Music theory – Learn Arabic and Middle Eastern music

Do you want to improve and enhance your Arabic or middle eastern music skills?

Are you struggling to decide how and where you can learn an ancient musical art?

OR you are simply curious to know how Arabic or middle eastern music different from western music?

If you have answered YES to any of the above questions, then you are at the right place…!!!

This course is right for you. In this course, you will discover a new and a different concept in music that will change the whole way you will look at the music.

Learn from a professional musician who has 15+ years of experience with music and teaching music.

This course is not designed for beginners, but for amateur musicians and for music students, who want to improve and enhance their Arabic and middle eastern music skills. If you have a desire to improve and enhance your Arabic and middle eastern music skills and willingness to invest your time in doing a lot of practice and practice and practice, then this course is for you!

At the end of this course, you will feel comfortable to perform and work with Arabic and Middle Eastern music!

The purpose of this course is to make you understand the middle eastern music, discover what makes it different from western music, as well as developing an artistic personality which will be free from the usual music limits.

Middle eastern music is a form of ancient art, unlike western music. Middle eastern music did not evolve properly because it depends on hearing and was rarely written. This made middle eastern music theory extremely difficult to study and relied on practice. But believe me, the original middle eastern music is simple and has so much potential for creativity.

The contents of this course can be applied to any musical instrument but preferably the ones that allows you full control on the pitch, such as Oud, Ney, Qanun etc can be used to practice. Due to the nature of the Arabic or middle eastern music, you might not be able to perform all of the scales which you will learn in this course on certain instruments such as guitar or piano or non-middle eastern keyboard instruments.

This course will not be just something to just watch. It is a step-by-step guide. I will teach you the tricks and provide you with exercises to practice.

This course is well designed in NINE different sections.

Section 1: Introduction

Here in this section you will understand the main features of middle eastern music. Understand what makes middle eastern music different than the western music and you will be prepared for the next advanced topics.

Section 2: Quarter tone

Quarter tone has its roots in the music of the ancient middle eastern music. In this section you will learn how to produce the quarter tone.

Section 3: Ajnas

Ajnas, meaning “types”. In this section you will learn the different types or building blocks of middle eastern music. A jins is a set of stepwise pitches used to build an Arabic maqam, or melodic mode.

Section 4: Maqamat

The Arabic maqamat is a melody type. It describes the scales in middle eastern music. Here you will learn how to connect ajnas, how to analyse a middle eastern scales

Section 5: Transposition

In music, transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval. Transposition in middle eastern music which will be much more easier if you get an idea about it.

Section 6: Families

There are different Maqam families where we will categories similar scales. You will discover how these families work in this section.

Section 7: Switching

Learning the switching is an important topic as we do not rely on harmony. Switching emphasis to the music itself.

Section 8: Hearing skills and Ornamentation

This section will help you to improve your hearing skills. It consists of exercises to test your hearing skills. We will also learn the Ornamentation in this section with an exercise.

Section 9: Overview

In this last section of this course, we will summarize all of our learnings throughout the course.

You will have to invest your time to do a lot of practice, so come prepared with a laptop and enough amount of coffee. I will be using older songs in my examples because the modern middle eastern music is very westernized, and I do not want to teach you something you already know about.

The goal of this course is to create an artistic personality, free from the usual music limits!

You will experience songs in Arabic, you might not understand the language but you can see how middle eastern musicians think. And you will be able to expose yourself to a new culture

So, what are you thinking? Go ahead and click on the “Enroll Now” button.

You have 30 days money-back guarantee and lifetime access to the course…!!! See you inside the course…!!!

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