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Problem

  • make a tool that helps people learn or train their ability to distinguish musical notes
  • provide a way to start learning / playing music without the need of a musical instrument or trainer
  • make the platform interactive and social (yet personal) enough so that people don't drop-out
  • (optional) allow people to compare / detect speech from audio files of music / singing

Users

  1. Novice Piano Players - Piano players are the main body of our target users simply because there are a lot of them. Most of the people we interviewed had attempted to learn piano at one point or another, and noted that note differentiation was one of the skills they would like to improve at.
  2. Other instrument players - We discovered that some of our interviewees were novice guitar players, and we believe they're a significant part of the population as well. Their goals are similar to that of the piano player, but we must keep in mind that the interface they are familiar with is significantly different from the piano players.
     
     
    It's worth noting that our user classes do not explicitly address the needs of a cappella singers, because they are more interested in learning how to produce notes that are written, and those of people with perfect pitch, who don't have such needs.

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