How To Play The Lyre Of The Ancient Hebrews (5 of 7)

The 5th in a series of a re-run of my "online lyre lessons"...this time mercifully recorded with my nice sparkly new "geeky" laptop webcam! ;o) In this lesson, I will show you how to play "Yigdal", in the Natural Minor Mode. A studio quality recording of this lovely traditional Shabbat Hymn can be heard on track 22 of my debut album, "King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel" ...

My Albums of Ancient Lyre Music are available, anywhere in the world, from iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/michael-levy/id4324920

They are also available from Amazon MP3 Store:

http://amzn.to/eyI34H

Also, my 3 CD albums, "King David's Lyre; Echoes of Ancient Israel", "An Ancient Lyre" & "Lyre of the Levites" are available anywhere in the world from CD Baby:

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/MichaelLevy

For full details, and all the historical research behind my myriad of "Musical Adventures in Time Travel", please visit my official website:

http://www.ancientlyre.com

Many thanks for watching!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shalom
• Shofar
• Ancient
• Israel
• Temple
• of
• Jersualem
• Dead
• Sea
• Scrolls
• Sinai
• Qumran
• Herod
• Harp
• Jewish
• Klezmer
• Shabbat
• Synagogue
• Kabbalah
• Kotel
• Western
• Wall
• Mystical
• ירושלים
• ישראל
• Acropolis
• Greece
• Sparta
• Roman
• Mesopotamia
• Parthenon
• Ur
• Pyramids
• Seikilos
• Thebes
• Egypt
• Rameses
• Pharaohs
• Nile
• Akhenaten
• Tutankhamun
• Cleopatra
• Coptic
• Homer
• Solomon
• Moses
• Exodus
• Torah
• Bible
• Jesus
• Christian
• Christianity
• Judasim
• History
• Matisyahu
• Klezmatics
• Itzhak
• Perlman
• Ofra
• Haza

[MAT0R0]

Whoa. The Lyre is a pretty interesting instrument. Its like a Kalimba, Harp, Guitar combined! It seems easy and sounds pretty cool. Are there any special tunings so that you can play aimlessly beautiful music for the Lyre? I like instruments that has that feature to it, because you can get a feel of the instrument before actually playing some cool songs, and maybe some viking songs! ^_^

[Klezfiddle1]

@MAT0R0 It is certainly the most versatile instrument I have ever learnt to play!...the combination of finger-plucked & plectrum plucked tones is like playing a harp & guitar simultaneously! Regarding tunings, the most amazing scale to freely improvise on, is the mystical Middle Eastern "Hijaz" mode: D#EFG#ABCD#EF A complete list of tunings is given in te "Online Lyre Lessons" section of my "ancientlyre" website - URL given on my Youtube Channel Page...

[carlyleighb]

wonderful lesson!!

[Audinos]

This song is also known as Leoni and is found in many Christian hymnals as "The God of Israel Praise."