The world of music is a miracle world that is an unbelievable number of people as passive listeners. As many of them would like to be among the musicians themselves, many of them could actively play an instrument.

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Traditional music lessons and its challenges
Traditional music lessons have played an important role for decades. But despite its importance for musical upbringing, there are always challenges that teachers have to cope with.
One of the biggest criticisms of traditional music lessons is its lack of flexibility . Fixed teaching plans are often processed and pupils have hardly any scope to live out their own interests and talents.
Finding suitable teaching material can also prove to be difficult, especially in terms of current topics or special music genres such as classical or jazz.
In addition, rhythm exercises or reading of music can be a challenge for some students.
In the end, it was sometimes considerable costs for individual music lessons that have been able to cost musical training properly over the years.
Web 2.0 and innovative online learning platforms for needs-based music lessons
with the Web 2.0 , everyone was able to conquer the world of music from then on, because the music lessons were now available online.
music lessons on the Internet made new platforms such as get2Play.com (no longer available in 2023). In April 2013, the GmbH of the same name from Berlin launched online music school
On this portal, pupils were able to search for the very best music teacher that it offered many professional teachers a new marketing channel that was able to significantly top the attention that had been reached via other advertising channels on the Internet or via local classified ads.
The website offered online video history , in which musicians were very vividly to learn how to deal with their favorite instrument . The learning videos were well thought out and structured, and they offered a wide variety of service functions, such as three different camera perspectives, slow motion functions and loop functions .
Every learner was able to use this knowledge in a practical way by playing an online instrument the live video chat So he was able to "sweeten" the tiresome practice by z. B. rehearsed and played current songs or by rehearsing the techniques of his role models online.

Learning was further facilitated by a video chat, practical online booking and interactive multi-camera doories -so they could only learn in the age of Web 2.0. They learned what they wanted, when they wanted, from who they wanted and where they wanted - and all of this in a really simple way, in an unprecedented individuality and inexpensive.
The search for the precisely suitable teacher was no longer limited to the surrounding area Get 2 Play So now you can really find the perfect teacher, if not here, it will probably not exist.
Get 2 Play, according to his own statement, had made the best e-learning platform for music . The company founders were enthusiastic about the new opportunities to learn that offered the Internet and is interested in every experience, criticism or opinion that could contribute to the development of the platform.
The idea for the interesting start-up was created in 2012 when one of the founders published a video on YouTube, in which he played a composed piece. It was his first video, and in no time at all, fans from all over the world came up with several thousand clicks who asked about percussive fingerstyle for lessons.

Obviously there was a great need for an e-learning platform for music, and with a view to the development of this won, founder Tobias now first at the startup Weekend Hamburg and then searched software engineer Jan, the two moved to Berlin and founded Get2Play.
Unfortunately, the platform is no longer available, which could also be due to the fact that the range of online courses, platforms, virtual learning environments and adaptive learning apps in recent years-not least due to the digitization thrust as a result of Corona pandemic-revolutionized music lessons.
That leads us to music lessons 3.0 ...
Music lessons 3.0 - Learn instruments via the app
Modern apps can be a valuable addition to traditional music lessons. For interested laypersons, the completely autonomous learning of an instrument is now also possible with the help of an interactive app .
There are many different applications that can help students improve their skills in the musical field. Some of these apps are specially geared towards children in primary school, while others are also suitable for secondary school students.
The topic of the app application very diverse: from rhythm exercises to making music to the imparting of basic knowledge in music lessons, there are numerous opportunities to make learning with the help of apps varied and interesting.
In conventional music lessons, it can be difficult to individually take into account the needs and skills of each individual student. But modern apps offer an opportunity for exactly that: individualized learning in music lessons .
With free downloads of teaching materials or specialist information, students of the primary school can find detailed information on various topics related to music up to the secondary school.
Making music is also made easier by apps, for example by rhythm apps or those that support the use of the metronome. Classical music can be conveyed in a playful way through interactive applications. In this way, every student can improve their musical skills and develop according to their own pace - a great advantage over traditional teaching style.
The latest developments in artificial intelligence will do an additional boost here and offer a highly adaptive and intelligent 1-to-1 music lessons , which are based on the student and their development intelligently accompanies and promotes.
Mag . Dr. Wilfried Aigner in cooperation with the Institute for Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Mileage and the University of Music and Performing Art Vienna A clear presentation of apps related to music lessons :
Unusual instruments & sounds
The same or similar apps are listed, each for the smartphone operating systems Android and iOS.
App for Android | Information | App for iOS |
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Nodebeat | Gesture -controlled musical instrument | Nodebeat |
Plasma sound (HD) | Gesture -controlled sound generator | – |
Sonorox, Music Grid, Arpio | Gesture -controlled musical instruments on a "grid" basis; Step sequencer | Music Sound Key / Tnr-i |
Sphere tone | Gesture -controlled musical instrument | Drop dots |
Reactable | Gesture-controlled (professional) musical instrument | Reactable |
Ultra Voice Changer | Record your own sounds & change with effects | Voicecherangerplus |
Heat synthesizer demo/pro | Sound synthesis, midi-compatible | Geo Synthesizer |
Piano Voice - Record & Play | Recording & sound design | Soundoscope, samplr |
– | Sound generator u. Midi controller | Sound Prism (Pro) |
Ethersurface, saucillator | Gesture -controlled sound generators, (Ethersurface: with dynamic control) | TC-Performer, Bebot |
Pixelwave, Spectrumgen | (Experimental) synthesizer | Pixelwave, Spectrumgen, Sylo Synthesizer |
– | Play chords | Soundprism |
– | Gesture drive music synthesizer | Gyrosynth |
"Ordinary" instruments
App for Android | Information | App for iOS |
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Drum kit or real drum | Drums | Drum kit pro |
Real Guitar | guitar | Real Guitar |
Solo 2 (Guitar Solo Lite) | guitar | Orphion |
Act piano | Piano (+notification of grades) | Virtuoso Piano Free 3 |
Perfect Piano | Piano & other (key) instruments | Thumbjam |
My piano | Piano & other Instr., Own samples can be recorded; Midi-capable | Thumbjam |
Strasser Harmonika | Replica of a 4-row Knöpferlharmonica | Strasser Harmonika, Ocarina |
Piano Voice - Record & Play | Recording & sound design | Soundoscope, samplr |
Toy piano | Toy Piano - replica | Toy piano |
Drum Pads 24 (various variants) | Electronic drum & beatmaking pads | Drum Pads 24, IMASCHINE 2 |
Beat Shaker Free | Schlaginstr. Move by cell phone | Shaker box |
Walk band (Premium) | Well playable Band-Instr. (Keys, g, b, dm) + numerous instrumental plugins | Garage Garage Band |
– | Band instruments | Rockmate |
– | 40 different instruments | Thumb Jam |
– | Piano - play chords, songwriting | Navichord Lite |
Bass guitar tutor | E-bass | Bass Guitar Tutor |
Further tips on activity and reception in the musical and artistic field can be found in the Kunstplaza categories music and art courses & artistic training .

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