Your ONE-STOP online Oud class to get you from zero to hero!

Never held an Oud before? No problem. Let's build a solid foundation!

• Learn to properly hold the Oud and risha so you can get good sounds out of your Oud.
• Overcome your fear and shame about reading music with a simple approach to music notation just for Oudists.
• Make friends with your tuning pegs so you can reduce your time tuning the Oud... and have more time for having fun.
• Learn all the basic notes on the Oud fingerboard.
• Build confidence by learning tremolo early so you have plenty of time to develop the skill for it.
• Reduce the time it takes you to develop a strong strumming hand by learning my inconspicuous training method that lets you practice anywhere, anytime... even when you don't have your Oud with you...
• BONUS Tutorial: Learn how to practice with a metronome.
• Make your life easier with the quickest trick in the book to find half-flats/quarter-flats/microtones.
• Catch up with the crowd by learning 8 basic maqams.
• Be ready for your first jam session with well-known tunes everybody knows like Salouny an-Nas (Fairuz), Dulab Rast, Bint al Shalibiya and more!
• Enter the world of common Arabic rhythms.

• Develop your technical skill while subconsciously absorbing important melodic changes.
• Experience different Oud styles by learning repertoire from different Oud cultures like Lamma Badda, Zorouni (Fairuz), Sirto Nakriz, Aziz Joon and more!
• Add SOUL to your playing by learning ornaments and embellishments.
• Become unstoppable and develop POWERFUL playing technique with my fingering exercises and risha workouts that will make you an Oud marathon runner and will keep your skills up even if you have little time to practice. 
• Learn essential odd rhythms like 7/8’s and 10/8’s and tunes that go along with them.
• Learn tunes that include authentic modulations to different maqams so you absorb the rules of modulation with muscle memory and intuition.
• Learn 3 essential Sama'i every Oud student needs to know - Samai Bayati Al Aryan, Samai Hijaz by Mohammed Abdo, and Samai Nahawand by Mesut Cemil Bay - and learn with the right intonation so you'll sound like a pro.
• Learn advanced left hand fingering options so you can navigate the fingerboard like Munir Bashir.
• Get a Bonus Lesson "Get started with improvisation (taqsim)"

You will feel confident that you can progress knowing you have...

• Effective exercises that ramp-up finger dexterity in your right and left hand (and gave me my first real “aha!” moment with the Oud)
• Super easy shortcuts to find microtones, and dominate tremolo (even if you’re a complete beginner and new to microtones and maqams) 
• Advanced fingering techniques that will allow you to play all the way up and down the fretless fingerboard gracefully, with precision and good intonation. 

By the end of the program, you’ll dispel the mystery of the Oud so you can get started quickly, without making the same time-stealing mistakes I did.