Bassem Samaan, Playing Taqsim on Electric Oud

تقاسيم بيات From Wikipedia:“Taqsīm (Arabic: تقسيم, Turkish: taksim, Greek: ταξίμι taksimi) is the name of a melodic improvisation style that could be metric or non-metric, which usually precedes a composition in Arabic, Turkish, Greek, and other Middle Eastern music. The taqsim is usually performed by a solo instrument, yet sometimes the soloist can be backed by a percussionist or an instrumentalist playing a drone on the tonic of the maqam. In vocal music, a similar style is called layali. It is wide