Avishai Cohen - Leolam

The middleeastern 7 vibe...3-4, unlike the usual fusion & jazz 7, which is more like 4-3. Great oud solo by Amos Hoffman. While the band keeps it cool, Avishai is really on fire, and he sings too. 2009

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Music

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• avishai
• cohen
• shai
• maestro
• karen
• malka
• amos
• hoffman
• itamar
• doari
• leolam

[titusbeertsen]

The meter seems te be 13/8 (5/8 + 4/4). Not quite sure though... What do you guys think?

[emmadetten]

No you're right. 12345 - 1 2 3 4. Especially clear in the 2 chord vamp piano solo. Man what an infectuous groove.

[ktkdrummer]

He uses a similar phrasing of 13 in Smash

[xatzidakis]

I would stick with the 3/4 opinion.The groove can be different in differend minds but the metric modulation as said before,is 'a cote de'r 3/4..

[joebassplayer]

@concordguitarlessons it's no way as complicated as you're trying to make it. The tune just has unusual phrasing, over what is clearly a 7/8 groove throughout. There's no way Avishai though of it in any other way.

[lluannr]

The shakers play 3+2+2, end of story.

[arewolfe]

Definitely not 4/4. Not even close. It's a group of 5 then a group of 4, then another group of 4. It repeats for the entire song. A fast 13/8 or medium 13/16.

[rivkamord]

What are y'all going on about - 7, 3-4, 4-3, 13/16?!

It's 4/4!! At the beginning the darbuka player is just playing around with not putting the "Doon" on the one, blurring the bar line distinction but it keeps on 4/4 the whole piece.

This is majestic and moving.

[concordguitarlessons]

This is nuts. I count it as 13/16 (5 + 4 + 4). "Ta-Ki-Ta --- Ta-Ka ---- Ta-Ka-Di-Mi -- Ta-Ka-Di-Mi" The only other way I can look at it is in 3/4 with a metric modulation inside each measure. For example: The first beat is divided into 5 (a quintuplet). So pretend the tempo on beat 1 is 80 bpm (for ease of understanding). Beats 2 and 3 speed up to 100 bpm, each of which is divided in 4. AKA, after the first beat: 16th-note quintuplet = 16th-note.

[hitobedut]

I Wanna dance !! yeeah

[integral844]

Leolam, that means "You may never know" In that song avishai cohen is telling us that you catholics are dumbs as you allways speak about god as if he was our nextdorr neighbour lol

[integral844]

@larberto she is hot isnt she

[larberto]

I love Karen Malka.