Scale Practice
Notes from one of my earliest oud lessons, in Cabdinaasir’s handwriting, showing the Somali names for different notes (from Italian) and how these map onto the oud (when the lowest string is tuned to a G; this string may also be tuned to an E). As a point of comparison, the middle diagram shows standard guitar tuning. The lower diagram shows the fingering for a C major (“do maggiore”) scale.
In my earliest lessons we started by learning a series of major and minor pentatonic scales. These are generally practiced as ascending and descending arpeggios, as can be heard in the recordings