Fender Play (online self-teach course)

[JackC1]

Part of the difficulties of self-teaching is the lack of critical feedback on your songs. You alone decides on whether or not to pass/fail on the songs.

I thought I'd give a quick demo on Fender Play's feedback feature. Here, Fender evaluates me on rhythm and pitch. (Although not in this demo, it does a good job on chords recognition too).



There are 4 available guitar methods in Fender Play (or "paths" as Fender Play calls them): folk, electric, ukulele, and bass guitar. In addition to these methods, Fender Play also has extra songs (outside of the methods) that you can learn (I recently learned Heartbreak Hotel on it).

The songs in the methods contain at least a video tutorial and a practice mode (which allows you to play with backing track at slower tempo). About 50% of the method songs also have the above-demoed feedback mode.

Fender Play's feedback mode reminds me of eMedia's Ukulele Method that I used to learn the ukulele (which also uses computer analysis to give feedback on rhythm and pitch).

Generally, my rhythm isn't stable; and having Fender Play's evaluation/feedback helps me understand my mistakes. I sometimes use a DAW to find problems with my rhythm but that requires more setup and can't find mistakes on pitch.

Overall, I think a self-teaching beginner can benefit from Fender Play's feedback mode.

[k_russell]

I know an experienced piano player that is using Fender's method. She is happy with it. She started at the beginning of the year and sounds quite good on the guitar already.