Ismail Londt – Amending Endings Maqmt Basics

Bismillah, assalamu, Alaikum.

After learning and familiarizing your ear with the basic structure

of any maqam, the encouragement is then to practice to the level

where you are able to express yourself within the Maqam and not

to be stuck on the initial structure and sound, more than

that, expressing yourself based on what you understand of the ayah

that you recite. So understanding the ayah is extremely important.

That's ultimately why we are reciting and while we are

attempting to beautify our rendition, to attract the listener

to the meaning of what is being recited. Anyway, if we are not at

the level of expression within the Maqam yet, because we lack

understanding, or we lack courage to go beyond what if what we've

initially lint of the structure. Then there is something else that

we can start with to

encourage creativity and to ignite creativity within our minds and

our ears, and that is to amend the endings you you memorize and you

practice and you're perfect the way certain reciters in a

particular ayah end a particular sound. So what you do is you

slightly amend it to make it your own. And Quran been doing this if

we take one turn that we managed to do in this in the series of

bayati now in the jawab Asli, with the push you end, for example,

if we take a simple ending,

Maliki Omid, Deen, for example,

Maliki umidin, that's

the comment sound at the end, you take a simple change, a simple

amendment by Doctor Naina, where the last set of jumps you wouldn't

do it as fast as Sheik Mustafa Marin would have done it, or as

fast as Sheik Abdul Basit would have done it. He does them slowly

and clearly. Maliki, he

clears them and makes them slower, and then you find shehrab, Mustafa

rawash, it would not go as low in this end as others. It would

merely drop two or three steps and then have his jumps. Maliki, to

them, and you hear they are different. And then you obviously

have the Shahad family, the father and the two sons, they have the

same start to that end, and they drop as others would drop, but

they end it with a higher push and turn my link in so there's room

for more to

explore. The idea is to make the sound your own and to come out of

the realm or the framework of imitation, and this is one way

through which you can slowly and subtly make the sound your own,

even if it is merely by amending the endings. There are more

examples of these, and I may share more down the line Inshallah, but

that's merely a seed that I wish to plant in your mind and on your

ear and encourage exploration and creativity inshaAllah, all of the

best May Allah guide. All Salawat, Allah, a.