Exotic scale bamboo flute

More improv on my small bamboo flute from Erik the Flute Maker. Look him up on Google if you want to get one, they're great! He refers to this one on his site as the medium "Arabian Scale" flute, non-concert tuning.
Recorded in my garage, about the best acoustic spot I've found in my apartment yet.

For a nice example of a song with this flute look up "The Twins" by Ron Perovich (me) on iTunes.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• flute
• taksim
• improv
• amateur
• woodwind
• world
• music
• World Music
• bamboo flute
• bansuri
• exotic
• bellydance
• belly dance
• exotica
• instrumental
• meditation
• meditative flute
• relaxation
• middle east

[iwatchvideos57]

is this the small or medium? and did you add reverb while editing the video?

[ronsmusic76]

@iwatchvideos57 It's the Medium. No reverb added, I just played it in my garage and the room had that sound on its own.

[dennyyoung215]

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!

[ronsmusic76]

@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]

@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]

There is no such thing as a middle-eastern scale. We have Makams, Maqams and Destgahs. Stay away from our music please. Thanks.

[ronsmusic76]

@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.

[autumnenergy]

Very beautiful. I love Middle Eastern music. It's so soothing to the soul.

[ThePiano1991]

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!

[smcmillan88]

@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.

[BaderAlbadrany502]

@ThePiano1991 Not all of Arabia are hot :-). Anyway, welcome here :-)

[BaderAlbadrany502]

@autumnenergy Thanks for the nice complement!