Need help on quarter tones of a turkish music

ismaximum · Post by **ismaximum** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 9:06 am

Hi
I hope a turkish friend here help me.

I really love this song (Zuhtu by Yurtseven below link to youtube)… I’ve set quarter tone for E and B both set to -50 but still I can hear something is missing here, especially notes A and B can be heard completely different than the song… I’m not sure what’s wrong here… is it the instrument effect in the music that makes the difference? I don’t know … I tried to play around with quarter tones but no luck… I am using Elektro Saz …

can someone please help me on tuning my keyboard for this song? This is really frustrating when I want to play a song but it’s not the same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tugwcjef5-E

Any help is really appreciated

BR · Post by BR » Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:32 am

Hi ismaximum,
I listened to the song by the link you provided and tried on my keyboard.
The song is in F#m scale. You need to put the quarter note on G# and it works. Don't forget the root note (Tonic) is F#.
I hope this helps, by the way I am not Turk musician...

ismaximum · Post by **ismaximum** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 10:12 am

BR wrote:Hi ismaximum,
I listened to the song by the link you provided and tried on my keyboard.
The song is in F#m scale. You need to put the quarter note on G# and it works. Don't forget the root note (Tonic) is F#.
I hope this helps, by the way I am not Turk musician...

Thanks BR... it's the same I alredy set but I started with D. I came to believe that the instrument itself has perhaps an effect that makes it different from what I play. If you listen to the song carefully (the fist section which plays with Electric Baglama) you'll notice part of the song is completely different than what you play on keyboard (maybe in fact slightly different but to me it's the most important thing that makes the song different to me)

Looks like the intrument has a wah effect or maybe a very small pitch on specific notes ... having said that, I couldn't figure out how by playing with effects and pitch... or maybe as I said, the instrument tuned in classic Turkish makam... don't know!