Blake Jennelle struggled to learn guitar. He started and then gave up three times while growing up, trying various books, teachers and online lessons. Finally, as an adult, he decided to build a way to teach himself. He created his own software that would recognize the pitch of the notes he played, letting him know when he needed to tune or wasn't placing his fingers quite right on a certain chord. "The goal was, have any human sit down, who has never picked up a guitar before, and with the teaching software and the pitch correction, they can be playing a recognizable riff in the first ten minutes."
The service, called Instinct, is now available for free to web users. The interface relies on your computer's microphone (whether...
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