.In connection with shamanism, which emerged since ancient times, there are links with the veneration of ancestral spirits, worship of Tengri, prediction of the future, healing of diseases with the help of jinns, and others.

In the Kazakh common understanding of shamanism, a shaman is a person who predicts the future of a person in a person's daily life (good or evil). The reason why shamans have such power is that people can speak directly to god.

Since time immemorial, nomadic Kazakhs, when faced with some difficulties, turned to a shaman for help, thus asking God for good and protection.

These are: musical-melodic and speech structure, limited range of no more than an octave, mixed metric size and melodic basis close to diatonic and chromatic structure. Due to the gradual elimination of the practice of ritual songs, it has become a rare phenomenon and is now included in the category of endangered customs. .