for those of you who cannot buy from Snocap (anyone outside the US), the lessons are also available for sale via paypal on the website: maqamlessons.com
I will also be offering free group classes at which I will record lessons. see the website for more details!
for the FREE INTRODUCTORY LESSON & FREE SAMPLE LESSONS in Maqam Nahawand, Rast, Bayati, & Hijaz, please visit:
maqamlessons.com
Maqam is to Arabic music what "Raga" or "mode" is to Indian or Western music. It is a vocabulary of melodies & melodic phrases, a language out of which the music is built. Each Maqam has a different character, and different characteristic melodies. To learn Maqam, you have to learn all of these melodies, just as you have to learn lots of words and phrases to learn a language. These maqam lessons are structured like "language tapes"--I play a phrase for you, and you imitate it back. Please take the "introductory lesson" first, and try out the sample lessons. part two of each of those sample lessons is included here to buy.
for a more detailed explanation of the theory behind maqam, please visit:
maqamworld.com
