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Last good song you listened to?

prodigy said:
Fav Rap Groups all time
1. A Tribe Called Quest
2. The Roots
3. Gang Starr
4. Outkast
5. Wu-Tang
honorable mention: Main Source

Outkast would have a run for #1, but like i said I haven't liked any of their albums since the 90's.
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I can respect this. Id say Tribe has 3 good rap albums, just like OutKast. In my opinion, OutKasts first three albums are better than Tribes, but hey, to each his own.

Id slot em:

1)OutKast
2)Roots
3)Tribe
4)GangStarr
5)Wu
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isa0GlhRZYY

If you're not feeling the sax, Id suggest fast forwarding it to the 4 minute mark. Probably one of the best violin solos I have ever heard.
 
dalamon said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isa0GlhRZYY

If you're not feeling the sax, Id suggest fast forwarding it to the 4 minute mark. Probably one of the best violin solos I have ever heard.
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Thanks bro, it's very good. I'd renewed my violin's strings yesterday, now I saw this, altough it's out of my style(I do maqam music) I'm trying to imitate that solo. Of course it only destroys my neighbors' sunday. :)
 
MK11 said:
Thanks bro, it's very good. I'd renewed my violin's strings yesterday, now I saw this, altough it's out of my style(I do maqam music) I'm trying to imitate that solo. Of course it only destroys my neighbors' sunday. :)
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Destroys? Id make hot, passionate love to my neighbour if he played that solo. Upload a video if you manage to get a decent crack at the solo :) Maqam music is Turkish, Im assuming?
 
dalamon said:
Destroys? Id make hot, passionate love to my neighbour if he played that solo. Upload a video if you manage to get a decent crack at the solo :)
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It destroys because I play horribly :( Right now I'm just trying to decipher and memorize it, then I will write down it and practise a few months, by that time I'll be able to perform it, well, not well but not as horrible as I do now. Lol, it's a very long and complex solo which requires pro skills and all kind of violin tecniques. There is no harm for me to confess that it's way beyond me to perform such a solo, as of now, plus I'd had a break with my violin for some years 'cause of my military years.

dalamon said:
Maqam music is Turkish, Im assuming?
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Maqam(makam in turkish) is basically a musical system(And also refers to each mold of melody types(modes) like the scales in the western music). It's the base of the middle eastern music. It is the main structure of the traditional, classical and partially folk musics of the Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Azeri and some of the Balkan Musics and constitutes partially in Indian music or some of far eastern music.

You can think it as an advanced microtonal music.

For example, in the western music we devide octave into 12 semitones, like this; A, Ab(B#), B, C, Cb(D#), D, Db(E#), E, F, Fb(G#), G, Gb(A#), A...

In Turkish makam system, we devide same octave into 53 equal microtones(we call each one of them as koma, comma in eng) to produce 8 notes(the octave) with non-equal distances.

Thanks to this little commas, one can produce rich and soulful melodies. But a person who is unused to hear makam music(or other microtonal musics) can find it strange at first. Lol, I've even heard many pro musicians saying "it's out of tune" when they first listened to a traditional middle eastern music.

Here are a couple of violin examples, performing Taksim(improvisation in makam rules) in Hicaz Makam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77QwqslLASE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBW1V5uyfMQ
 
MK11 said:
It destroys because I play horribly :( Right now I'm just trying to decipher and memorize it, then I will write down it and practise a few months, by that time I'll be able to perform it, well, not well but not as horrible as I do now. Lol, it's a very long and complex solo which requires pro skills and all kind of violin tecniques. There is no harm for me to confess that it's way beyond me to perform such a solo, as of now, plus I'd had a break with my violin for some years 'cause of my military years.



Maqam(makam in turkish) is basically a musical system(And also refers to each mold of melody types(modes) like the scales in the western music). It's the base of the middle eastern music. It is the main structure of the traditional, classical and partially folk musics of the Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Azeri and some of the Balkan Musics and constitutes partially in Indian music or some of far eastern music.

You can think it as an advanced microtonal music.

For example, in the western music we devide octave into 12 semitones, like this; A, Ab(B#), B, C, Cb(D#), D, Db(E#), E, F, Fb(G#), G, Gb(A#), A...

In Turkish makam system, we devide same octave into 53 equal microtones(we call each one of them as koma, comma in eng) to produce 8 notes(the octave) with non-equal distances.

Thanks to this little commas, one can produce rich and soulful melodies. But a person who is unused to hear makam music(or other microtonal musics) can find it strange at first. Lol, I've even heard many pro musicians saying "it's out of tune" when they first listened to a traditional middle eastern music.

Here are a couple of violin examples, performing Taksim(improvisation in makam rules) in Hicaz Makam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77QwqslLASE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBW1V5uyfMQ
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Ohh man, I don't care if you're not able to master it, Id love to see how close you get to nailing it though :) I love music, Im a crude self-taught guitarists, trying to learn musical scales, and octaves myself.

I would rep you for such an informative post, but It seems that I must spread some around before giving it to you again. Regardless, my parents were born in Kosovo, so much of their Balkan music resembles a lot of Turkish, and Arabic (mores Turkish, I think) music. I know my pops used to be a massive Ibrahim Tatlises fan back in the heyday, he'd play his cassettes in the car as he'd drive me to school back when I was little. Throw some of your music on youtube or something, Im sure a lot of posters here would love to see what you've got :)
 
dalamon said:
Ohh man, I don't care if you're not able to master it, Id love to see how close you get to nailing it though :) I love music, Im a crude self-taught guitarists, trying to learn musical scales, and octaves myself.

I would rep you for such an informative post, but It seems that I must spread some around before giving it to you again. Regardless, my parents were born in Kosovo, so much of their Balkan music resembles a lot of Turkish, and Arabic (mores Turkish, I think) music. I know my pops used to be a massive Ibrahim Tatlises fan back in the heyday, he'd play his cassettes in the car as he'd drive me to school back when I was little. Throw some of your music on youtube or something, Im sure a lot of posters here would love to see what you've got :)
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Lol, you're determined to make me look silly. I really don't want to be one of those guys, "Hey look at me, how wonderful I can't play this!". No my friend, believe it or not, I still have some charisma left. And obviously don't want to lose it. But I may have a record of it if I nail a decent crack. But you gotta give me a few months for that because I have only my weekends to practise.

Balkans' music has deep bonds with Turkish music in both ways influence wise. The most prominent example for resemblance can be shown as the 9/8 rhythm, one of the most fun odd time beats. We say as an idiom, "Our hearts beat in the 9/8 rhythm" to refer the strong bond of the turkish people with the music, especially for the turkish gypsies.

Tatlıses is a phenomenon in his genre(His music is arabesque). Although I don't like the style, I can say he was a (although being untrained) genious musically and had given tons of masterpieces.

I can definitely feel for your music love and admire your guitar passion. I myself tried it many times but failed every single time and gave up. Anyway, from our conversation I assume that the music will always a big part of your life, so while you let it be in that way, as my humble advice, I say, don't let yourself to be one dimensional, try to listen every good music from all over the world, there are unbelievable guitarists in europe and middle east for example. You can try a second or even a third instrument. You can try making your own music, in the style you like most. In additon, it would be a huge gift for yourself if you learn the musical notation, it will remove many barriers and lots of hard things in your way.

In the return of my great(!) advices, I request from you to keep posting nice and quality songs. This thread is one of my fav threads so far despite having some creepy song offers too.
 
Not the full song, but Garbage is back!! I have a ticket to see them in LA on 4/9/12!! It will be my first time ever seeing them play live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz3rtFIbAes&feature=colike
 
[video=youtube_share;sjCw3-YTffo]https://youtu.be/sjCw3-YTffo

Link is blocked, but its worth the click over to youtube
 
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For the fanboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ_RQcCxxOg&feature=related

(I hope you think about this when I'm felting you tonight)
 
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