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segment I picked today were guitarists. My program could be used by all
musicians, but I decided to interview guitarists for the purpose of this
assignment.
I found three people: Josh, Theo, and Maureen.
When each of them realizes that they would like to write a song, they usually
start with a riff or a melody. All three agreed that the program would be
greatly beneficial, especially in finding chord shapes and working in certain
keys. Usually, they’ll google a chart or not worry about keys at all. Not
worrying about keys is usually an innovative and interesting way to shape songs.
Also when trying to learn a song, they’ll become flabbergasted at trying to
find out what chords are being played, and will often have to play all twelve
notes just to find a chord that’s plays for not even two seconds, requiring them
to rewind the song and listen to the part again and again.
I learned from these programs that this program should focus on scales and
modes as well as the main keys, so that people can write in whatever scale/mode
they want, or figure out what mode a song is using.
Guitarists are definitely a fairly large portion of my research. They are fairly
representative of your average music player, as they’ll teach themselves other
instruments and try to write songs. This segment helped me learn quite a bit about
what they really want, and I will work to incorporate modes into my program’s
plan.
Hey Danny! I play piano, and I have these same problems when trying to learn a new song. Often I have to replay the same 3 seconds of a song over and over to try and mimic which notes are being played, which is tedious and time consuming. learning a new song this way becomes a massive commitment. Sometimes I look up sheet music (if it's somewhere on the internet for free) just to see which chords are being played for each measure, just to get my bearings and have somewhere to start. Your program, for those reasons, would be massively helpful not just to guitarists but to pianists as well.
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