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(I'm talking about Pramod's Kevin here)School Band Member and
Wannabe A Cappella Singer
This interviewee was fairly familiar with music, having some experience with piano, violin, drum, and choir. When we asked him about differentiating notes, he was very excited, and said that it was super important to him, since he wanted to sing a cappella. He was primarily interested in sight reading, but had actively spent time training his ability to differentiate notes.
Most interesting to us was that he had a very specific way of training his own ability to read notes.
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What we also found interesting is that he doesn't really believe music can be taught without human interaction. He emphasized that reinforcement from a person when you're learning is important, and it would be important to get consistent, helpful feedback from Want something more a web application. He wants something deeper than "you did this right or wrong"
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Guitar Player
1. Guitar. Advanced novice, but haven't played in years. Some singing.
2. No. Some relative pitch.
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This interviewee played guitar for a long while some years ago, and enjoys singing. He has some sense of relative pitch, and said he'd be very interested in practicing exclusively to get better at differentiating pitch, since he thought it was important in appreciating music. He never considered training the skill in isolation because he didn't think it was possible. He believed it was something that could only be picked up as you were playing.
He was interesting to us for two reasons.
- He played exclusively guitar. The other interviewees all talked about the piano, and when he spoke of music, he referred to strumming the guitar. This reminded us that not everyone who is learning music is familiar with the piano interface.
- He strongly believed everything should be available online, and thought it wasreally cool to consider using a web application to help with steps in the music learning process.
Other Interviewees
Other people we interviewed included someone with perfect pitch who believed the skill "couldn't be taught to an adult."
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