Many lessons are built around hit songs by the likes of Drake, Diplo, and Charlie Puth. Indeed, those genres are the ones that Melodics mines. For many of us-brought up on hip-hop, techno, jungle, EDM, a million other micro-genres-that approach didn’t fit with what we felt in the music: the energy, the fun.” It raises images of endless scales tinked out an an untuned piano, aching hands trying to get the fingering right for an CMaj7#11 chord on the guitar. “We kind of dislike the word ‘practice,’ at least as it’s used musically. Melodics’ front-facing language is even more rigid … about not being rigid! “Melodics is definitely about learning to play an instrument, but it’s much more about helping people to practice and get into good habits of practicing a bit every day, and to make that practice as effective and efficient as possible,” he says. MELODICS IS A SPONSOR OF BERKLEE ONSITE 2019: LEARN MORE! The key to the Melodics approach is making practice fun and productive, and Sam is adamant that five minutes of practice each day will pay dividends. I think it’s one less layer of abstraction for your brain to deal with.” “With the combination of the audio, which of course you don’t have with written sheet music, it’s a lot simpler.
#Melodics vs software#
“A lot of our audience are people who are using software to make music, and it’s the same visual representation as they would have within the software that they’re using,” Sam explains. This lesson from Aron Ottignon covers off the first five notes of the C Major scale. The scrolling notation in Melodics is part Guitar Hero and part piano roll. Importantly, the need to be literate in traditional music notation is sidestepped. Borrowing aspects from modern music production software and taking some cues from video games, it’s a music lesson experience designed to be accessible, motivating, and enjoyable for learners. He launched Melodics in 2015 with lessons in pad-based percussion, to see if his model would work, and then the company quickly expanded to offer electronic drums, and most importantly for Sam, keyboards. Since he couldn’t find any existing products on the market to remedy his standstill, he started a company that would. It was this varied background that perfectly prepared him to solve his piano practice exasperation. Gribben had been the CEO of Serato Audio Research for a decade and he also had experience DJing. “I was quite aware of the fact that I was not practicing the right way, but I didn’t know what the right way was.”
“There were just certain things that I wasn’t getting better at no matter how much practice I did,” he says.
He had watched countless YouTube videos and put in plenty of practice time. Sam Gribben was frustrated that he wasn’t becoming a better piano player.
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