I create three types of resources for musicians:
1. Balkan Music Theory Guides: rhythms, modes, chords, and harmonies. At the moment, these are on Patreon, but are being moved here, on the website.
Here's a list of published resources:
2. Balkan Music Exercises for guitar, bouzouki, bass and treble clef instruments (violin, accordion, piano, etc.), focusing on playing scales over uneven time signatures.
3. Tabs and standard notations for guitar, bouzouki, and treble clef instruments of my own and some Balkan folk tunes.
The notations and exercises are on Bandcamp. Below is a list of available tabs/notations:
Balkan Music Folk Style
- Chifte Chifte Pajtonlari | Macedonian traditional song, tamboura, 9/8 (2+2+2+3) time
- Zorba Trance | bouzouki duet instrumental, taverna style
- Thalassa | bouzouki duet instrumental, taverna style
- Nisiotiko | bouzouki duet instrumental, Greek islands style
- Jovo Vlavot | bouzouki instrumental Rebetiko style
- London's Rebetiko | baglamas instrumental, Rebetiko style
- Let's Move | bouzouki duet instrumental, taverna style
- Hasaposerviko D | Greek traditional, single bouzouki instrumental
- Mrs Mastoridis | baglamas instrumental, taverna style
Greek/Balkan Folk & Blues/Rock Fusion Style
- Polychrono Hasaposerviko | baglamas instrumental, blues and classical fusion
- The Rush: bouzouki duet instrumental, 9/8 (2+2+2+3) time
Balkanised Christmas
- The First Noel | Baglamas instrumental, also arranged for guitar, 9/4 Zembekiko Time Signature (2+2+2+3)
You can support my work at BuyMeACoffee.com.
If you're on YouTube, the following playlists may be of interest:
MUSIC THEORY, SONG INSPIRATIONS, ANALYSIS
- Balkan Music Theory Musings (short essays on various aspects on Balkan and European Music Theory and History)
- Song Structure Analysis (each song contains a structure analysis in the description)
- Song Inspirations (the story behind the song)