Scale & Chord Explorer
See and hear any scale or chord, in any key, on the fretboard.
Key
Labels
C Acem (Ajam)
Middle Eastern & Turkish Makams / Maqams
In Arabic music Ajam equals the Western major scale. (The Turkish Acem makam uses a Kürdi-like scale instead.)
Makams use intervals smaller than a fret (komas, quarter tones) and are defined as much by their seyir (melodic path) as by their notes. Shown here is the nearest 12-tone, fretted approximation, so some makams land on the same notes.
Tap any dot to hear it.
Formula
Notes
Steps
H = half step, W = whole step