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Setar Lessons
Search our extensive database to find teachers who offer setar lessons for your chosen instrument. All you need to do is enter your address and choose an instrument from the drop down menu. You will then be confronted with a list of teachers for your chosen instrument. Simply click on the teachers profile to be presented with more information on that particular teacher.
All Styles Taught
We have hundreds of teachers at musiceteacher.com all offering different instruments, styles and types of tuition. There are a wide range of genres available to all learners including rock, jazz, world music, classical, country and many more. Have a read through a teacher’s profile to find out more about what they offer.
Our Setar teachers can help you learn a variety of styles as well as help you towards exams, performing, reading music and much more. Many teachers offer tuition for beginners and advanced players, some offer setar lessons for young learners and adults too. For more information, simply read through a teacher’s profile. All of our teachers are really driven to provide high quality lessons that you can feel comfortable and happy with.
Supercharge your setar skills
Every Setar lesson is built around the student and their needs as a learner. This then means that no two lessons are ever the same. For example a beginner and an advanced player won’t be learning the same material. For this reason, our teachers will use their experience to build a setar lesson plan which is moulded to your level of playing which means you can truly learn in a direction that you want to and that you feel comfortable with as a learner.
Learners from all playing backgrounds and playing levels are welcome. Beginners are more than welcome to take lessons as well as more advanced setar players. If you are learning difficult pieces or just learning the basics, all of our teachers will welcome you. For more information about what levels are offered from a certain teacher, Just check out their profile.
If you have never tried the setar before you’re still welcome. If you have something specific you want to work on then please let our teachers know. If you want to learn setar to accompany another instrument like sitar for example, please let your teacher know and they will help you work on this.
We also have several teachers who have experience in both composing music and performing live so If you want to work on building confidence, writing your own music or performing in future our teachers will be more than happy to help you work towards any goals that you might have, whether they are long term of short term it will definitely be possible.
Learning the Setar is definitely not easy, and all of our teachers understand this as we were all there once as well at some point. Our teachers will approach your goals with a clear patient plan. But, always remember that learning an instrument like the setar can be done by anyone but it will take a lot of practice and dedication. This means practising outside of lesson hours as well.
Are you a Setar teacher?
If you’re a Setar teacher and you’re looking for new students please get in touch with us. We always have loads of new students signing up to the website on a daily basis and we need a solid stream of teachers to offer them lessons at any given time. If you would like to take on more students then please fill out the teacher application form.
Setar teachers in our community have a wide range of teaching styles and lesson styles. Some teach online while others teach face to face. Everyone seems to have their own speciality when it comes to genres and we welcome them all. We are looking for teachers who have their own way of teaching and their own teaching preferences. If you need a couple new students or want to fill your teaching schedule, please contact us as we are sure we can help you achieve your teaching goals.. If you’d like to move forward please fill in out Teacher Application Form.
What is a Setar?
The Setar is sometimes confused with sitar and, although both instruments are similar, they both have completely different origins with the Setar being of persian origins.
It has a pear shaped body. Although the word “setar” means three strings in persian, a modern setar has four strings. First setars had three strings but 150 years ago a fourth one was added by a famous setar master Moshtagh Ali Shah. The fourth string gave Persian Setar a better sound and players a possibility of more complex tuning alternatives.
You could compare the Setar to a lute, it’s also played with a pick so if you’re a guitar player you should definitely give it a try. Setar is body consists of two parts; a soundbox and a long neck. The box is usually made of walnut or mulberry while the neck is made of walnut wood. Setar is like a western mandolin but with a longer neck. This instrument originally had three strings. However it has changed through time, now it has four strings and its frets vary between 22 to 28. All of them are made of gut. The soundbox has a strong resonance which produces the harmony of the notes. The harmony of the sound that master players are able to achieve is the key aspect of this instrument. These 4 pegs help to tune your setar tune.
The setar is still popular to this day and can be found in countries such as Iran, this is due to its persian background.
There can also be variations of this instrument found all over the world like the Setor in Tajikistan, Satar in China and the Sitar in India.
The strings are tuned in multiple ways, to match a music’s tonality or a singer’s voice. A basic example showing one of the tuning patterns, listed in scientific pitch notation, top to bottom: C3, C4, G3 & C4. The lowest pitch strings played together as a course (C3 C4 are the bass string (made of bronze or phosphor-bronze) and the drone (made of steel). The highest pitch strings are the “yellow” G3, made of bronze or phosphor-bronze and the “white” G3 made of steel.
Although it is considered a very difficult instrument to master it is achievable with the right amount of time and dedication. It will take a lot of practice though.
If you can commit to a weekly lesson and try to practice 30 minutes a day then I truly believe that anyone can make progress when it comes to learning the Setar. It’s always good to have some songs in mind that you’d like to learn in advance for your teacher and then the lessons are even more tailored to your specifications. Theory and reading music can also be a stumbling block but our teachers will always make sure theory is presented in a way that is easy to understand and that you can enjoy learning theory in small chunks rather than everything all in one go.
It’s never too early or late to start learning and our teachers will always make a lesson plan that suits your learning level and age as well. If you ever have any questions then please just make sure to ask your teacher. Some teachers also provide an instrument for you to try as well so you can try it out before you invest in your own instrument.