Progressions in F — Oud

F major harmonises to F – Gm – Am – Bb – C – Dm – E°; F minor to Fm – G° – Ab – Bbm – Cm – Db – Eb. Each chord links to its Oud voicings, so a change in F becomes a short list of positions rather than a search.

This diatonic table is Western tertian theory, laid over an instrument whose own repertoire leans on maqam more often than on chord changes — a useful map when the oud sits in a mixed ensemble, and honestly labelled as a borrowed lens rather than the instrument's native one.