HOW TO COMPOSE QAWWALI AND SUFI MUSIC?
If you do not already read music, you’ll need to take a class in order to compose a song (unless you want to do the lyrics and someone else write the music). Once you learn to read, get a songwriting book and write your Qawwali! 😀 For a true Qawwali song, I’m guessing you have to follow the below doctrines. If you haven’t already, study the doctrines of Sufism so that your compositions are true to the religion: http://www.dlshq.org/religions/sufism.ht… Here gives the order of how Qawwali should be constructed: Songs are usually between 15 to 30 minutes long. However, the longest commercially released qawwali runs slightly over 115 minutes (Hashr Ke Roz Yeh Poochhunga by Aziz Mian Qawwal). The qawwali maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has at least two songs that are more than 60 minutes long. Qawwalis tend to begin gently and build steadily to a very high energy level in order to induce hypnotic states both a
