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Arabic Rock

by Hisham Al-Sanea

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  • Hello GMC. Our lesson today is "Arabic Rock". As a middle eastern I want to demonstrate a little about our music genres. We have many kinds and styles like Arabic pop, franco Arabic, Arabic R&B, Reggae, Hip Hop, Arabic electronica, Arabic classic, Arabic jazz and Arabic rock genres.

    Today I am focusing on Arabic rock genre. Our music is rich in scales and maqams in the same time we mix the scales in one compose. Usually in Arabic songs we use 1 or 2 to 3 and even 4 (maqams - scales) in one song.

    In today's lesson I used E.Ajosha/E.harmonic minor as a basic scales in this lesson. If you remember my first lesson at GMC it was in E ajosha scale also.

    We will see syncopation, upstrokes, down strokes, ascending, descending, grooves, picking and arpeggios in this lesson. You will also feel some Arabic percussions added as (darabuka, katem, dahol, saggat, rek and clap).

    Rhythm working in : 4/4 (wehde - measures in whole) and (maqsum - oriental arabic rhythm)
    Technical effects : vibes, harmonic notes, palm mute, tremolo bar, bends, pinches, slides, legato slides
    GP5 midi file : completed tracks as clip
    Backing tracks :50bpm,75bpm,90bpm,115bpm.
    Backing loop : 115bpm
    Gear : fender stratocaster, demarzio pickups , lag preamp tube spitfire TL1

    Hisham Al-sanea

    E.Ajosha-E.harmonic minor 2.bmp
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