 Veysel used to listen to them carefully.Veysel devoted himself wholeheartedly to playing bağlama and singing.He was first instructed by his father's friend, Çamışıhlı Ali Aga (Âşık Alâ), who taught him about the works of Pir Sultan Abdal, Karacaoğlan, Dertli, Rühsati and other great alevi poets and ashiks of Anatolia.