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Huge congrats on the app... with the iPad coming out, it's the perfect time for this. A possible area for expansion (or maybe even a new app entirely). There'
by jgilliam 17y ago
Huge congrats on the app... with the iPad coming out, it's the perfect time for this.
A possible area for expansion (or maybe even a new app entirely). There's a whole world of classical music that is extremely competitive. Since you've got the iPad sitting on their piano, use the microphone to record yourself playing the song, and then it can be uploaded automatically and rated alongside others who've played the song.
Then you can have a leaderboard for each song, and even an overall leaderboard, like a global tennis rankings. They could challenge each other to a "duel" like a tennis match, or there could be a tournament. People can have their ranking, a profile, how old they are.
It would be hugely motivating to kids learning to play, and very disruptive/democratizing to the whole classical music world.
- sp332 17y agoLike http://fretwar.com/ http://fretwar.com/ , but for piano instead of guitar?
- wheels 17y agoGuitar Hero against other people online with real instruments could be an epic music education tool.
- ThomPete 17y agoThat's what Jesse Schell talks about in his great talk at Dice. http://fury.com/2010/02/jesse-shells-mindblowing-talk-on-the-future-of-games-dice-2010/ http://fury.com/2010/02/jesse-shells-mindblowing-talk-on-the...
- kylec 17y agoI like the idea of recording, but I don't really like the idea of ranking users. For one, who does the ranking? The users themselves are biased towards their own works and wouldn't produce a fair result, and ranking the performances algorithmically sounds like a recipe for disaster. I think a better solution is to instead try to form social networks. You could be matched with other users that like the same sort of music and have the same sort of skill level as you and you can swap performances and compositions.