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Maya Youssef Music
United Kingdom
Registrace 12. 03. 2009
Welcome to my channel! I am the the world leading qanun & Maqam Mentor. I help Arabic music enthusiasts learn QANUN MAQAM and TAQSIM in as little as a few months without any music knowledge.
I am excited to share many qanun maqam taqasim and qanun tips here so you too can collapse the timeline it takes by traditional methods. Inside this channel, you will also find my compositions and performances from some of my favourite concerts from my 30 + career as a professional performer.
Visit www.maqamlego.com/ for resources for all instruments to help you take your maqam and taqsim journey to the next level.
For qanun resources, go to and www.qanunmastery.com/
In my videos you will find:
-Quick ways to learn maqam and identify maqam by ear
-Strategies to enhance your qanun technique
-Essential techniques for playing an authentic taqsim
-Tips on achieving authenticity in Arabic music
-Footage from my concerts to inspire and uplift you
Thank you so much for being here! Maya
I am excited to share many qanun maqam taqasim and qanun tips here so you too can collapse the timeline it takes by traditional methods. Inside this channel, you will also find my compositions and performances from some of my favourite concerts from my 30 + career as a professional performer.
Visit www.maqamlego.com/ for resources for all instruments to help you take your maqam and taqsim journey to the next level.
For qanun resources, go to and www.qanunmastery.com/
In my videos you will find:
-Quick ways to learn maqam and identify maqam by ear
-Strategies to enhance your qanun technique
-Essential techniques for playing an authentic taqsim
-Tips on achieving authenticity in Arabic music
-Footage from my concerts to inspire and uplift you
Thank you so much for being here! Maya
The heart of Arabic maqam
Download my free maqam guide here: www.maqamlego.com/guide
Join me free facebook community dedicated to qanun, maqam and taqsim here: groups/506801619908739
Want me to personally help you with maqam and taqsim? check out my digital courses and how to work with me here www.mayayoussef.com/taqsim
Join me free facebook community dedicated to qanun, maqam and taqsim here: groups/506801619908739
Want me to personally help you with maqam and taqsim? check out my digital courses and how to work with me here www.mayayoussef.com/taqsim
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Dominika Taqasim Mastery Testimonial
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Gorgeous Taqsim From My Student Ibada
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The Hidden Psychology of Maqam
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magine understanding maqam as intimately as you know a close friend. That's the key to mastering taqsim with crystal clarity. How would you like my personal guidance on YOUR taqsim, helping you learn from scratch (no prior music knowledge needed) or elevate your skills to the next level? This is what Taqasim Mastery is all about! Here is how it works: 🔥 LIVE Mentorship Calls - MY eyes/ears on Y...
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A Huge Testimony From Umm Kulthum's Wanted Qanunist
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When the legendary Umm Kulthum chooses your mentor as her qanun player and he praises you on national TV, you know it's a huge honor. Thank you, Ustaz Salim Sarwe ! 🌟 Ready to learn taqsim from scratch or take your taqsim to the next level?🤩 Join my FREE live 5 day taqsim challenge 🔥 🎁Win Maqam and Taqsim boosting Prizes! 🪷Have the opportunity to access my feedback and get your burning Qs answe...
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How my student went from a complete newbie to playing complex pieces in a few months. Want to learn qanun from scratch or take your playing to the next level? Apply to work with me here: aiqg9lk3vbi.typeform.com/qanunmastery
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The most anticipated part of your Taqsim
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Learning the qafla Qaftla is only one TINY detail in my revolutionary popular framework Taqasim Mastery : www.taqasimmastery.com/apply This is my 6 months program designed to teach you everything about maqam and taqsim so you can deepen your understanding of the music, recognise maqam by ear in seconds and play an authentic taqsim.. in just as little as few months. Price is going up in 6 days a...
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Watch me build the most famous maqam in Arabic music with Lego
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Student Spotlight: Lene Dalen plays a beautiful taqsim Nahawad
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Maqam modulation is easy when you know this
Think that Maqam is a scale? Think again!
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Think that Maqam is a scale? Think again!
Is Maqam similar to Western Music Modes?
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Student Highlight: Sara Abanamy performs Zikrayati al Qasabji and taqasim
Can i wind my turkish qanun from Re ? The first note?
I am a biginer i have a turkish 4 chamber 27 notes kanun.so should i wind my first note as RE.. or its wrong? Some body say should start first note by La..pls guide me.thanks
I understand Maqam is very close to Indian ragas
so lets say we started on Bayati Re , and you then modulate into Nahawand sol, how do we confirm that we actually have moved to Nahawand sol when the bayat itself is made up of Jins Bayati Re and Jins Nahawand sol , cant we still imagine we still in bayati at the very beginning of the song as you demonstrated rather than saying we started on Bayati moved to Nahawand then Bayati again , because when i tried to modulate into Nahawand Do , or La , it was not making sense , since from previous knowledge acquired i can only modulate from a maqam when i get to it fourth degree , and for our case Bayati re its forth degree is Sol , correct me if i am wrong - we all learning
hey @osamaathman29 thanks for your question. In terms of your first question: if it is bayati re (d) How can we confirm that we moved to Nahawand sol (G) ; the answer is a change in interval. to be literal the note si (b) becomes bemol (flat) instead of si half bemol (b half flat) which is rast. the WHOLE chain is maqam bayati. HOWEVER, Arabic music 99% of the time is a shift in specific building blocks vs a shift in the ENTIRE maqam (which is a widespread misconception) . Lastly the most important thing is to know that you can start a maqam from ANY note (la si or literarly anything ) but what will not change is the intervals. I suspect that is what is confusing you ..hope that makes sense and is helpeful ?
@@MayaYoussefMusic you are absolutely right, but From some previous teacher, I was taught there are originally 2 forms of Bayati Re , one is playing jins Bayati followed by Rast and the other was playing Jins Bayati then followed by jins Nahawand , sourced from Maqam world website by Sami Abu Shumays and he personally shared his own insights with me that you can play a taqsim by either playing Bayati-Rast or Bayati-Nahawand or mix them all at once in a taqsim
@@MayaYoussefMusic I appreciate your feedback and congrats
@@osamaathman229 hi osama , we are in agreement:) you mentioned Nahawand do and La in your earlier comment which got me confused. If you look at this video I have used both Nahawand and Rast in the branch as both are part of Bayati's core structure. In taqsim you always use ALL of the building blocks in maqam core structure. hope thats clear now :)
@@osamaathman229 you are welcome and thank you :)
is it possible for you to find a partner well versed on the Arabic violin method and they teach taqsim , and maqamat the same as you
In terms of finding someone who teaches the same as me, I am not sure any one teaches maqam and taqsim the way I do. Please bare in mind I have been developing the Taqasim Mastery Method over the past 5 years. While some aspects of it are not new, the biggest bulk of it is developed by me so you literarly can't find it anywhere else. The beauty of this method is that it speaks to the fundamentals of taqsim for ALL instruments. If you would like to work with me, I would love to help:) please submit an application to explore how I can help you here www.taqasimmastery.com/program . I look forward to hearing from you :)
ععلىى اييي ممقام
ضكراً كثيراً بصراحة قناة متميزة في شرح اسرار القانون والمقامات
Superb and inviting performance, the artistry appreciated
As an Australian born Greek, I love this music, and it resonates deep inside. My darling father Panos would often play these chords on his bouzouki and oud, I wish I had learned to play, now sadly he's no longer with us. I love how our two cultures are like the dearest, closest cousins. Music, love, and peace... from Australia, Sophia. ❤
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Sometimes Maqam is similar to Greek music modes only.
More than modes, also some adjinaz
I am Egyptian...I went to Greece once, I thought I was in Egypt with a different language 😂
Nice
glad it was helpful !
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Amazingly beautiful
🙏🏼💚 very proud of Lene
1:39 „i‘m a jazz guy, let me do it“ - me (probably; right now). I actually kind of like the jarring sounds of microtonal chords, but I generally like dissonance.
Some qanoun are made from synthetic skin. Are those any good for sound?
Is there a specific type of fish skin to use? I heard that fish skin is prone to ripping, and will make the strings lose their tuning more often. But what type of fish skin to use? 🐟🐠
This is an Armenian instrument. I hope you tell people what you’re playing
You definitely deserve more recognition
Thank you, for the beauty and intensity of your playing. Does indeed convey love and prayer. All good things, Cynthia, Adelaide, Sth Australia
Thank you so much 🙏🏼🤍
Wow, that is some amazing recognition by a qanunist who is known all over the Arab world. Indeed, Maya - you are a complete master and a huge inspiration to all of us learners along the Qanun path!
Thank you so much 🙏🏼🤍
شكراً
not a note played in the testimonial?😢
❤🎵🎶🎵🎶💕
😍😍😍😍😍😍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Impressive
For the nerdy, enter the scale in Scala (like "equal 24"), then Analyse menu->Show chord presence... (or chords/match/constrained on the command line).
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I don't play an authentic Arabic instrument but guitar and ukulele with additional frets. Especially for Ukulele with it's high register I found some interesting ways to harmonise arabic folk melodies with chords that contain quarternotes. In one case I had a melody in D with accidentals Ed (half flat) and Bb (flat). I chose to change between Dm and the neutral C chord, later on I also play the descending line Gm, F, Cneutral, Dm. The accompaniment included a single higher note plucked with the thumb followed by a trichord around that note (due to the weird tuning of Ukulele). So Dm was realized by first plucking a high D and then A-D-F#, here D was played on two strings of the Ukulele and thus repeated. And for the Cneutral I played Ed (half flat) followed by G-C-G, avoiding to play all at the same time. The Ukulele has a very limited sustain compared to kanun, so even letting ring might not really count as playing together.
In an other Song that started on the quaternote Ad (half flat), I identified it as a neutral 7 of a Bb major chord, playing Bb-F-Ad actually worked really nicely even with strumming, and then its relief in a major Eb Chord. Using non arabic instruments, of course, already removes me from the track of authenticity and thus gives new freedom of interpreting the material.
Thanks for sharing your experience. You were harmonising with maqam Kurd by the sound of it so it’s far easier to add chords since it’s a quarter tone free maqam. Chords get muddy wren you try to add them to microtonal maqamat and when you over use them otherwise 😊
@@MayaYoussefMusic Well no, I do indeed use quarter notes: Ed is "E half flat" of Maqaam Bayati (in the key of D), this goes for the first song. And Ad is A half flat and the starting note of a song only using the notes F G Ad Bb, which should be Jins Upper Rast but weirdly starting and ending in Ad. For the accompaniment I only used Eb major and Bb major, but in the part starting on the note Ad, I played the power chord plus neutral seven: Bb-Ed-Ad. This is not that dissonant as it can be identified as 6:9:11 in terms of frequency ratios. I like the sound. A minor chord with frequency ratios 10:12:15 is not much more consonant except for the pairwise frequency ratios. Even a chord with neutral third can work in context, yet it will be muddy on a lower pitched instrument, but on Ukulele it is totally fine. I still agree: One should not add too many notes. On microtonal Ukulele I very often resolve to power chords.
grate video. my problem on ears is not how to go to next maqam but how to return to previus does a formula exists on this?
sweetly played
lovely
🙏🏼😊thank you will pass this on to Ibada
very Good!
glad its helpful:)
❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
As an oud player, I was hooked watching this live! Your style in the video is just awesome. Keep going! 😂
thanks so much! i would love to have you inside my fb community which is dedicated to learn maqam and taqsim... we have loads of oud players inside:) here is the link facebook.com/groups/506801619908739
Weirdly, I have been wondering that. Or, at least, I've been struggling to add chords to a melody using an unconventional (to Western music) scale.
Thank you Maya❤
What a beautiful piece 🫶
QUANUN Is an ARMENIAN Music instrument, not GOD DAMN Turkish... trkish are stolen from ARMENIAN, Turkish stolen Armenian CULTURE, turkish coffee is also was ARMENIAN COFEE. GOD DAMN TURKISH.
damn yeah that is a question i wonder about
Beautiful 🙏
🙏🏼😊
super
super
Thank you🙏🏼
super
🙏🏼😊
So very beautiful 💜
🙏🏼❤️
I would stand on so many random things when I played kanun
Indeed 😄
Bravo
Bravísima Lene ❤