The Doubling Up Technique

This is one of the most easy ways to take a simple melody and make it more interesting. I call it the doubling up technique. Learn how to do it below: The Doubling Up Technique Difficulty: Easy What? The doubling up technique is taking a melody and adding more notes. On musical notation it looks like this: You’re basically adding another note for every 8th note you see turning them…

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The Best 50 Middle Eastern Songs You Have to Hear!

Here is a brief education in Middle Eastern music listening. If you want to become more familiar with Arabic music and don’t know where to begin, I have 50 suggestions for you. This is just a mere, humble list, and really does not do justice to the rich musical traditions of each area I mention, but it is a strong start. I made three categories: Arabic, Turkish, Persian. The list…

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