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?
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5/6/2016 03:33:55 pm
George,
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George
5/12/2016 09:59:41 pm
Thanks Emily! I wouldn't call it a success in the sense that I haven't reached my intended goal, but I do agree that it was a success in a more general sense because this project has inspired me to continue practicing until I actually can play a song. Yousician is great and it is quite similar to Guitar Hero except the songs aren't pop music and the activities are often WAY harder, at least for me. Thanks for reading my post.
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5/10/2016 09:31:21 pm
Hey George,
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George
5/12/2016 10:03:33 pm
Hi Danielle. Yes, I'm quite self-conscious about my horrendous attempt at playing "The Scientist". I don't think I'll be posting a video of me trying to play it for my final post but I may screencast myself using Yousician just to exemplify how it works and how addicting it can be. Learning the song by the end of summer is my goal, in fact! If only I had unlimited access to Yousician. I might have to end up pulling out my wallet for the paid, unlimited access version. Thanks for the feedback.
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Megan Gonzales
5/14/2016 03:07:06 pm
George,
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