Altarab: Oud, Karaoke & Scores

Altarab: Oud, Karaoke & Scores. A virtual oud player plays your favourite Arabic songs. Choose "Sing along (Karaoke)" and the lyrics follow the music, or "Learn to play" and follow the live scoresheet with real quarter tones and the fingering on the oud. Move any song to your own voice (Rast on Fa, Nahawand on La…), one octave up or down, and add qanun, ney and darbuka to build your own takht. 73 maqamat, 8 instruments and more than 70 rhythms.

ARABIC MAQAMAT
Learn the maqamat, their ajnas, their intervals and how to move between them. Listen to each maqam and try it on a virtual keyboard.

OUD SIMULATOR AND INSTRUMENTS
Practise on a virtual oud and explore the note positions and quarter tones. Try the sounds of the qanun, ney, kaman, piano, buzuq, santur and guitar.

PLAY WITH SHEET MUSIC
Follow the score with the finger positions on the oud, and browse the song library by artist, maqam or genre.

ARABIC RHYTHMS (IQA'AT)
Listen to the rhythms and practise them with interactive rhythm tools and sounds such as the darbuka, riq and daf.

OUD TUNER AND INSTRUMENT TUNER
An accurate chromatic tuner that listens through your microphone: tune your oud, guitar, violin, qanun and any instrument, with quarter-tone support and an adjustable metronome.

ORIENTAL KEYBOARD AND PIANO
Play the maqamat on an oriental keyboard (Arabic organ) and a piano with quarter tones, and hear every maqam before you play it.

LISTENING AND PRACTICE TOOLS
Use the microphone to track your pitch and help recognise the maqam, and record your playing to get feedback.

Interface in Arabic and English. Practise at your own pace.

Recent changes:
- Opens on the home screen with every tool, course, karaoke and score.
- Works offline after you sign in: tools, sounds and your downloaded scores.
- Subscribers get 5 scores downloaded for offline playing.
- Sign-up and sign-in stay inside the app.
- Taqasim with real qaflat, played the way the masters do.