While it’s a tool for helping you learn, Melodics is also about forming good habits around practice. And, while you can dip into specific tracks, you can also expect more complex courses such as 'Harmony Masterclass' with respected musician/producer Mark de Clive-Lowe. Lessons vary in difficulty and encompass topics such as chord progressions, gospel chops and modern funk basslines. And, according to Gribben “it also learns as you play, and like a good tutor, Melodics works out what you need to work on, and helps you to achieve your goals.” There’s immediate feedback on your playing - notes light up in different colours based on whether you got it right, hit the wrong note or were early or late in your playing. Notes scroll towards you, and you aim to play them as they arrive. After a practice phase, you attempt to play the piece at the correct tempo. Plug any MIDI keyboard into your computer and you’ll be presented with a layout of a keyboard. Gribben: "You really don’t want to be practising something wrong because you can learn bad behaviours.” That’s where Melodics may be able to help. “Being able to loop a section, slow it down and then automatically increase the tempo as you get it right - these are the sorts of things that we add” he says, "Then there’s also a Wait mode where it only progresses when you hit the right note, so you can really step through things."ĭevelopment of the Melodics app was also informed by the latest research into effective practice techniques. Taking cues from learning apps such as Duolingo, Gribben asked himself whether this same kind of technology could be transposed to the music world. “I thought, why is no one nailing this? They’re nailing it with learning languages, so why aren’t they nailing it with learning instruments.” That’s how Melodics was born. It’s amazing - there are millions of lessons but it’s really one-way." I was getting frustrated with learning off YouTube. Gribben explains the impetus behind the software: "I bought a Fender Rhodes because Fender Rhodes, right? And could never play it. The new Keys functionality builds on two years of refinements within the Pads environment and applies these to the keyboard. The Mac and Windows app already has a user base of over 100,000 and boasts lessons contributed by the likes of DJ Jazzy Jeff and John Tejada. It’s for people who are making music and the message is ‘get better at producing, get better at creating music by learning to actually play your keyboard.' It’s very much not piano lessons,” says Gribben, "It’s going to be things like techno basslines, trap leads and house progressions. We caught up Melodics founder (and former Serato CEO) Sam Gribben to find out more. Melodics - the music learning platform that’s been described as 'Guitar Hero for drum machines’ - today gets a major overhaul aimed squarely at producers, adding lessons for Keys.
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