I'm one of the co-founders of Magic Instruments, back in April we launched with what the public called "real Guitar Hero". However, we got a ton of feedback from our customers asking if this would eventually teach them how to play the normal guitar.
At first we were puzzled, since we could do things like this for people who have either never played the guitar or have tried & quit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zggHFOH8g
We never thought that this could be a way to teach you traditional guitar chord fingerings since there are a ton of products out there that already do that: Fretlight, gTar, Jamstik, and Rocksmith to name a few.
However, once we realized that we could leverage both one touch chords aka Magic Mode with traditional chords and learn chord by chord, we had essentially created a step function to learn the traditional guitar, while still keep the student engaged by being able to play an entire song that is recognizable on the first go.
Fender just put out a very timely article on their biggest hurdle to keep people from abandoning the traditional guitar is to get them to play their first song. We think we've come up with a novel solution that reducing the cognitive load of playing your first song.
I know there are a ton of music experts on HN and would love to hear your constructive feedback and comments!
I'm one of the co-founders of Magic Instruments, back in April we launched with what the public called "real Guitar Hero". However, we got a ton of feedback from our customers asking if this would eventually teach them how to play the normal guitar.
At first we were puzzled, since we could do things like this for people who have either never played the guitar or have tried & quit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zggHFOH8g
We never thought that this could be a way to teach you traditional guitar chord fingerings since there are a ton of products out there that already do that: Fretlight, gTar, Jamstik, and Rocksmith to name a few.
However, once we realized that we could leverage both one touch chords aka Magic Mode with traditional chords and learn chord by chord, we had essentially created a step function to learn the traditional guitar, while still keep the student engaged by being able to play an entire song that is recognizable on the first go.
Fender just put out a very timely article on their biggest hurdle to keep people from abandoning the traditional guitar is to get them to play their first song. We think we've come up with a novel solution that reducing the cognitive load of playing your first song.
I know there are a ton of music experts on HN and would love to hear your constructive feedback and comments!