Turkish Music Rhythms

An usûls is a rhythmic pattern consisting of specific time intervals and accents. Turkish music boasts a rich assortment of usûls, totaling a number several times greater than that of similar elements western music.

In our application 75 different usuls together with their velvele (velvele of an usul is formed by increasing the number of beats of each main beat without changing the meter of the usul) forms are available for two different measure units (1/8 & 1/4).


Turkish Music Usûls (Rhythmic Pattern)

Minors Usûls
Nîm (Half) Sofyan ( 2 beats )
Semâî ( 3 beats )
Sofyan ( 4 beats )
Türk Aksağı ( 5 beats )
Zafer ( 5 beats )
Yürük Semâî ( 6 beats )
Darb ( 6 beats )
Sengîn Semâî ( 6 beats )
Mürekkeb Nîm (Half) Sofyan ( 6 beats )
Devr-i Hindi ( 7 beats )
Devr-i Turan ( 7 beats )
Düyek ( 8 beats )
Ağır Düyek ( 8 beats )
Müsemmen ( 8 beats )
Darb-ı Bulgar ( 8 beats )
Aksak ( 9 beats )
Ağır Aksak ( 9 beats )
Çifte Sofyan ( 9 beats )
Evfer ( 9 beats )
Aydın ( 9 beats )
Raks Aksağı ( 9 beats )
Oynak ( 9 beats )
Mürekkeb Semâî ( 9 beats )
Curcuna ( 10 beats )
Aksak Semai ( 10 beats )
Ağır Aksak Semâî ( 10 beats )
Aksak Semâî Evferi ( 10 beats )
Lenk (Nîm) Fahte ( 10 beats )
Ceng-i Harbî ( 10 beats )
Tek Vuruş ( 11 beats )
Frenkçîn ( 12 beats )
Nîm (Half) Çenber ( 12 beats )
İkiz Aksak ( 12 beats )
Mazmûri ( 12 beats )
Nîm (Half) Evsat ( 13 beats )
Şarkı Devr-i Revânı ( 13 beats )
Bektaşî Devr-i Revânı ( 13 beats )
Âyîn (Mevlevi) Devr-i Revânı ( 14 beats )
Musabba ( 14 beats )
Devr-i Türkî ( 14 beats )
Raksân ( 15 beats )
Bektaşî Raksânı ( 15 beats )
Majors Usûls
Bektaşî Raksı ( 16 beats )
Çifte Düyek ( 16 beats )
Fer ( 16 beats )
Nîm (Half) Berefşan ( 16 beats )
Nîm (Half) Hafif ( 16 beats )
Turan Semâîsi ( 17 beats )
Darb-ı Türkî ( 18 beats )
Nîm (Half) Devir ( 18 beats )
Fahte ( 20 beats )
Durak Evferi ( 21 beats )
Hezeç ( 22 beats )
Şirin ( 22 beats )
Çenber ( 24 beats )
Nîm (Half) Sakîl ( 24 beats )
Evsat ( 26 beats )
Beste Devr-i Revanı ( 26 beats )
Şarkı DevriRevânı ( 26 beats )
Firengifer ( 28 beats )
Devr-i Kebîr ( 28 beats )
Muzaaf Devr-i Kebir
Remel ( 28 beats )
Devr-i Sagîr ( 30 beats )
Muhammes ( 32 beats )
Hafif ( 32 beats )
Berefşân ( 32 beats )
Darb-ı Hüner ( 38 beats )
Sakîl ( 48 beats )
Hâvî ( 64 beats )
Darb-ı (Zarb-ı) Fetih ( 88 beats )
Series Usûls
Nîm (Half) Zencîr ( 60 beats )
Murabba Zencîr ( 88 beats )
Zencîr ( 120 beats )
Cihâr (Çar) ( 124 beats )

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