Persian ney lesson 1

I show how to get started playing the Persian ney. For more info on this instrument see my website http://members.shaw.ca/persianney

Category:

Music

Tags:

• persian
• ney
• iranian
• traditional
• music
• instruments

[heliopijpe]

Kees, Ive been practising for 3 years now, Persian and Turkish Ney,,,  can you please elaborate a bit mor on playing CLEAN in the higher registers. I figured that it would be something that would come in time, but I dont seem to figure it out. Raising the airpressure, or tongue pressure produces a lot of unwanted stress and hiss, and when I see you play, you play a clean high register, in full control, and smoot, can yoi pls provide more guidance for us on how to play CLEAN in the high regstrs?

[persianney]

@heliopijpe

You need to practice a lot. It took me several hours a day for 5 years before it became clean.

Several hours of serious practice 365 days a year for 5 years.

There are ney masters that don't have the clean sound and it sounds fine too, I think whatever sound you make is good. Every ney player has a different voice, just like singers.

[KnowsTheDrill1984]

Id be interested to know if there is anyway to position the instrument so that it doesn't rest on your teeth that way. Being a dentist, I know that overtime, it can change the space between your central incisors.

[persianney]

@KnowsTheDrill1984

No. It should really go in between your 2 front teeth, the bigger the gap the better. So it may move your teeth but in the right way for ney. I don't have space between my front teeth but had my dentist cut a small space, not all the way, between them.

[arashkamalian]

very impressive

[fadimetwalli]

Sir .. Million thx is not enough.

you are a GOD FATHER

you are .. i dont know what to say .. !!

I play keyboards since 15 years .. and play Oud and Violin .. Learning NAY was my nightmare .. disappointed for 2 years .. i couldn`t find the A-B of this instrument .. your video gave the story from A-Z in only 9 minutes ..

Sir .. I owe you a big favor .. and soon or later i'll pay it to you.

[Bilopopi]

Thanks for your video! I've got a question:

I saw many videos of persian ney players and they had a different position of their neys in their mouths. Some stick it right, some stick it left. Is there any difference between that?

[hassanbasafa]

thank you 4 video

[shahilagh]

Beautiful. Impressed by your interest in Ney! I recently uploaded a song from omar faruk with nice Ney too!

[thegreatknight]

@KnowsTheDrill1984 you don't have to stick them make them as close as possible , let the ney touch the tip of ur upper lip and let it have an angle don't out it straight

[MrThompsonpj]

I couldn't get the between the teeth sound, and was worried about the possible effect on my teeth, so I worked out a way by blowing into the top, more like a Shakuhachi; though don't get quite as powerful a sound as I would like.

[DJPOOYABARKHORDAR]

Thanx for the lessons. I have been playing the Ney for many years, and think these lessons are so clear and useful for the beginners ... :)

[saraeghbal]

OMG, I can´t believe a non Persian person can play this hard instrument. I´m playing Ney since i was 9. You are great, and i have so much respect for you.

[persianney]

@psychoplot

In my opinion the sound of the Turkish ney is no match for the Persian ney.