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Fretello — Duolingo for learning how to play guitar
Fretello is your personal guitar teacher. Any place. Any time. It gives you fun and engaging exercises, understands how you play and provides you with the essential feedback you need to take your playing to the next level. With Fretello you become the guitar player you always wanted to be.
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Hi @__tosh, Wolfgang from Fretello here:
Fretello uses data mining to select from a large pool of exercises. Exercises, so-called motifs and sequences, are categorized, e.g. by difficulty, popularity, genre and other aspects. Fretello learns from your habits, asks you what you like and what you don’t like and uses your musical fingerprint to select exercises that fit your individual taste of music.
Another good question @__tosh. While your mindset is critical when cycling licks over and over at low speed until you can play them cleanly, Fretello helps to motivate you by providing different backing tracks each week. Backing tracks are basically songs you can play to to put into practice what you have learned. To diversify your training, the key signature varies each week an so do backing tracks. They are dynamically created based on your individual taste of music.
This looks fantastic and I like the focus on beginner mindset + psychology here. Finally gives me a reason to dust off my ignored guitar and give this a try!
@alirtariq thank you very much for your feedback. We're really trying to focus on the educational aspect and connect it to playing so that you actually understand what you play.
I like these sort of apps, but unfortunately my beautiful baby is lying under my bed 12hours from me :(
Look really nice, however I just had a look at the warm-up for the first session while on the bus and then went back to the main menu and it now won't let me return to it. It has a tick next to it as if I've completed it and I can't see a way to set that I haven't 😟
Hi @catchpowle, once you complete the warm-up by clicking the next button on the screen, the warm-up is completed.
Thanks for the hint though, we'll consider allowing to go back to it.
This looks awesome. One of my hang-ups with practicing is I'm never quite sure what to work on next. Pardon if I missed it, but where does the content come from? Is it all created in-house?
Hi @buckwilson, yes everything is developed in-house. The content is created together with professional guitar teachers. Backing tracks are created dynamically for each key and genre, so they don't need to be pre-recorded which saves us a lot of time as well.
You also highlighted a very interesting pain point that we want to solve with our app: Which exercises do I have to practice to get closer to my goal as a musician and how do I practice correctly so I make progress?
Looks interesting. You've mentioned that it relies on "musicological evidence" a number of times - could you expand on what you mean by that in this context?
Hi @alexandercatter, good question. It means that the didactic concept we use has been developed together with different, independent music teachers and students over a period of almost 10 years. Concerning our app it refers to the way how exercises and parameters such as the practice tempo are selected to fit the user's skill and to guarantee faster progress.
Hi @truvoip, currenlty we offer a 14 day free trial, after that we are charging 9.99 per month for access to our virtual trainer. Compared to common music lessons where you pay up to $50 a week for a good teacher we think that's a fair deal.
Thanks Tosh for hunting us!
Fretello helps you learn guitar faster, more effectively, and permanently. It creates individual exercise regimens that are tailored to your specific needs, detects how you play, selects your optimal practicing tempo and adapts dynamically to your progress.
Key Features
• Creates personalized exercise regimens that fit your specific needs
• Analyzes how you play and adapts to your skill dynamically
• Well-proven methodology for motor activity training
• Guarantees great progress with 3 to 5 sessions of 30 minutes
• Practice 5000 different exercises from the pentatonic scale
• Learn techniques such as alternate picking, legato et al
• Jam to 250 backing tracks from pop, rock, blues and metal
• Understand music theory basics to develop your musical skills
• Based on musicological evidence
Fretello’s unique didactic concept has been developed with and tested by guitar teachers with more than 200 students over multiple years and is based on state-of-the-art musicological evidence.
Please don’t hesitate to ask any questions related to our product!
If you want to know more about our project, please visit us at www.fretello.com or contact us via email, twitter or Facebook. Share with us what you like and which features you’d love to see in the future.
Looking forward to giving this a try. Especially interested in this: "Analyzes how you play and adapts to your skill dynamically".
Hey @bradford_shimp, we'd love to hear your feedback since this is the tricky part of our app. We have huge plans for this functionality for the future. So we are also interested in metrics you personally would like to know, such as information about your timing, pitch accuracy, etc.
Any video of how the app actually works? I've wanted to learn how to play a guitar for a long time - and have one - just never find time for it - ie: I'm a complete beginner. Does the app help with getting started or does it throw you right in and "here are some chords - good luck!" type thing?
Hi @mario_a_giambanco, we are currently working on a tutorial video and also a wiki to add some useful instructions allowing you to make faster progress.
You can start practicing right from the beginning and no, we are not starting with chords. Instead you will learn some simple motifs and melodies that you'll practice really slow at first to train your muscle memory (from a musicological perspective, chords are not the right way to start by the way) Also you will be able to play along to backing tracks from the beginning.
If you have further questions you can also write us an email at support@fretello.com and directly talk to one of our music teachers.
Hey @orliesaurus, @passingnotes, @1greigcranfield, @aboutphilippe, @tariktech, @rogerh1991 and @mmedina8. I saw that you recently discussed about other apps for music education on Product Hunt so I was thinking that you could be interested in Fretello as well... Let me know what you think!
@florian_lettner thanks - saw this earlier and am going to try it out - also going to turn my son onto it and see what he thinks. definitely on the right track putting tabs alongside standard notation since the vast majority of guitarists can't read standard!
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