The Mesmerising sound of the OUD (Ancestor of guitar!)
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2024
- The tale of the Arabic Oud, the predecessor of the guitar.
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Anyone else notice how clearly and simply Kamal was able to teach those Arabic concepts and relate them to Western music? Phenomenal teacher and crazy command of music theory.
Just when I was finally beginning to figure out modes, Paul has to go and drop this video!
Thank you so much for such very kind words...but one never stops learning, discovering and passing on the knowledge!
I really enjoyed that part as well. There's more to music than what we know in the west. I'd like to know more about this as well as the similar aspects of Indian Ragas so I can compare/contrast to Western scales.
Anyway, I play flamenco and there is a huge amount of tonality and respect that comes from the great and fantastic Oud! I need to buy one soon for myself.
De arabic dirty major 😂
He is not a very good Oud player Honestly …
My Dad passed away yesterday morning, and I just wanted to say that we watched your videos in the hospital every day the last few weeks. Thankyou Paul, you are an amazing content creater and guitarist.
Sorry for your loss
My condolences, stay strong brother.
Sorry for your loss bro ; I had the same situation as you have now , I'm sure everything will get better ; stay strong buddy...
May Allah have mercy on his soul and strengthen your heart to endure the pain and longing of parting and unite you with him in paradise. Remember this life is temporary and short, and I just realised I don't cherish my parents enough and time is fleeting. My heart goes out to you 🙏
You did wonderfully as a son sharing such beautiful sounds and special moments together with him before his transition.
Seeing Paul even mildly uncomfortable with an instrument is so alien
Wait till he tries a saxaboom 😂
@@bicuspidmarsI’ve been waiting for that video. He should try to get Jack Black to collaborate.
honestly makes me feel a little better about my own not-playing-so-well
i think it's not the instrument. it is more the uncommon inbetween notes, which sound alien to westerners. ;)
@@pandadayi
Exactly, when it comes to Arabic music there is so much to digest before you can play it as a westerner musician, it takes a while to develope a taste for quarter tones and Arabic Maqams.
Holy shit 😂 Kamal was my guitar teacher 17 years ago! So happy to see him here on this channel!
Is he Syrian? Cause I feel like I know him too!
I'm Jordanian by the way! 😊
@@kamalmusallamHi Kamal!! ❤
@@rockstarali99 hey Rock star
@@kamalmusallam ayy same! Nice to see some jordanian talents!
The duet at the end made me so happy! It's such a treat to see people make music together.
Here is a link to the original song
ua-cam.com/video/U36XXexk8No/v-deo.html
Wow Paul you've outdone yourself. Having Middle Eastern heritage I was always aware of the role the Oud played in the development of the modern guitar. Very happy you are reintroducing this to a Western audience.
I’m Lebanese and grew up hearing the Oud all the time, loved this video so much!!!
Palestinian here. I have an oud that I brought home from my last trip there. I learned more in that video than the four previous years of owning the instrument.
Do a search for this group: 3MA - you will hear such beauty
West asia
The fact that the oud is not tuned right pisses me off
Nothing more metal than The Oud.
Heavy metal 🥲
It’s wild how something so simple as a half flat can totally give such a unique identity to the sound.
😮
This is awesome! I am a guitarist from Holland and I am learning to play the Oud for 6 months now. Unlocking microtonal Maqams is just magical. I am working on Maqam Rast, it's like stepping onto another planet! The eastern musical tradition is just so rich! there is so much to discover for me as a musician from a western country! Thank's for sharing!
wait until u dive in Maqam SABA u will hear real sadness . Listen to iraqi school of maqam . and Rast is a beautiful and difficult maqam to deal with . setting the mode with this Maqam need a master and hours of hearing .
Lebanese-American guitar player here, thanks for this beautiful video on the Oud, Paul.
What a phenomenal teacher in Kamal, too!
Makam, what an amazing concept. It's like a parallel world. So rich.
fun fact it was used in islamic prayer too to gave the recitation more emotion and meaning, it used the maqam (scale) trough singing like recitation
The word "Maqam" is truely loaded with meanings, not only in music, but also in spirituality and Sufism, a.k.a Islamic mysticism.
I've never seen such a great description of the unique characteristics of the oud. The contrast with the guitar and Western scales was fascinating.
The blend of Middle Eastern melodies and classic western styles has also produced some awesome music.
I'm tunisian and when I was young I picked a guitar as my instrument. one of my friends has Oud and we used to play duets together. this reminds of that moment. thanks ! Now I'm thinking of getting Oud and finding again that joy of learning a new instrument
i am a guitarist from Tunisia and my dad also plays oud and he was so happy by watching this video with me
The real star of this video is the Oud player Kamal Musallam who explained this music so clearly and knew how to explain this to western musicians.
Thanks! I'm so glad it was useful 🙏
Wow the maqams on guitar are my new obsession
How do you do it though, quarter bends? 🤔
Ehhhh it's ronquillo
@@viktorarsovski1685 they have to be constructed with quarter tone frets
Check out Fernando Perez- world music guitars for that.
The first song at 2:33 el bent el shalabia it is a classic song for Lebanese artists a singer called fairuz
Thanks for the info, mate! 🫶 Beautiful song. I recognised the song as well but I only knew the Turkish cover version of it which is called "Böyle gelmiş böyle geçer dünya"
What a beautiful episode. A friend of mine is Lebanese. One night, a family friend was playing the Oud. If I remember correctly, as it was a long time ago, he said the Oud, or al Oud, is where Europeans get the word lute. The men playing and the woman singing in this video were truly amazing.
this is probably one of my favourite videos on your channel man, keep on walking your path and sharing everything music related for those of us unable to have access to these pearls of knowledge otherwise.
Moroccan guitarist here, thank your for showing world how wonderful is the oud, i invite to check the guembri instrument and gnawa music and it influences with blues, it might interest you ! also i love your content, the way you share your experience makes me feel like im living in it.
Same here.
I think both Guembri (or Hajhouj) and Kora would make for great episodes laying down the foundation of blues and jazz.
I would love to see that!
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Zidni m3ak, paul needs to drop the guembri video soon
Even the name and the meaning of this legendry instrument is beautiful!
It's the greatest musical instrument! Oud is our heart!
Thanks to Kamal
Omar from Saudi Arabia.
I just LOVE the Oud... If you haven't, listen to some music by Anouar Brahem. ❤
Travelled to Morocco a few years ago, stayed for almost three months. In one of the cities I went there was a traditional restaurant where almost every night an old musician would come and play on the terrace... I was going there to listen to him more than for the (excellent) food. It was magical. 🙂
Thank you for sharing and introducing the Oud and the arabic music to us.
was this in Fez ?
@@chahinekasmi2980 I think so, yes. 🙂
Not totally sure though. My memory isn't THAT good anymore, and I travelled all around the place all the time. But I'd say yes, Fez. 🙂
The restaurant was upstairs, with a large terrace.
Anouar Brahem--- my most played artist these days.
When this came across this in my feed, I was so excited. I found an oud several years ago in a western frontier town style market, in a merchant's back room. I paid what he bought it for plus sales tax, 110 USD. I later discovered that it was made. in Basra, Iraq. It must have had an interesting journey to make it to small town Oklahoma, USA from Iraq.
Thanks Paul for your open mindset and eagerness to still be a student. (talib طَالِب in Arabic). You've edited the video nicely with the name of the scales written in Arabic. You inspire me a lot in my Middle Eastern journey with playing the Oud and learning Arabic.
Paul, thank you for bringing us along. That was awesome 🙏🏼
Fascinating!
Thank you, Paul (and everyone else involved in the making of this video)! 🙏🏻🤍
It was nice seeing you in Dubai, even nicer to know you had this filmed during your visit. Thank you for sharing a bit of our culture ❤
That was the best seventeen minutes I have spent in a long time. Thanks, Paul
Yesss! I've been waiting so long for a video about the oud!
І would really love to see more arabic music related videos. Arabic music is so different and special
So nice to see cultures coming together. People need to learn more from each other ❤
love the electric guitar at the end. getting those half-flats and half-sharps with just slight but very precise bends is amazing.
Also blues music has it
Paul, I’m so happy you did this!!
You brought tears of joy to my heart, I could feel your respect and appreciation to the music that I grew up listening to, thank you so deeply for this wholesome video!
Awesome! Thank you for this short insight into the arabic world of music.🙏
I think they have very interesting concepts and especially the oud has a very mesmerizing sound.
It's almost as if I'm in trance whenever I hear one play. Just can't break loose of it. ❤
I'd appreciate more videos about the oud or arabic guitar play in general. Mahmoud's playing style was absolutley inspiring! 🔥
Regardless of the topic Paul David’s videos always throw me back into playing guitar. He also taught me almost everything I know. Thank you Paul!
IVE WANTED A VID ON OUD FOR SO LONG!! thank Paul
the arabic oud and the greek bozouki are some of the coolest stringed instrument sounds imo, they really sound beautiful and have such rich culture behind them, love it!
Bozouki probably more complex
The site of origin of the oud seems to be Central Asia. The ancestor of the oud, the barbat was in use in PRE ISLAMIC PERSIA.
Since the Safavid period, its name shifted from barbat to oud which was taken up by Arab world.
I'm not sure but i don't think the origin of the oud is arabic.
Sad that Islam bans musical instruments
@@AERYS. No actually, Islam doesn't allow certain things about the content of songs that is should not be against the morals and teaching of islam, containing violence, encouraging for doing bad stuff. Cheers
There's so much magic in the sound of the Oud. It's so easy to drift off into a dream state with this sound.
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What an insane piece of audiovisual production Paul. This is insane.
Nice one. Two small tibdits of information: one is that to middle eastern and balkan ears those don't sound exotic but "home". The second is that they convey a mood, the same way hearing like a blues wailing guitar (think of BB King solo) you get into a certain mood.
I just found this channel and i can say is gold. I didn't know about this instrument, but i feel motivated to learn about Arabic music. Thanks for this!
i could watch and rewatch this video... amazing work david!
I've always loved the harmonic minor sound. The Oud is just able to take that a step farther, to a whole different level of awesome.
That guitar at the 16:00 is SICK!
One of your best shows. Great guests and appreciate how you told the whole story!
watching this made me really happy that people still be happy while looking at the precious history and it was very much informative too, thanks Paul.
This is a completely different universe of music. So much to explore here. Paul, thanks for this video, as well as for every other piece of content that you do
Man what a quality your doing great Paul! Keep up the great work❤
I don't play the guitar (I'm a singer at heart!) but I've been enjoying this channel (breaking down the riffs from classic rock is always amazing). I've always loved the sound of the oud and LOVE this exploration. Thank you!
I was wishing for this video to go on for another 4 hours man 😅 so much beauty in oud once your ear gets used to it, it gives you a feeling that no other instrument ever could ❤
The thing I find really interesting about the concept of modulation is that it’s really present in turkey and the arabic world. In other places in the middle east like in Iran, the pieces rarelly modulates and like and it’s more common to just stay in one mode and to explore all the possibilities that that one mode can offer.
An other thing I want to touch on is that the concept of « quarter tones » (first of all isn’t really an appropriate term because these pitches aren’t exactlly in between two western half steps), is that depending on the region you’re in, the pitch of these notes will change. For instance : in Turkey, these pitches can become pretty sharper than the rest of the middle east. Also, I’ve been told by an oudist friend of mine that generally, these notes played by levantine musicians (the levant consists of countries like Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, etc), will be pretty flatter than the rest of the region (I’ve been told that in Iran, these pitches are pretty flatter as well). But it can also depends on the taste of the player or the context in which thses certain notes are played in : depending on if you’re playing an ascending line of a maqam, or depending on a certain maqam you’re playing, the pitch of thses notes will vary.
bro why is this so uncommon in the western area, I love this
Bravo to you, Paul, for bringing this intro to the oud and a whole other concept of musical scales and modes. Lovely and interesting!
Fascinating!!! Thx Paul for this journey on the oud.obviously Kamal is a fantastic teacher and musician
Such a beautiful and mysterious instrument. I need one.
This was incredible! As a metalhead with lots of phrygian in my daily fix, I can't begin to state how much I love this kind of traditional music. Thanks to everyone for keeping it so alive!
Defining oud and Arabic maqams from scratch is really interesting. Paul is so enthusiastic 🤩. I really liked it although I’m an Arab who listens to oud 24/7. ♥️
Thanks for providing a greater appreciation for a music stile that has influenced many artists over the years.
Wow... just wow... that was amazing. We need more of this. I really feel hungry for more knowledge on Maqams and Middle Eastern techniques.
here in Morocco, the oud has a religious character, especially in Ramadan, when we hear it we feel nostalgic in some way, maybe cuz this instrument is used in Andalusin the past, but thanks Paul for this great video, I hope you visit morocco someday and make a video about the GUEMBRI is such beautiful instrument sound like bass but it has more classical sound
What an enlightening video. We need more of this in our world.
Thank you for sharing the beauty of this musical culture with all of us.
This was awesome…those microtones where out of the world and out of our western sounds, so mesmerizing thank you all’ of the musicians here and the kind arabic lesson.
that was an entire journey. wow. thank you.
Sounds wonderful! Such a lot of emotion carried in those sounds.
Thank you for the appreciation and love you're showing towards the instrument and the very different sounds of Mideast!
Very informative even for someone who kinda plays the oud.
Fabulous. Loved the guy playing regular electric Arabic style. Great stuff.
I like this format, Paul! Very well done! Hope to see more content like this.
Thank you for putting this together, very informative and enjoyable video
16:15 Crazy-fast trills.
the content and production quality is great!
Paul Davids Explores Strings & Theory of the World. I do hope this becomes a regular feature.
Great video, Paul. Nice to see the Oud getting the respect it deserves.
Thank you for this beautiful documentary! ❤️
Always loved the sound of this music. So cool to learn how the tonal variations work to make it happen. Plus Davids' willingness to get out of his comfort zone. Thanks for posting.
This is really interesting and very well done. I learned a lot today. And I am inspired. Nice work Paul
Ive been addicted to the sound of the oud for awhile now, especially the artist Anouar Brahem
I once had the chance to play an oud during a school guitar lesson and It has to be one of the coolest instruments I've tried. I found it very difficult to play of course but it had such a particular feel and sound that left a real impression on me
Thank you for sharing this adventure! I’ve always been curious about this instrument and culture and you brought it to my hands. Feels authentic too, wonderful special people 🙌
Oud is such a big culture instrument in my country (Syria) that I personally have never understood even tho I play classical, acoustic, and electric guitar for over than 14 years. I even sat with friends and they tried to explain what Makam is but I was never able to understand the note between both notes xD. You just made me understand what Oud in such a simple way thanks to your creativity and HUGE thanks to the teacher for his way of explaining the Oud. You are truly amazing Paul, THANK YOU!
Paul you always have the most interesting topics. Thank you for broadening my interests.
An amazing video Paul! It was a good idea to broaden your musical background with Arabic maqams that each of them gives a certain mood or feeling. Try to do more videos with Oud players!
Beautiful instrument.
I borrowed once from my teacher in Greece and I was able to play it in an empty basketball stadium!!
I highly recommend it to everyone...
It's godlike!!!
This is a wonderful video - awesome work and beautiful playing
Absolutely enjoyed and loved this video. Fantastic introduction to Oud through the eyes of a brilliant guitarist. Thank you Paul.
Wow! I love all those tones. And the concept of makans: what a door to an entire universe of creative, inspired musicality.
i noticed how their facial expression changes immediately when they start to play oud and also it changes from maqam to maqam, as if they were intering an another planet, so amazing and richful experience
Wonderful and informative, loved this!!
What an awesome video! Thank you Paul!
That was really cool Paul thank you. Beautiful sounding instruments.
Here is one of best Oud virtuoos ever; ua-cam.com/video/lQjN8ITWqDc/v-deo.html
Great video! This has motivated me to make myself an oud! Thanks to master Musallam for the amazingly clear explanations!
fantastic video Paul, thanks so much!!!! from Italy!
Love this sound, amazing instrument
I think this video is one of your best ever, and I've been here for a very long time. Really interesting stuff.
Fantastic to see how music brings people of different cultures together. If just the world could be more like this. Understanding, curiosity and compassion!
I'm always attracted to the middle eastern sound in modern rock & metal music. It gives a unique, mystical vibe
What an amazing post! Thanks Paul. 🤗
That was great, I liked it!
I learned something new today!
Thanks for sharing!