Arabic Song Maker AI — Name The Dialect, Not Just Arabic
Describe the song in a sentence and the lyrics are composed in Arabic — in the dialect you name — not translated into it. Then they are sung: Khaleeji, Egyptian shaabi, a Levantine ballad, raï or tarab.
It writes and performs original Arabic songs from a description. The instruction that matters most is the one every other tool on this search leaves out: which Arabic. Modern Standard Arabic — fusha — is a written and formal register that nobody speaks natively, and lyrics written in it sound like a news broadcast rather than a song. Arabic popular music is sung in dialect, and the dialects differ enough to change the words entirely. Name Egyptian, Khaleeji, Levantine or Maghrebi and you get a song. Say only "Arabic" and you are leaving the most consequential choice to chance.
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Eight Arabic Traditions And The Dialect Each Lives In
Divided by region and register rather than by mood, because the dialect changes the lyrics and the regional percussion changes the sound. Both are things you have to name.
Egyptian pop & shaabi
CairoThe pan-Arab idiom. Cairo’s industry made Egyptian the dialect most of the region parses without effort.
Mahraganat
Cairo streetElectronic street music — frantic synth lines, auto-tuned vocals, drum machines. Deliberately raw.
Khaleeji
GulfMirwas hand drum and Gulf ornamentation, call-and-response built for line dances and celebration.
Levantine & dabke
Lebanon, Syria, JordanThe Fairuz register — lyrical and restrained — or dabke, driven and made for a line of dancers.
Raï & Maghrebi
Algeria, MoroccoGasba flute, bendir and accordion with electric instruments. Often code-switches into French.
Tarab & classical
Pan-ArabTakht ensemble, taqasim opening, melismatic vocals. The register is available; the hour-long form is not.
Sufi & nasheed
DevotionalRepetitive dhikr, hypnotic rhythm, ecstatic delivery. Nasheed is often voice and percussion only.
Arabic trap
ContemporaryTrap drums and 808s under Arabic bars, usually in dialect with an oud or qanun sample on top.
How to Make an Arabic Song in 3 Steps
Name the dialect, name the maqam and instruments, then listen closely.
Name the dialect, not just Arabic
Egyptian, Khaleeji, Levantine, Maghrebi, Iraqi. Fusha is the formal written register and sounds like a news broadcast in a pop song — nobody sings in it.
Name the maqam and the instruments
Hijaz for longing, Bayati for tenderness, Nahawand for something close to Western minor. Then the oud, qanun, nay, darbuka or mirwas.
Read the lyrics, then listen closely
Check the words before they are performed. When it comes back, listen specifically for the quarter tones — that is where any AI-generated maqam is weakest.
Dialect And Maqam Beat Adjectives
A prompt asking for a beautiful Arabic song gets you fusha over generic strings. A prompt naming a dialect, a maqam and the instruments gets you a region.
“A beautiful Arabic song.”
“Write and sing a Levantine song in Lebanese dialect around 84 BPM in Maqam Bayati, oud and qanun with a light riq pulse, female vocalist restrained and melismatic, about a village the family has not seen since 1982.”
“An energetic Arabic track.”
“Write and sing a Khaleeji track in Gulf dialect around 120 BPM in Maqam Rast, mirwas hand drums driving throughout with oud ornamentation and call-and-response backing voices, male vocalist, festive and communal.”
“Traditional Arabic music.”
“Instrumental Arabic classical piece in Maqam Hijaz, free-rhythm solo oud taqasim opening with microtonal ornaments, qanun arpeggios and soft riq entering into a 4/4 at 90 BPM, contemplative and unhurried.”
Two Things This Search Does Not Tell You
The pages competing here are genuinely well researched on maqam theory and instruments, and thin on the two things that decide whether your song works. First, dialect: not one of them mentions it, yet fusha versus Egyptian versus Khaleeji changes the lyrics completely and fusha is nobody’s singing register. Second, quarter tones: maqamat depend on pitches between the Western half steps, and models trained on equal-tempered material do not reliably produce them — which is why the more careful competitors write "maqam-inspired" rather than "maqam". We would rather tell you what to listen for. The other gaps are ordinary: no stems, no length control, no audio input, MP3 only.
- Dialect treated as the first decision, not an afterthought
- A straight answer on quarter tones and which maqamat come back reliably
- Lyrics composed in Arabic script, never translated
- Instrumental path for oud and percussion beds under narration
- Honest gaps: no microtonal guarantee, no long tarab form, no stems, MP3 not WAV
Arabic Prompts Worth Copying
Each names a dialect, a maqam and the instruments. Two are instrumental; the rest are sung.
Levantine ballad
“Write and sing a Levantine song in Lebanese dialect around 84 BPM in Maqam Bayati, oud and qanun with a light riq pulse, female vocalist restrained and melismatic, about a village the family has not seen since 1982”
Khaleeji celebration
“Write and sing a Khaleeji track in Gulf dialect around 120 BPM in Maqam Rast, mirwas hand drums driving throughout with oud ornamentation and call-and-response backing voices, male vocalist, festive and communal”
Oud taqasim
“Instrumental Arabic classical piece in Maqam Hijaz, free-rhythm solo oud taqasim opening with microtonal ornaments, qanun arpeggios and soft riq entering into a 4/4 at 90 BPM, contemplative and unhurried”
Egyptian shaabi
“Write and sing an Egyptian shaabi track in Cairo dialect around 110 BPM, darbuka and accordion driving it with a keyboard riff on top, male vocalist wry and streetwise, about a wedding that got out of hand in Shubra”
Raï
“Write and sing a raï track in Algerian dialect around 108 BPM in Maqam Kurd, gasba flute and bendir with accordion chords and electric guitar fills, male vocalist passionate and raw, about leaving Oran for work and not saying goodbye properly”
Documentary bed
“Instrumental Arabic bed around 76 BPM in Maqam Nahawand, nay flute over sustained strings with sparse darbuka, spacious and unhurried, space left at the top for narration”
Who Makes Arabic Songs Here
Reels & shorts creators
Original Khaleeji and mahraganat hooks that are not a claimed track.
Video editors
Oud and nay beds that leave room for narration.
Families & weddings
A song with real names, in the dialect the family actually speaks.
Songwriters
A maqam-led draft to react against, with your own chorus kept.
What You Get
A sung Arabic song
Stereo MP3, male or female vocalist, near three minutes.
The written lyrics
In Arabic script and your dialect, refinable before singing.
Download on paid plans
Full commercial rights, no attribution, no expiry.
Free share link
Stream it and send it before spending a download.
Frequently Asked Questions
Starting with the choice every other page on this search skips entirely.
Which Arabic dialect should I ask for, and does it matter?
It matters more in Arabic than in any other language, and not one competing page on this search mentions it. Modern Standard Arabic — fusha — is the written and formal register and is nobody’s native spoken language; ask for "a song in Arabic" and you risk lyrics in a register that sounds like a news broadcast or a recitation rather than a song. Almost all Arabic popular music is sung in dialect. Name the one you want: Egyptian, Khaleeji, Levantine, Maghrebi, Iraqi or Sudanese. Egyptian is the safest default for pan-Arab pop because Cairo’s film and record industry made it the shared idiom, and it is the dialect most listeners across the region parse without effort.
Can it actually do maqam and quarter tones?
This is the question to ask on this search, and here is the straight answer: name a maqam and the melody will lean towards its characteristic shape, but do not treat microtonal accuracy as a promise. Maqamat such as Rast, Bayati, Sikah and Saba depend on quarter tones — pitches sitting between the Western half steps — and generative music models are trained overwhelmingly on equal-tempered Western material. Notice that the more careful tools on this search say "maqam-inspired" rather than "maqam". That word is doing real work. Maqam Nahawand and Kurd map closely onto Western minor scales and come back most reliably; Hijaz, with its augmented second, usually reads correctly too. Test the microtonal ones on your free credits and listen specifically for whether the quarter tones are there.
Are the lyrics really in Arabic, or translated from English?
Composed in Arabic from the first line. Name the language and dialect and the words are written in it directly rather than drafted in English and translated. Arabic punishes translation especially badly because its root-and-pattern morphology means meaning and rhythm are bound together — a translated line loses the internal assonance that makes a lyric sound sung rather than spoken. Write in Arabic script; you can read the lyrics before a note is generated and change anything that will not sit on the melody.
What instruments should I name?
Naming instruments does more than any mood word. The oud is the centre of the tradition and is fretless, which is precisely why it can play the microtonal inflections a maqam needs. The qanun gives you shimmering plucked runs, the nay a breathy end-blown flute line. For percussion, the darbuka is the goblet drum that drives most of it, the riq is the jingled tambourine, and the bendir a frame drum. Regional markers matter too: the mirwas is what makes Khaleeji sound Khaleeji, and the gasba flute is a raï signature.
Can it do a taqasim or a long-form tarab piece?
Partly, and it is worth knowing where the limits are. A taqasim is a free-rhythm solo improvisation, and you can ask for one as an opening — "solo oud taqasim, free rhythm, before the darbuka enters" — and get something in that spirit. What you cannot get is the long form. Classical tarab performance runs to twenty minutes or an hour; a song here lands near three, because the twelve-section lyric sheet renders at roughly two-fifty to three minutes and there is no length control at all. So the tarab register is available; the tarab duration is not.
Can I write the lyrics, or does it write them for me?
Either. Describe the song in plain English or plain Arabic — "a Levantine song about a village his family has not seen since 1982" — and the lyrics are written for you in the dialect you named before anything is sung. Or paste words you already have and they are used as written. There is room for 4,000 characters, which is enough to name the dialect, the maqam, the instruments and the story without choosing between them.
Can I get an instrumental for a video?
Yes. Say "instrumental" or "no vocals" and the request is routed down a separate instrumental path rather than producing a song with the singing stripped out. This is the common case for Arabic content — an oud and darbuka bed under a documentary or a travel edit, with no vocal competing with the narration. There is no seamless loop export, so trim a steady passage in an editor if it needs to run under a long cut.
Is it free, and can I release the song?
15 credits on signup with no card covers one complete song, and streaming plus a public share link stay free. Downloading and commercial use need a paid plan from $15 a month for 250 credits. On a paid plan the licence is full commercial with no attribution and no expiry, and no third-party rights holder exists, so releasing it or using it in a video is covered. Credits refund automatically if a generation fails. Audio is stereo MP3 — no WAV, no stems.
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Which Arabic Is It?
Cairo, the Gulf, Beirut or Oran — name the dialect and the maqam, and hear one free before you decide anything. 15 credits, no card.