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Melodics lessons need more pads7/21/2023 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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