Is there sheet music I could find for this? Is there anyway I could find the music for this even if it's improv? This is really great and I would love to use this as practice and reference for the styles of music that so interest me from more eastern lands from me in US. Thanks for reading!
@dennyyoung215 Thanks! I don't have any sheet music for this video, it was just me noodling around on it and I really had no idea what I was doing at the time. Look up the Phrygian Dominant scale and try playing up and down it very slowly in little 3 and 4 note chunks. It helps to play over a drone note of your tonic on a keyboard if you have one handy.
@dennyyoung215 Thanks! I don't have any sheet music for this video, it was just me noodling around on it and I really had no idea what I was doing at the time. Look up the Phrygian Dominant scale and try playing up and down it very slowly in little 3 and 4 note chunks. It helps to play over a drone note of your tonic on a keyboard if you have one handy.
@remakebeat So if I rename this video to "a flute that plays a sequence of notes containing two augmented seconds and sounding vaguely non-western," would that make you happy? I'm not going to claim that the playing in this even remotely resembles the rules of maqamat, so that's not a relevant term here. If your issue is with the word "scale" in association with any reference to the "middle east" then you have a very big fight ahead of you and I wish you good luck. Salam.
@maddash24seven Lots more songs on my MySpace page and Last.FM pages. Just look up "Ron Perovich" on there. Or, look for the track "Hijaz-Kar Taksim" on iTunes if you want a cleaned up, longer recording of this flute. Thanks for listening!
Good stuff, man! Its such a meditative flute, isn't it? I really love the flutes i bought from Erik. What a talented musican and craftsman. Rare to find both these days.
ok, a few questions please :D... how did you learn this type of improv? what notes do you focus around? where can i buy one of those flutes? is there sheet music that is similar to what you played here? :D
@MsSarita08 I'm all over the place in this video so it's hard to describe! This flute tends to gravitate to the root and 4th when you're playing thanks to the raised leading tones before those notes. Look up "Erik the flute maker" on google to buy one. He calls it the "Arabian" flute. I don't know of any sheet music similar to what I was doing here but I'd suggest checking out vids of the Japanese Shakuhachi flute. My improv in this vid is probably closer to that style really.
@MsSarita08 I have the same flute as him. The only way to really learn to improv like this is to buy the flute and practice! You'd be surprised at how easy it is to do some simple improv with this flute. It's a very melodic scale so you can really go up and down a lot and it'll sound awesome.
i still love the sound good job only advise i would give you is center your self and relax and let it come out your damn good keep up the awsome music and relax and feel it come out
This one isn't concert pitched. It's in tune to itself but the root note doesn't match standard A440 tuning. I think it was close to a G half-flat or so for the root if I remember correctly. Erik also sells concert pitched versions for a bit extra though I think.
@tomjones187 Thank you for the kind words! No digital effects were used, the echo is just the sound of the room. I was playing in my very empty garage to take advantage of the natural reverb in there. Different flutes have different tones, some sound very thin and airy, some can be very low and warm. Depends on the wood and type of flute.
I'm not sure why this older video gets so many more hits than my others, I definitely wish it didn't considering I don't think this is my best work! Some people seem to really like it and a couple now really hate it so it's hard to decide if I should take it down or not.
with all the respect to this "tallented" flute player, this is no where near makam hijaz. if any thing its more like makam nahawand or suzanak. which is a mixture of nahawand and hijaz at the end of the note, i thik this guy is really trying to do the hijaz scale, but he's really off tune.
Nahawand would make sense, without a drone playing I can lose track of the tonic and being more used to hearing a harmonic minor scale I probably drifted toward the 4th as my new root. The flute is obviously not tuned to a strict Hijaz, its scale corresponds to Hijaz-Kar (or Hijaz-hijaz, 2 hijaz tetrachords in a row) but quantized into western notes so there would be no microtones. Either way I think I will remove the reference to any maqamat from the description, out of respect.
this is not arabic music.....nor does it come close...the hijaz scake does not have that tuning... its a completely differant tuning.........not anyone whol plays an augemted second is play arabic music
Give the guy some respect. He's playing a side flute modeled after an arabic type scale. You say all that about the technical aspects, but i know ppl who lived in the middle east who love the flute as if it reminds them of their home land. Stop being so critical. Playing from the heart is always so harshly critisized here on the youboob. Keep the vid up, Ron! Don't listen to da hype.
very beautiful i like it, it's collected by the arts and the wonderfully of this arabian types of flute, this man has amazing skills to play on this flute hopping you complete your success... Sean
This guy is not performing the true arabic flute perfectly - yet he is good -, the true arabic flute touches the heart like nothing else,
unfortunatly i can't even play flute like this guy (and I'm Arabic), watch these videos (sorry didn't find good videos though these are some to show only):
watch?v=QQg56VGdtyo&feature=related
watch?v=MgXhLLCOSBU&feature=related
watch?v=DTg2C4OSLoE&NR=1
you are so close to play Arabic music, but you should keep the rythm you are out of it sometimes.
Any chromatic flute, like silver orchestra flutes or other valved concert flutes. Otherwise you'd need to do a lot of half-holing on a normal 6 hole flute. If you have an instrument you want to try it on, the scale/key this usually appears as in western notation is:
is this the small or medium? and did you add reverb while editing the video?
iwatchvideos57 2 months ago
@iwatchvideos57 It's the Medium. No reverb added, I just played it in my garage and the room had that sound on its own.
ronsmusic76 2 months ago
Is there sheet music I could find for this? Is there anyway I could find the music for this even if it's improv? This is really great and I would love to use this as practice and reference for the styles of music that so interest me from more eastern lands from me in US. Thanks for reading!
dennyyoung215 3 months ago
@dennyyoung215 Thanks! I don't have any sheet music for this video, it was just me noodling around on it and I really had no idea what I was doing at the time. Look up the Phrygian Dominant scale and try playing up and down it very slowly in little 3 and 4 note chunks. It helps to play over a drone note of your tonic on a keyboard if you have one handy.
ronsmusic76 3 months ago
@dennyyoung215 Thanks! I don't have any sheet music for this video, it was just me noodling around on it and I really had no idea what I was doing at the time. Look up the Phrygian Dominant scale and try playing up and down it very slowly in little 3 and 4 note chunks. It helps to play over a drone note of your tonic on a keyboard if you have one handy.
ronsmusic76 3 months ago
There is no such thing as a middle-eastern scale. We have Makams, Maqams and Destgahs. Stay away from our music please. Thanks.
remakebeat 1 year ago
@remakebeat So if I rename this video to "a flute that plays a sequence of notes containing two augmented seconds and sounding vaguely non-western," would that make you happy? I'm not going to claim that the playing in this even remotely resembles the rules of maqamat, so that's not a relevant term here. If your issue is with the word "scale" in association with any reference to the "middle east" then you have a very big fight ahead of you and I wish you good luck. Salam.
ronsmusic76 1 year ago
got some music sheets?
Johnnyboybravo 1 year ago
Where can I find more music like this?
maddash24seven 1 year ago
@maddash24seven Lots more songs on my MySpace page and Last.FM pages. Just look up "Ron Perovich" on there. Or, look for the track "Hijaz-Kar Taksim" on iTunes if you want a cleaned up, longer recording of this flute. Thanks for listening!
ronsmusic76 1 year ago
Wow, great!
Max0Inq 1 year ago
Good stuff, man! Its such a meditative flute, isn't it? I really love the flutes i bought from Erik. What a talented musican and craftsman. Rare to find both these days.
yetzirahsan 1 year ago
This is so beautiful, you look like you were in some type of trance yourself.
Johnneycake 1 year ago
ok, a few questions please :D... how did you learn this type of improv? what notes do you focus around? where can i buy one of those flutes? is there sheet music that is similar to what you played here? :D
MsSarita08 1 year ago
@MsSarita08 I'm all over the place in this video so it's hard to describe! This flute tends to gravitate to the root and 4th when you're playing thanks to the raised leading tones before those notes. Look up "Erik the flute maker" on google to buy one. He calls it the "Arabian" flute. I don't know of any sheet music similar to what I was doing here but I'd suggest checking out vids of the Japanese Shakuhachi flute. My improv in this vid is probably closer to that style really.
ronsmusic76 1 year ago
@ronsmusic76 Thanks so much! btw, I loved this!
MsSarita08 1 year ago
@MsSarita08 I have the same flute as him. The only way to really learn to improv like this is to buy the flute and practice! You'd be surprised at how easy it is to do some simple improv with this flute. It's a very melodic scale so you can really go up and down a lot and it'll sound awesome.
smcmillan88 1 year ago
i still love the sound good job only advise i would give you is center your self and relax and let it come out your damn good keep up the awsome music and relax and feel it come out
CalmingWind 1 year ago
يااااااااااا خوش
moha1911 1 year ago
This one isn't concert pitched. It's in tune to itself but the root note doesn't match standard A440 tuning. I think it was close to a G half-flat or so for the root if I remember correctly. Erik also sells concert pitched versions for a bit extra though I think.
ronsmusic76 1 year ago
hey great playing, im wondering, if you know, what key the flute is in?
BeingBroham 1 year ago
and btw, have you added a reverb/delay to that sound or how come it does sound so fat? i thought flutes make thinner sound
tomjones187 1 year ago
@tomjones187 Thank you for the kind words! No digital effects were used, the echo is just the sound of the room. I was playing in my very empty garage to take advantage of the natural reverb in there. Different flutes have different tones, some sound very thin and airy, some can be very low and warm. Depends on the wood and type of flute.
ronsmusic76 1 year ago
hell no dont take this down man, its top notch! 5 stars
tomjones187 1 year ago
This is nowhere near any of the Arabic scales.
yazalamaful 2 years ago
No offence! U're talented, but u dont feel what u playin!!!
u sound like scandinavian
I'm tellin u as being natural!
best wishes to you!
padma85 2 years ago
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padma85 2 years ago
I'm not sure why this older video gets so many more hits than my others, I definitely wish it didn't considering I don't think this is my best work! Some people seem to really like it and a couple now really hate it so it's hard to decide if I should take it down or not.
ronsmusic76 2 years ago
with all the respect to this "tallented" flute player, this is no where near makam hijaz. if any thing its more like makam nahawand or suzanak. which is a mixture of nahawand and hijaz at the end of the note, i thik this guy is really trying to do the hijaz scale, but he's really off tune.
david613129 2 years ago
Nahawand would make sense, without a drone playing I can lose track of the tonic and being more used to hearing a harmonic minor scale I probably drifted toward the 4th as my new root. The flute is obviously not tuned to a strict Hijaz, its scale corresponds to Hijaz-Kar (or Hijaz-hijaz, 2 hijaz tetrachords in a row) but quantized into western notes so there would be no microtones. Either way I think I will remove the reference to any maqamat from the description, out of respect.
ronsmusic76 2 years ago
this is not arabic music.....nor does it come close...the hijaz scake does not have that tuning... its a completely differant tuning.........not anyone whol plays an augemted second is play arabic music
oudman586 2 years ago
@oudman586
Give the guy some respect. He's playing a side flute modeled after an arabic type scale. You say all that about the technical aspects, but i know ppl who lived in the middle east who love the flute as if it reminds them of their home land. Stop being so critical. Playing from the heart is always so harshly critisized here on the youboob. Keep the vid up, Ron! Don't listen to da hype.
yetzirahsan 1 year ago
I have a small minor on order and he made me a panpipe several months ago. Awesome instruments.
dnp562 2 years ago
very beautiful i like it, it's collected by the arts and the wonderfully of this arabian types of flute, this man has amazing skills to play on this flute hopping you complete your success... Sean
SeanPaul382 2 years ago
Very beautiful. I love Middle Eastern music. It's so soothing to the soul.
autumnenergy 2 years ago 19
@autumnenergy Thanks for the nice complement!
BaderAlbadrany502 1 year ago
This guy is not performing the true arabic flute perfectly - yet he is good -, the true arabic flute touches the heart like nothing else,
unfortunatly i can't even play flute like this guy (and I'm Arabic), watch these videos (sorry didn't find good videos though these are some to show only):
watch?v=QQg56VGdtyo&feature=related
watch?v=MgXhLLCOSBU&feature=related
watch?v=DTg2C4OSLoE&NR=1
you are so close to play Arabic music, but you should keep the rythm you are out of it sometimes.
maxartist3d 2 years ago
watch?v=7BwxkyYwUlo
redajy02 2 years ago
@maxartist3d , You're not Arabic, you're Arab.
=.="
hinatax24 1 year ago
Great flute playing , Im impressed !
5**** Ive got one of the flutes ,, but cant make it sing like you are doing.
Steve
sjeter61 2 years ago
siiiiiick. can this be layed on any flute?
ilanmordechai 2 years ago
Any chromatic flute, like silver orchestra flutes or other valved concert flutes. Otherwise you'd need to do a lot of half-holing on a normal 6 hole flute. If you have an instrument you want to try it on, the scale/key this usually appears as in western notation is:
G Ab B C D Eb F# G
ronsmusic76 2 years ago
very nice buddy..keep it up, u have the talent really
HaPpYpRiNcE1 2 years ago
beautiful playing
I loved this!!
JaiMaJames 3 years ago
I find this so relaxing. I really want to buy one of these now! It paints such vivid images of the hot arabic deserts and camels! lol
well done!
ThePiano1991 3 years ago 4
@ThePiano1991 Not all of Arabia are hot :-). Anyway, welcome here :-)
BaderAlbadrany502 1 year ago
This is the medium actually. Just over 17"
ronsmusic76 3 years ago
BEAU-TIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!
aldebussy 3 years ago 3
Great...5 stars and more
ChromeGuitar1 3 years ago 3
nice try !
metallico2006 3 years ago
Dear Ron.
what a nice flute and taksim, bravo ! keep the videos coming.
Steen
geesmaildk 3 years ago