Qanun only
The Single Instrument plan, with the qanun chosen at checkout.
$15/ month
or $144 / year, save 20%
- Every qanun lesson, song and exercise
- Music theory included
- 50 assistant messages a month
- Pitch feedback in every lesson
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Arabic · Plucked zither
Qanun
قانونTwenty-six courses, one light for each. Nawa lights the course to pluck, sets the mandals for the lesson’s maqam, and listens as you play, in Arabic and English.
- Courses
- 26
- LEDs
- 26
- Range
- G2–D6
- Lessons
- 50
The board
One light under every course.
The Nawa qanun controller has 26 LEDs, Q1 to Q26, one for each course from the low G2 up to D6. The lesson’s maqam sets the mandals, the small levers beside each course: Rast lowers E and B to half-flat, Hijaz raises F to F♯, on screen and on the controller.
- LEDs
- 26, one per course (Q1–Q26)
- Courses
- 26, G2 to D6
- Mandals
- Flat, half-flat, natural, half-sharp and sharp
- Maqamat
- 37 mandal presets, from Rast and Bayati to Sikah and Nikriz
- Connection
- Bluetooth LE
- Sync
- The lesson’s maqam is sent to the controller’s mandals
Lessons work without the controller too. Every course and its mandals are also shown on screen.
Every note
Tap a course to light it.
The 26 courses, lowest at the top, the way the app numbers them. Each dot is one LED. Tap a dot to hear the course and see the same light come on, on the qanun.
- Course LED
Set the mandals for a maqam
Rast on C, with E and B half-flat. These are the four maqamat of units 3 to 6. A changed note stays on its own course, the mandal does the rest. The ringed dot is the note now, the numbers are the next three.
A lesson
Learn it, practise it, then perform it.
- LearnNawa plays each note, then waits until you play it right. It tells you when to go higher or lower.
- PracticeThe piece runs at 75% tempo, looping, with the metronome on. Every pass gets a score.
- Play alongThe melody plays while the guide shows each note as it comes.
- PerformNo melody and no hints. Score 80% or more to complete the lesson.
Nawa listens through the microphone and checks pitch on a 24-tone scale: within ±35 cents for notes and ±20 cents for half-flats. Lessons also say which hand plucks.
