MIDDLE EASTERN RHYTHMS | Malfuf 2/4 🎶Listen, Dance & Play + 30min

GET DARBUKA LESSONS 🌐 30 min Malfuf Rhythm! Recorded by Omar Kattan with the porpose of help musicians and dancers to introduce them to the Middle Eastern Rhythms, playing typical instruments like Darbuka, Dohola (Bass Darbuka), Riqq and Daf. More rhythms? ⬇️ Oriental Rhythms I Album here ⬇️ Malfuf (also spelled Malfouf) is primarily used in folk and popular Arabic music. The word malfuf in Arabic literally means “wrapped” or “spun around” (Malfuf’s feel is short and cyclical). For this reason, some regions call it Laff (wrapping/going around an object in circular fashion). Typical modulations from Malfuf are with Karachi and Ayyub. Malfuf also often modulates back and forth with Maqsum (by replacing one Maqsum measure with two Malfuf measures, and vice versa). (Text From the Book INSIDE ARABIC MUSIC - Arabic Maqam Performance and theory In the 20th Century - b