Music Basics
What Is a Makam? How Turkish Makam Differs from a Scale
What sets a makam apart from a scale: melodic path, resting note and dominant, the 53-comma octave, rough Western equivalents and bağlama meets guitar.
From repertoire to setlist, rehearsal flow to showtime — practical notes for bands and news from BandUp.
What sets a makam apart from a scale: melodic path, resting note and dominant, the 53-comma octave, rough Western equivalents and bağlama meets guitar.
Keyboards that look identical in a shop are built for very different jobs. Here is what to look for whether you are learning piano at home or joining a band.
From finger-tightening and the star pattern to seating new heads, snare wires and spacing your toms, drum tuning step by step.
What the low B really gets you, why the neck and scale length change, how to mute the extra string and whether your songs need a 5-string at all.
How jazz began, swing and improvisation, what a standard is, how each era sounds, four albums to start with and jazz in Turkey.
From whole and half steps to the major and minor formulas, harmonic minor and why "what key are we in?" matters at rehearsal.
Same version, same key, same structure. The decisions to make before rehearsal, how to practise at home and the order to work in when you first play it together.
The One, sixteenth-note feel, the one-chord vamp and space. Where funk came from, the bands that shaped it and what each player does in a funk band.
Size, weight, air, reeds and style: the differences between alto and tenor sax for beginners, and what Eb and Bb tuning means when you play in a band.