Abstract:
Abstract:It is known that there are various problems teaching the bağlama which is one of the most important instrument in traditional Turkish folk music. These problems are generally play, position, plectrum stroke direction and nonstandard teaching the bağlama in terminology. There is an attempt to maintain standard teaching the bağlama in conservatory and the deparment of music systematically as well as picking up solutions of the problems and it is argued that there is a necessity of a standard teaching how to play the folk instrument, the bağlama in surveys about that topic. In that survey it was searched the history and teaching of the bağlama and different play techniques from region to region. It was considered the regional bağlama playing styles, Zeybek, Ankara, Konya, Yozgat, Teke, Karşılama and Aşıklama in terms of plectrum stroke direction and given an example of position and disposition notes that were played folk tune with these playing styles. The results were attained that there is a particular play standard in plectrum stroke direction of the regional bağlama playing styles and because of these features of the regional bağlama playing styles they have the qualities that can be solved a part of standardization problems of teaching the bağlama.
