The world's modal traditions, one app

Every tradition
is a different way
to feel.

From the microtones of Anatolia to the modes of jazz, the world built dozens of ways to turn a scale into an emotion. The Modality is your guide to all of them — hear them, learn them, and feel how they connect.

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What you'll actually do

Not flashcards. An ear, opening.

Hear it first

Play a scale no piano can reach.

Every makam rings out on a real ney, tuned to the 53 microtones a keyboard skips over. Tap any degree and hear exactly where the feeling lives. Sound first — theory only when you want it.

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A living map

Watch your understanding
become a constellation.

No streaks. No guilt. As you explore and practice, a dark sky fills in — each mode a star that brightens the more you truly know it. Progress you can see, as terrain instead of a scoreboard.

Color as meaning

Read a whole tradition
at a glance.

Every family of makams, every shade of a jazz mode, carries its own color — so the structure of a tradition becomes something you can see, not just memorize. Browse by feeling, family, and brightness.

Rast
Uşşak
Hicaz
Segah
Saba
Crossroads

Discover why jazz and
Hicaz are cousins.

The best part of knowing more than one tradition: seeing how a single feeling travels between them. Short, illuminating pieces — how a jazz mode and Hicaz share one ancient interval, and the two roads to grief.

Two living traditions

Begin where you like.

Move between them anytime. Two complete worlds today — with more on the way.

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Modal Jazz

The American conversation with the modes.

Seven colors hidden inside one scale — the sound Miles Davis set free on Kind of Blue.

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Turkish Makam

The microtonal poetry of Anatolia.

Fifty-three commas to the octave — feeling found in the spaces a piano cannot reach.

Indian RagaSOON

Melody bound to time and season.

GregorianSOON

Where the mode names were born.

Persian DastgahSOON

A thousand melodies in memory.

FlamencoSOON

The deep song of Andalusia.

The world has a hundred ways
to move you. Start with two.

A scale can be
a state of mind.

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