Tuning If you look you will find many essays on tuning the saz most of them in Turkish. There are several ways to make the right notes, and since the courses tend to have octave pairs in them it doesn't matter as much which octave the note comes from, the chord usually sounds "pretty right" wherever you choose to find the note. Use your thumb 0 on the X course for that C note. This is marked with "4th" and will be important later on, so be sure to find this spot. Traditionally they can be moved around to get the micro-tonal variations that are found in Turkish art and folk music. I'll try to fix my web server so that stops happening
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Jas's-- Beginning Saz Stuff
You could, of course, continue down the neck up the scale in this way. The frets on a saz are tied with string usually a monofiliment material like "fishing line". If going all the way up the neck seems like a lot of work then realize there is a Bb and a C within easy reach.
GDA tuning tuning in 5ths So alkord tuning by making string 1 be a comfortable low G.
There are, of course, a bunch of shortcuts that use open strings that depend on your tonic It contains 12 sas per octave. These would be the "white keys" on a piano. This sounds nice when you are rhythmically strumming the open strings, but for reasons we will discover later on, it is a little less versatile.
So, you are trying to play the Bağlama Saz...
Therefore, usually when someone mentions where they are tuned by saying one note e. This usually makes sort of a very simple harmonic chord. Aklord is that you may ask? Tuning If you look you will find many essays on tuning the saz most of them in Turkish.
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Actually - you probably want to read a bit further aklord for the note about bridge placement before you actually tune your instrument Here is a side-view diagram of the knot to tie on the lower nut: Tune string 2 an octave higher on G.
For a short-neck you probably want it to be an octave plus one full step 14 chromatic intervals. The open notes on the other string courses add rhythm.
I suspect the relatively large fret sza is one reason that the 4 finger is rarely used. You broke a string A "fifth" in this case is 5 "white akiord apart on a piano; or up 7 of the 12 steps in a chromatic scale.
On this sort of instrument strings arranged in courses are played together - that is all of the strings are struck at once and give a louder sound than a single string would. Remember though, that the absolute pitch of the first note doesn't really matter that much.
Here are a few web links to some more information: If you have a short-neck saz, then think of it as just a shortened version of the long-neck variety. Plectrum Now wkkord you figured out how to play scale, stop it! Though this can vary by manufacturer, here are some numbers from one source: Also we are starting to see them made with mechanical pegs, like a modern guitar.
If you are playing with others you will need to find a good place to tune that make the songs you play wind up in a comfortable place to play ssz the instrument.
And then the fat string 5 of the Z-course to the A just above the G of the 1 string.
However lets establish a "concert tuning" so that we can talk about actual notes. Because of the weight of strings used and the size of the instruments there is a bit of a standard. If you have comments or corrections please let me know: Another site with some good beginning info and great diagrams. Look at my playing position picture for an idea of the hand position just scoot my index finger over to the middle-course,same-fret to get a minor chord -- and you could switch to the 3rd finger instead of 2nd: There are several ways to make the right notes, and zkkord the courses tend to have octave pairs in them it doesn't matter as much which octave the note comes from, the chord usually sounds "pretty right" wherever you choose to find the note.
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