Learning an instrument can “take a long time before you can actually play something that sounds good.” For her two boys, who play the trumpet and drums, “they’re getting to taste it wihout me telling them to sit down with a cello.”Įvy Schiffman, director of marketing at the Community School, said she was thrilled to see the kids so engaged.
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“My boys are not string players.To experiment with this software that is essentially a string instrument gives them a window into trying a new instrument without the barrier of learning the new instrument itself.” “It’s fascinating,” said Petra Clark, a strings teacher at the Mountain View school whose two boys joined the workshop. “We don’t try to just imitate instruments, but explore new music-making experiences.” Wang, 33, has already developed other popular music apps for the iPhone and iPad, including Magic Flute (where the user blows into the microphone and taps on the screen to play notes) and Glee Karaoke that he developed with the cooperation of Fox Digital Media. “It’s not meant to replace instruments, but augment,” Wang said. “Let’s swell up in a crescendo,” he said, instructing one boy to put his left thumb closer to the center of the fiddle. Pretty good!” On his mark, he gave them a downbeat. Or, as Wang said, “we already sound like we’re in a horror movie. “One, two, three –TAP!” he said as the magic flute and the music to “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” appeared on the screen.Īs they tapped the colorful, digital strings, the sounds amplified by speakers, they almost sounded like an orchestra warming up. “Now put your index finger on the top string.” After the tutorial, Wang raised his hands like a conductor: What we have here is a weird circular bow - we call it a circle thingamabob,” Wang said. “Don’t slouch.” When their chins touched the iPad screen, graphic bubbles streamed across it and the iPad was turned into a violin. “Have good posture,” said Wang, a Stanford assistant professor in music and computer science who founded Smule in 2008 less than two miles from the Apple Store on University Avenue. Heejung was invited to attend a workshop with nine other students hosted by Apple and presented by Ge Wang, whose company Smule created the iPad app “Magic Fiddle.” As the students from Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View sat on stools around a circular island at the back of the store, each with an iPad in hand, Wang began the lesson. Seventh-grader Heejung Chung walked into the Apple Store in Palo Alto on Wednesday evening with a violin in a hard case strapped on her back, but spent the next hour playing the iPad on her shoulder.
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