Middle Eastern Type Stuff Lesson

[roxybramerc]

man, i should go to bad, i'm tired and must get up early tomorrow, but i just can't stop playing this. thanks for that

greetings from serbia

[scaasi]

@roxybramerc Serbia? awesome! thanks so much for tuning in!!!

[dkrhymes]

This is great thanks for sharing.

All the best

[moh10ly]

This is very good playing Man, You should visit me here in Libya! I'll do you good franchise to start your business among the western visitors here!

[scaasi]

@moh10ly I would LOVE to come visit, once I cure being broke I shall do just that, thank you!

[frank10manning]

This is beautiful music, and it doesn't look very hard. I wish we could see how his right hand strums.

I'm so glad Richie was kind enough to give us this video.

[yeshesdevi]

Thank you for helping me to begin to perceive the guitar differently. My knowledge of guitar has been limited to the folksy G/C/D maybe some minor chords... but my heart is elsewhere musically.

[scaasi]

@yeshesdevi my pleasure entirely, it's nice to escape conventional Western music...I have a long way to go yet but am loving the journey :o)

Richie

[joelakastud123]

There is a very arabic influenced style of flamenco called zambra but vids for it are hard to find

[scaasi]

@joelakastud123 sounds interesting, I shall try to find some more about it....cheers!!!!

[EvilMisha]

Thank you so much!

[WonderPantsiiVI]

The scale is just Root-b9-Maj3-Per4-Per5-b13? Isnt there a major 7 in there as well?

[scaasi]

@WonderPantsiiVI No idea, I failed music theory :o)

[WonderPantsiiVI]

@scaasi Wouldnt you normally add a c# to this scale as well or is this a more traditional scale? There is a big gap towards the end of the scale, which still sounds cool but I always thought that there was one more note to help push a bit more to the tonic. Ill play around with that....its a cool sounding scale regardless

[scaasi]

@WonderPantsiiVI I get what you mean - is the first thing in the morning here so my brain is still in bed.

This is kinda based on Hava Nagila, which I learned, of all things, from Anthrax way back in the 80s.

I use what you said on other pieces, which I have on my facebook 'band' page, not here (I got sick of the 'lookatmyvideos!' messages on here so took my business away.

Thanks for the input! Will add you as a friend so you don't have to wait for approval, so nice to meet polite posters :o)

[WonderPantsiiVI]

@scaasi Yea I never understood why some people feel the need to be critical jerks when you post something. I love the fact that you learned Hava Nagila from Anthrax. That is pretty funny

[xai64]

woah man this is exactly what I'm look for!

i was looking for something exotic to bring to my jam buddies and this is perfect anything else for players of intermediate skill with beginner knowledge would be great!

keep posting stuff!

[krzychonh]

thenk u, I was looking for some arabic guitar sounds, but I'm beginner and I just want tabs

[krzychonh]

Great I spend a lot of time to found tabs like these, if you have more please tell me

[scaasi]

@krzychonh I'll see what I can do for you :o)

[sasaseno]

That so so simple yet so awesome. Love the way way you explained it :-)

[semo2010]

good mate, arab musik the bestest ..

[scaasi]

@semo2010 Thanks! (I agree!)

[scaasi]

@MoeDaBow Thanks my friend, any and all input is appreciated and taken on board, I LOVE the oud, along with the Chinese Erhu it is one of my favourite ever instruments, anything with microtonal finger boards are beautiful as you can play those in-between notes.

I shall try that scale right now, many thanks!!!!

Richie

[scaasi]

@JeffWithAnF I basically just strum the strings that are being used, IF you check out my other video (sheesh, what a plug!) "Spider Dance" you can see it all put together in an improv.

Thanks so much for dropping in, Jeff with an F!!!!!!!

[Crimsonpulse666]

Thank you so much for this lesson. I've always had a loved how mysterious and almost psychadelic arabian music sounds, and thanks to your lesson i can now use it in my own music! Consider yourself subscribed to sir :)

[scaasi]

@Crimsonpulse666 why thank you! Glad to help!!!

[igotwoodhaha]

Hehe I'm half persian and I use these scales a lot. It sounds so great put into a technical death metal song.

[scaasi]

@igotwoodhaha Definitely! My guitar students aren't that impressed 'till they hit the distortion, now they ALL wanna learn it :D

[dappstarr]

omg i was just free playing and improvising and i was looking for some cool easy techniques and this is the scale i discovered on my own painstakingly, and here it is in our riffs! nice. i always play in an arabic style. Playing on and off for 6 yrs. Good lesson.

[scaasi]

@dappstarr Thank you! I see music as something to be shared and as I teach for a living it DOES feel good to pass stuff on for gratis as well.

[madeinph]

ur playing the d phrygian dominant right?

[scaasi]

It is indeed

[josephinemasih]

thank you so much for the tab

[scaasi]

You're welcome :o)

[rymaniscool]

tune to CGCGCC its so middle eastern its cool

[scaasi]

I have a few open C videos on here, I love that tuning {:o)

[ataou56]

that is called the heejaz scale

[scaasi]

Thank you!

Richie

[yaakovms]

it's also the jewish "ahavah rava" scale.

[Spectermonkey]

Sexy scales

[Fur2]

Very cool!

[buruman2]

tabs...?anyone?

[scaasi]

Click 'more info' and it's there :)

[HQHorribleQuality]

thanks man

[xboxliveman177]

thaanks for posting this, i love the sound of stuff like that, it's so ancient sounding and when played on an electric its like, idk just idk. but it's got that sound, it's my favorite music if i had to choose music from a culture, that or the celtic irish type stuff that sounds great.

[Hateeternal2009]

what scale is this..i love the middle eastern guitar tone.very relaxing and mystical...someone please let me know

[gemini86ek]

thanx for this, its pretty helpful

[akhimakhi93]

i bet u play runescape or dota

[scaasi]

Nope, too busy with music to play games bud :)

[HQHorribleQuality]

could you just write the tabs for this scale in the info box please.

[scaasi]

Er, will do that one day, would be easier to write it in standard notation as I rarely use tab BUT will try to for ya :)

[HQHorribleQuality]

k thanks, try to do it soon if you can cuz id really like to learn that.

[scaasi]

Sorry it's taken so long, have been busy on my music course but have tabbed it out for ya, up in the info field :)

[ionulzn]

Excuse me. Can you recommend me a site from where I can get such scales ? thank you

[scaasi]

Try ultimateguitar, or search for videos on here, I actually learnt this by just playing and using the notes that seemed to fit at the time (my self taught playing had more error than trial but seemed to work)

Thanks for watching!

[liljee51]

thanks so so soooo much

[MojtabaParsa2000]

playing a simple scale is not an art. everyone knows what a minor harmonic scale is. for A we have: A B C D E F G# A

and if you turn the D into D# and it comes A B C D# E F G# A, it may make such a scale. but the main arabic scales have something to do with 50cents below a note. they call it "koron". for example, B-koron is a note right between B and A#. Sometimes they show it by "q". If you run this scale: C D Eq F G A Bq, you'll see what a fantastic scale you have played.

[scaasi]

Cool,thanks for the lesson mate!

(Love those microtonal notes,playing with a slide helps get there with these rigid 'western' instruments)

[Sasgrass]

note inbetween B and A#...is that even possible? i mean i play sitar..but i guess i haven't been submerged THAT far into the theory and such of it

[scaasi]

Hi! Did you mean between A# and B? (there's lots of notes between B and A) if you bend the note of A# there is a gray area before it resolves itself to being B, a point where the note is neither one, can be painful, can be beautiful, it all depends on the context of the note, and/or who's listening :)

Cheers

[tuktukskagal]

This was very interesting.

Thankyou.

[khaos11]

Nice video. Great results from some simple instructions.