Yousician: Guitar Lessons

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Description of App

YOUSICIAN - the fast, fun way to learn, play and master the piano, guitar, bass or ukulele. Enjoy thousands of songs on your REAL INSTRUMENT!
(supports acoustic and electric instruments)

Yousician is your personal music tutor for the digital age. Learn at your own pace, whenever and wherever you want. The app listens to you play and gives
instant feedback on your accuracy and timing. Our curriculum, designed by expert music teachers, will help musicians of all levels improve, from complete
beginners to professionals.

Step-by-step video tutorials guide you through each lesson. Fun and addictive gameplay tracks your progress and keeps you motivated to practice and learn.
You’ll be amazed how fast your skills advance. So go grab your guitar, bass or ukulele, or go sit at your piano or keyboard, and start playing now!

Who is this for?
• Pianists, Guitarists, Bass & Ukulele players
• Complete beginners
• Advanced & professional musicians
• Music teachers

What is included?
• Over 1,500 missions & exercises, with hundreds of videos, covering all the skills you need: sight reading sheet music, classical and pop songs for Piano,
and for Guitar and ukulele you’ll learn chords, strumming, melodies, lead, fingerpicking and more.
• Yousician also teaches you music theory and Includes special trainers for each skill & chord.
• A Weekly Challenge, where you can compete with friends and millions of Yousicians worldwide.

How does it work?
• It listens to you play the piano, guitar, bass or ukulele
• It gives you instant feedback on your performance
• It takes you through awesome songs and step-by-step tutorials that suit your playing level
• It makes learning fun with rewarding gameplay and challenges
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SELF-LEARNERS,
Yousician has been developed with the world’s most innovative and experienced music teachers. It is perfectly suited for self-learning or as a supplement
to learning with a teacher. With step-by-step tutorials and constant feedback you can always be sure you’re playing right.

EDUCATORS / TEACHERS
Teachers all over the world are using Yousician with their students in private lessons, small groups, and classrooms. Yousician keeps students engaged,
helps build technical ability and timing, and increases practice between lessons. Learn more at http://teachers.yousician.com

PLAY WITH PIANO / GUITAR / BASS / UKULELE
Yousician is played with a real instrument, and requires no additional equipment. The microphone listens to you play and the app tells you how you're performing.

GREAT PREMIUM FEATURES
- Unlimited playtime across all platforms.
We offer the following premium plans:
- One instrument: 1 year: $119.99, 1 month: $19.99, 1 week: $4.99
- All instruments (piano, guitar, bass, ukulele): 1 year: $179.99, 1 month: $29.99, 1 week: $7.49
These prices are for US. Pricing in other countries may vary.

Your Yousician Premium subscription will automatically renew at the end of each term and your credit card will be charged through your iTunes account.
You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings but refunds will not be provided for the unused portion of the term.

ABOUT YOUSICIAN
Yousician is the largest and fastest growing music educator in the world with over 10 million users. We believe musicality can and should be as commonplace
as literacy.

Version

2.39.1

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

11.2.1

Accessibility Comments

VoiceOver does not read any elements of the screen other than video controls and text edit fields. You cannot go through the initial setup process without sighted assistance. I went as far as the tuning of my Uke and discovered that I could enter my login details which I created on the website and control the videos that came up. I also discovered that the chromatic tuner, unlike so many out there gives you both visual and audible feedback when your instrument is in tune.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads no page elements.

Button Labeling

No buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

Some parts of the app are accessible with VoiceOver, but not enough to make it usable.

Other Comments

This app, while initially free does have a premium subscription service which will, apparently, give you more songs etc. I had heard so many good things about this app when i started to learn the Ukulele at the end of November but sadly it's just not accessible at all other than the things I have mentioned above. Also, I am from the UK so the link here will probably take you to the UK store but it's available in other countries too such as the States. I have contacted support today with a very lengthy email pointing out the parts of the app that work well and how making it accessible would greatly benefit blind musicians. I also plan to get on their facebook community and their twitter feed and do exactly the same. I will let you know how I get on.

Developer's Twitter Username

@yousician

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Comments

By hamiltonthemus… on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 15:36

My friends who are cited use this app and they love it and have learned a lot, I wish it was accessible with voiceover, there’s a lot of instruments I want to learn. I am going to contact the developer on Twitter I will let you know if I hear anything, did they respond to your email?

By Kerry Fielding on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 15:36

Hi. That's brilliant. I think we need to put some real pressure on these guys and get them to do something about this app and the more of us that contact them regarding the accessibility issues, the more weight it will carry i suspect. I haven't had a response as yet but this may be due to the fact that it was the weekend when I initially emailed. I am also not sure where about in the world the developers are. The videos I have listened to were done by an Australian man but I think I saw that they were from Finland so who knows? A piece of advice, if you do contact them and you decide to do it via their website, use your iDevice. I really struggled with this on a windows pc and found it much easier using my iPhone with Safari. Keep us posted as to whether you get a response and i will do the same.

By Kerry Fielding on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 15:36

Hi all. Just got the following email from support. I'm off to do as they say and advise anyone else interested to do the same. If it helps and I get a link to my feedback I'll post it here so you can add any comments/support.

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out to us and for your feedback!

The best platform for your feedback to be heard is our Feedback forum here:
http://feedback.yousician.com
Please add your voice to an existing idea or create a new one if you couldn't find it already.

The Support Team can't pass on feedback directly but adding your ideas on the forum ensures that our developers hear about them first hand. Additionally,
you will be able to see what other ideas are out there in our Yousician community.

To discuss ideas further within the community feel free to also:

list of 2 items
• leave comments on other ideas
• join Facebook (unofficial) groups - yes, we still read them!
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Thanks again for getting in touch!

Update. Someone already beat me to it. Here's the link if you wish to add your voice and vote to the feedback.
https://yousician.uservoice.com/forums/296820-welcome-to-yousician-feedback-forum/suggestions/14738049-please-fix-your-app-so-that-he-can-be-used-by-peop