i must accept that you play better than me!! :))

[Fatamorganabu]

Thanks a millioin. Maybe just this song worked good. I don't think I can play better than any Turk. At least all Turks I met until now could play better than me. And it's good to see so many people are keeping your musical tradition alive. But I must add I'm not Greek, I'm German, I'm just interested in many different styles like Turkish, Arab, Greek, Persian, just to name a few.

[AndyMCAnderson]

@Fatamorganabu iasu, adelfe! I'm pontian from Georgia, I have purchased cura baglama in Trabzon days ago. what's your tune?

[Fatamorganabu]

@AndyMCAnderson My tuning? It's (from low to high) B A E.

[OkAnSAHIN38]

iiiii one lan saclari ayni bok gibe oglum sizin orda tarak ve su yok mu

[KthoniaEcate]

This is actually pretty good! Nice job.And I must confess I didn't know there were many types of baglama.I only knew of the small one.!Und Grüße aus Griechenland!

[TheCHeYeNNe70]

Bravo!!!! 1000 ********

[ugur24]

well done brother.

[pexlibanis]

nice one dude, but that's not a baglamas!

[Fatamorganabu]

@pexlibanis That's why I've written bağlama. It's Turkish.

[progonolatreia]

prospathei kai o tourkalas na vgalei elliniko aisthima,,,

aide re apo do...

[Fatamorganabu]

Efcharisto. I'm always glad to meet open minded, peaceful kind souls like you. I'm not Turkish, but (even worse) a German, who inter alia loves Greek, Turkish, Arab, Persian and Indian music and doesn't prejudge people for their nationalities, which isn't recommendable for Germans only. Be as rascist and illiberal as you like but keep it under your hat. If nobody forgave mankind would be gone. Cultural exchange iss essential. Btw, don't you agree Greek music got a conspicious Turkish influence?

[vazelas99]

He,he....nice reply man!And you play the baglama really good!Although I might add that you're actually playing more of the Pulp Fiction version!Still rocks,though!

Have you tried any Manolis Chiotis music?Quite fast picking there,too!

[Fatamorganabu]

Thanks. Actually I'm making a few mistakes and my playing is really sloppy. Well, I'll continue my study. And I have to get a bouzouki one day so no Greek won't hurt me anymore when I play Greek songs. But I'll also continue playing them on non-Greek instruments, like my Persian tar or whatever.

You're right, I've made a slower more traditional intro and then turned into the surf version.

I've listened to some of Chiotis' music and it's really nice. I like the jazzy movie stuff.

[SirPsycho414]

you are awesome. I have a baglama as well but I don't think it's the same as this one it's much smaller

[Fatamorganabu]

Thanks a lot.

Then I guess you have a cura, mine is kisa sap. My first one was cura as well.

[SirPsycho414]

I don't know much about them. Is the cura the one that's used in Greek rebetika music? Whichever one is mostly used in Greek music is the one I have.

[akhilles44]

successful

[Michadergeile]

mein gott. top gespielt!!

damit bist du bestimmt der schwarm am lagerfeuer aller weibsen:)

[Fatamorganabu]

Vielen dank. Aber nee, meine bisherige Erfolgsquote beträgt 0 %. Könnte teilweise dadurch bedingt sein, daß ichs nie versucht habe.

[ocarinadiva]

Awesome playing!!

Also, I ate at a Japanese restaurant once and had a Mexican waiter named Roman! = P

[Fatamorganabu]

Thank you. That's at least an as good mixture. Now I wonder how Japanese music played by mariachies would sound like. Or mariachi music on a shamisen.

[Palifiox]

Very fine.

[SIMBANNN]

very very nice kali sinexeia

[maraslikiz]

man sieht das du gitare spielst . Die inspieration findet man auch bei deiner musik.

[BAMTELI12]

hallo wie stimmst du dein saz ?

wieviele Bünden hat dein Saz ?

untere gruppe E mittlere A obere B stimmen ;)

irgend wie ist der klang komisch :S

[Fatamorganabu]

Naja, ist auch eher ein Billigmodell, die Tonqualität ist aber auch schlecht (64 KBit/s). Meistens, so wie bei diesem Video, hab ich sie auch EAB gestimmt (also von hoch nach tief). Werden Sazstimmungen immer so notiert? Hat mich nämlich manchmal verwirrt.

Ach ja, 19 Bünde.

[Troubbadour1023]

this is perfect too maaan really this is crazy congratilation...

[liewsi]

Great!

[kertislagg]

holy shit!

this is awesome!

=D

is there any guitar tab for this? i mean, how could i learn to play it? (on guitar?)

[strongboww666]

actually its kind of "the same" as the pulp fiction theme, and you should find plenty of theses around the net

[Fatamorganabu]

Yes, Dick Dale just turned this song into surf style. Search for "misirlou tab" or "pulp fiction theme tab" and you'll find many of them.

[thraciensis]

It sounds great. Go ahead. Continue. This song is a greco-turkish Ottoman song. It was written in turkish, but translated to greek. It is the fruit of both culture. It is made in Izmir / Smyrna, a big cosmopolitan city in Turkey, then Ottoman Empire.

[Fatamorganabu]

Thanks, I heard some different stories about this songs' specific origin, so I'm not quite sure. But I like Smyrnian music and rebetiko very much. Also other Greek and Turkish music.

[ppavlarass]

very nice.... ;)