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*GUITAR TUNA* —>
(you have to open/close app first to get past the ads)
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*turn on ‘auto’ in ‘top right corner’ so the tuner automatically detects the string you are playing*
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*’yousician’ is an ‘online platform’ for learning/playing ‘musical instruments’ developed by the finnish company ‘yousician ltd’*
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The platform consists of two apps, Yousician and GuitarTuna, which can be downloaded for use on desktop and mobile devices.
As of March 2021, the platform has over 20 million monthly active users worldwide.
Yousician offers interactive learning for guitar, bass, ukulele, piano and voice with lessons, exercises and songs. The app gives music learners real-time feedback, making it a popular choice among self-learners.
GuitarTuna is the most downloaded instrument tuner in the App Store and Google Play Store, with over 100 million downloads as of March 2021.
The app offers 100+ tunings for 15 instruments.
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History
Yousician Ltd. is a Helsinki based music education company founded by Chris Thür and Mikko Kaipainen in 2010 under the name Ovelin,[1] as part of the Startup Sauna accelerator programme at Aalto University
Yousician states its mission as “Making musicality as common as literacy”.[3] The company develops and operates a music service called Yousician, and a tuner application called GuitarTuna.
In January 2021, Yousician collaborated with Disney and Pixar to bring music from the Disney and Pixar film “Soul” into the app.
In May 2020, Yousician launched its educational learning platform Guest Teacher Series, which provides music students with digital Q&A sessions with professional musicians. Featured musicians include Jason Mraz, Nancy Wilson from Heart, Mark Bryan from Hootie and the Blowfish, Phil Collen from Def Leppard, and Declan McKenna.
Yousician[edit]
Yousician is currently available for five instruments: guitar, piano, bass, ukulele, and voice. For each instrument, Yousician features a lesson plan developed and produced in-house by the company’s music educators. The lesson plans are designed like music courses and consist of lessons, exercises, tutorial videos and minigames.
Yousician’s audio signal processing technology guides users as they learn to play real musical instruments. Users follow dynamic sheet music or tablature notation on their device’s screen and play along to a backing track. Using the device’s built-in microphone, Yousician listens as they play, recognizes notes and chords, and gives real-time feedback on accuracy and timing. The technology works without extra accessories, and can be used with both acoustic and electric instruments.
Yousician offers a song library containing 1800+ songs that users can learn to play using guided playthroughs and real-time feedback. The song library includes licensed content by popular artists like Jason Mraz, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay, The White Stripes, and Billie Eilish, as well as songs performed by the in-house band The Yousicians. The app offers songs for all levels of learners, from beginners to advanced, with a range of levels available for most songs.
Yousician operates under a freemium model where one lesson per day is given for free, while unlimited lesson time is offered via paid subscriptions.
Reception[edit]
Yousician was released in November 2014, to mostly positive reviews. Guitar World called it “modern technology’s gift to music education” and in March 2015 it was featured as ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the Apple iOS App Store.[4] Critical voices usually do not question the product itself, but contrast it to the option of learning to play an instrument in private lessons. Voicesinc.org for example stated that “If you’re happy to learn from a digital screen, then it’s great, but if you want a lot more human interaction and demonstration, there may be some better options.” As of October 2018, the Yousician app had 227,660 ratings on Google Play with an average 4.5 of the 5-star rating and on the iOS App Store 10,076 ratings with an average of 4.3 of the 5-stars.
Yousician was featured two times as ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the iOS App Store and won a “Best of 2016 Apps” award from Google Play. Yousician was one of Wired’s top 100 European startups in 2012,[5] and were also featured in The Sunday Times “World’s Best Apps List 2012”. Yousician and its apps have won several technology and start-up competitions, including SXSW Accelerator 2012 (Music)[6] and Midemlab 2012.
In June 2018 Yousician began what the company has called a “sunset of the song upload feature” which was completed with the October 2018 update 2.58 that removed all user-generated content from the app.[7] The removal of user generated content sparked opposition among some vocal users online. Coincidence with introduction of what Yousician calls popular songs, licensed songs by well-known bands and artists, that was announced with the update 2.55 on 23 August 2018[8] led to speculation about the motives of the decision, however Yousician as a company has not elaborated on the reasons of their business move.
Legal[edit]
The creators of Yousician had been sued by Ubisoft over claimed patent infringement on their patent U.S. Patent 9,839,852, for an “Interactive guitar game”, which Ubisoft had used in their game Rocksmith.[9] In August 2019, a federal district court ruled that the patent claims of Ubisoft were too broad and not defined in enough specificity, nullifying the patent and dismissing Ubisoft’s suit.[10]
References[edit]
^ Lappalainen, Elina. “Tamperelaiselle Ovelinille miljoonasijoitus Piilaaksosta”. Talouselämä. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
^ Armstrong, Stephen. “Europe’s hottest startups 2015: Helsinki”. Wired.co.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
^ “Landing page”. Official website. Yousician. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
^ Priario, Guitar World. “Yousician Is a Fast, Fun Way to Learn to Play Guitar”. Guitar World. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
^ Cheshire, Tom. “Europe’s 100 hottest startups 2012: Helsinki”. Wired.co.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
^ “SXSW Music Accelerator 2012 Recap”. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
^ alexch2441. “Why is music uploading function disappeared?”. Yousician.com. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
^ “Yousician update – version 2.55”. Yousician.com. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
^ US patent 9,839,852
^ Sinclair, Brendan (August 13, 2019). “Ubisoft loses Rocksmith patent suit”. GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
External links[edit]
Official website
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yousician
Yousician
Contributors to Wikimedia projects6-8 minutes 10/23/2012
Yousician
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Industry Music education
Founded December 2010; 10 years ago
Founder Chris Thür & Mikko Kaipainen
Headquarters
Helsinki
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Finland
Key people
Chris Thür
(CEO, co-founder)
Products Yousician for Guitar, Piano, Ukulele, Bass, Voice
Yousician for Educators
GuitarTuna
Number of employees
126
Website yousician.com
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