What makes Oud Warrior different from a general chord site?

Every page is written from the fingerboard outward: chords and scales are positioned course by course rather than shown as a single fixed grip, the ajnas are charted as real tetrachords with every position recomputed in CI, and the pages say plainly which maqamat a twelve-position board cannot represent at all.

What tuning does this site use?

C-F-A-D-G-C, the Arabic standard the registry models — six courses, fourths the whole way except one major third, with the outer two courses both sounding C two octaves apart.

Is the oud really fretless? How do you show positions, then?

Yes — this instrument has no frets at all. Every position on this site is a 12-TET reference point, computed from the tuning, meant as a place to aim rather than a slot the string falls into on its own.

Do I need to read music to use this site?

No. Everything here is charts, tab, and playback — course numbers, position numbers, and audio on every voicing and drill, so the ear can check a shape before the fingers commit.

Does any of this cost money?

No — every chart, jins table, drill, and tool on Oud Warrior is free, with no ads, no account, and no upsell waiting at the end.

The Oud, Positioned Honestly

Every page here speaks the fingerboard as a first language: where a tone falls under the hand, which jins its neighbours belong to, and where a twelve-position chart has to admit its own limits.

Oud Chords The Ajnas Scales Tuner

Free, playable references for the fretless oud — every voicing positioned across the six C-F-A-D-G-C courses, with the ajnas it belongs to alongside and every derived number recomputed in CI.

One Neck, Five Ajnas

One instrument covered deeply rather than four covered thinly: the six-course oud, plus the five ajnas a twelve-tone chart can honestly draw.

The Oud

Tuned C-F-A-D-G-C — fourths, but one major third
6 courses on a fretless neck
The lead voice of the taqsim

Jins Hijaz

Minor second, then an augmented second
The maqam family's signature sound
Fully 12-TET representable

Jins Kurd

Minor second, whole step, whole step
Shares its shape with a Phrygian tetrachord
The Western/maqam meeting point

Jins Nahawand

Whole step, half step, whole step
The natural-minor tetrachord
The most familiar-sounding of the three

What Lives Here

Chords

Every key and quality positioned course by course, positions and fingers named — plus a door into the maqam building blocks that surround them.

Scales

Position maps across six courses with every root marked, labelled honestly as a 12-TET reference rather than the microtonal reality.

Fingerboard Explorer

Light up any set of notes across all six C-F-A-D-G-C courses at once.

Progressions

Each key's diatonic chord family, positioned for the mixed-ensemble chart that asks the oud to sit inside it.

Exercises

Daily risha and left-hand drills with tab and playback built in.

The Five Ajnas

Hijaz, kurd, nahawand — every position recomputed note by note in CI, and the quarter-tone maqamat named as what this site refuses to fake.

Chord of the Day

The network's shared daily pick — positioned on the fingerboard and checked against the charted ajnas.

Free Tools

Tuner, metronome, theme builder — in the browser, no sign-up.

How It Works

Start From a Root

Pick a root and a quality — every charted voicing arrives on the C-F-A-D-G-C courses with its positions and fingers named, drawn for this neck and no other.

Read It Course by Course

Charts name what each course carries, scale maps mark every root, and the ajnas tables say which position on which course belongs to which tetrachord — and which maqamat this board cannot represent at all.

Set It Moving

Playback on every voicing, drills with tab and sound, and five charted ajnas to trace across any position — a taqsim is built from the fingerboard, not from a chord shape.

The Fingerboard's Home

Oud Warrior is the Warrior Network's deep home for the fretless oud. On an instrument with no frets, the interesting question is rarely which chord shape — it is where a tone actually falls, and how honest the chart is about the tones it cannot represent at all. So this site is built from the fingerboard outward: chords positioned course by course, scales mapped as a labelled 12-TET reference, three tetrachords charted exactly, and every derived number recomputed in CI rather than copied from a book.

Go Deeper

Guides and references worth bookmarking: the five ajnas · jins hijaz · jins nikriz · jins ajam · the daily position · the metronome · all tools. Want the same chord on guitar, ukulele, or any of 20+ string instruments? Our sister site String Warrior compares them all — this site goes deep where that one goes wide.