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Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013

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Re: Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013

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Post by sown »

b1ake wrote: post #12

I'm one of the guys behind this, thx so much for all of the support (and to @yegg for posting). Here's some more detail as requested by @ClayM and others... The Year of Rock is the work of two guys, myself and @bsstoner. It's powered by the @getinstinct platform, which we also built. Starting next week, we'll send a weekly guitar lesson by email to everyone who signs up. The lessons are entirely interactive. They lis…

Neat!

How does the hardware setup work if I have to use headphones in my apartment?

Re: Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013

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Post by b1ake »

sown wrote: post #21
b1ake wrote: post #12

I'm one of the guys behind this, thx so much for all of the support (and to @yegg for posting). Here's some more detail as requested by @ClayM and others... The Year of Rock is the work of two guys, myself and @bsstoner. It's powered by the @getinstinct platform, which we also built. Starting next week, we'll send a weekly guitar lesson by email to everyone who signs up. The lessons are entirely interactive. They lis…

Neat! How does the hardware setup work if I have to use headphones in my apartment?

As long as the computer microphone can hear the guitar, you don't any hardware.

That said, if you want to plug your guitar into the computer microphone jack, you can. You just need the right adapter to go from the wide guitar cable to the thinner headphone jack.

Re: Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013

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Post by paul9290 »

b1ake wrote: post #12

I'm one of the guys behind this, thx so much for all of the support (and to @yegg for posting). Here's some more detail as requested by @ClayM and others... The Year of Rock is the work of two guys, myself and @bsstoner. It's powered by the @getinstinct platform, which we also built. Starting next week, we'll send a weekly guitar lesson by email to everyone who signs up. The lessons are entirely interactive. They lis…

Nice job Blake; DreamIt 2008 :-)

Re: Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013

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Post by kunalb »

b1ake wrote: post #12

I'm one of the guys behind this, thx so much for all of the support (and to @yegg for posting). Here's some more detail as requested by @ClayM and others... The Year of Rock is the work of two guys, myself and @bsstoner. It's powered by the @getinstinct platform, which we also built. Starting next week, we'll send a weekly guitar lesson by email to everyone who signs up. The lessons are entirely interactive. They lis…

I just tried the Beethoven intro lesson for guitar -- first off, these are awesome for me as an almost-n00b guitar player!

Two suggestions:

- When you're holding really long notes the interval to see the next note is really small [the tab moves forward only once the long note ends so you don't have as much time to transition your fingers because you don't know/remember the next note; while in practice these should be the easiest transitions]

- Indicate the note lengths as well in terms of fourth or eighth notes, for those of us who like to count along.

Re: Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013

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Post by b1ake »

paul9290 wrote: post #23
b1ake wrote: post #12

I'm one of the guys behind this, thx so much for all of the support (and to @yegg for posting). Here's some more detail as requested by @ClayM and others... The Year of Rock is the work of two guys, myself and @bsstoner. It's powered by the @getinstinct platform, which we also built. Starting next week, we'll send a weekly guitar lesson by email to everyone who signs up. The lessons are entirely interactive. They lis…

Nice job Blake; DreamIt 2008 :-)

Old school :)

Re: Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013

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Post by b1ake »

kunalb wrote: post #24
b1ake wrote: post #12

I'm one of the guys behind this, thx so much for all of the support (and to @yegg for posting). Here's some more detail as requested by @ClayM and others... The Year of Rock is the work of two guys, myself and @bsstoner. It's powered by the @getinstinct platform, which we also built. Starting next week, we'll send a weekly guitar lesson by email to everyone who signs up. The lessons are entirely interactive. They lis…

I just tried the Beethoven intro lesson for guitar -- first off, these are awesome for me as an almost-n00b guitar player! Two suggestions: - When you're holding really long notes the interval to see the next note is really small [the tab moves forward only once the long note ends so you don't have as much time to transition your fingers because you don't know/remember the next note; while in practice these should be…

Awesome to hear, I love the Beethoven lessons. Some classical stuff sounds really cool on a guitar (esp Beethoven on an electric).

Both good suggestions. We haven't found out a great way to handle scrolling with long notes yet. Also, agreed that it would be cool to show 1/4, 1/8 notes etc. Would love to find a subtle way to do it within tab, rather than with a tab/staff notes blend.

Re: Year of Rock: weekly interactive guitar lessons for 2013

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Post by freehunter »

b1ake wrote: post #22
sown wrote: post #21

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Neat! How does the hardware setup work if I have to use headphones in my apartment?

As long as the computer microphone can hear the guitar, you don't any hardware. That said, if you want to plug your guitar into the computer microphone jack, you can. You just need the right adapter to go from the wide guitar cable to the thinner headphone jack.

If anyone is searching for this adapter, it is a 1/4" jack to 3mm (or 1/8") in common industry terms. I've got one, but don't expect to easily use it for much besides this app. Microphone input jacks on most PCs are not designed to amplify guitars or make their input sound good (in my experience). There are pre-amps for doing this kind of recording, though.
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