Longa Riyad - Classical Arab piece - gypsy style UPX

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#1

Hi all,

Just wanted to share something I’ve been working on.
It’s a piece called Longa Riyad, I arranged it for UPX. I’m playing it using forearm rotation, gypsy style.

Here it is at 150 bpm, not a finished video, just recorded practicing, camera angle is horrible, but figured I might as well post it as I don’t seem to get to doing a decent recording of it.

Hopefully I’ll manage to film better version soon.

Lemme know what you think, it’s a really fun piece to work on UPX!

Cheers, Elan

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#2

That’s super cool, nice playing.

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#3

I concur with that other guy, this song is awesome imma have to learn it now. Looks fun to play too. Heh for some reason all the Winnipeggers love this :smiley:

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#4

Thanks so much guys.

It real is super fun to play.
Here’s a basic sheet music video for it that I found.

If anyone wants to learn it I’d be glad to post a quick tutorial of my adaption to UPX.

Hopefully I’ll post a better take soon (maybe even faster haha, who knows…).

Cheers and stay safe (-:

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#5

Nice work! Where did you figure out the position shift trick at :55? Tip, you can use the same idea against the pentatonic box and diminished arpeggios by using three-note fingerings per string. All kinds of cool patterns become available that way, including sequences of triplet threes which would require back and forth string switching otherwise.

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#6

Yes please, would be perfect for the “show and tell” category. I’d probably give it a shot :slight_smile:

#7

Hey,
so I made a sheet music+TAB for the arrangement:

And a video tutorial:

I’ll try to get around to making a clearer video soon.

Hope you enjoy!
Elan

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#8

Hey Troy,
Thanks!

for the position shift I guess I was inspired by you, haha. Comes quite naturally after all the Yngwey material of yours.

Regarding your tip on diminished lines, I don’t quite understand - how could I do 3 notes per string with these? Wouldn’t that be an impossible stretch? (4 frets between each note for diminished…). Will definitely check out the pentatonic idea, thanks!

#9

Ellman, thanks for putting this together. It’s right at the appropriate skill level for me where I’ll be able to get through it with a bit of practice. The tutorial is really helpful as well. Thanks again!

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