I don't blame Yousician. I find their guitar-teaching app both fun and effective so why shouldn't they charge money for their service? Nevertheless, I'm not willing to fork up any money right now so if I want to continue with the challenges and activities, I'll have to wait 12 hours. In the meantime, Yousician does allow you to play activities you've already completed but without feedback or any kind of scoring which essentially takes the reward system out of the game. Instead, I watched a few instructional videos it offers on identifying strings and tones (and semitones). After exceeding my activities limit and watching all of the instructional videos available on Yousician, I decided to go back to practicing "The Scientist", hoping that the skills I practiced through Yousician would maybe improve my play. It didn't. My chord transitions are still sloppy and my strumming is still inconsistent. With Yousician, I'd fail multiple times before passing an activity.
Instead, to give you a sense of where I'm at, I've posted a short video of me playing one of the Yousician activities. It's really nice having a song to keep tempo with. Also, it drowns out my poor note playing.
So what did I achieve this week? I'm making decent progress, just not directly towards my goal of learning to play "The Scientist". But hey, progress is progress, right? |
AuthorOn this page, I will document my progress throughout my 20% Project. The purpose of this activity is to see first hand how a 20time project can be used in education. Archives
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