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Instruments

Six guided programs, written instrument by instrument.

Piano, guitar, violin, voice, flute and kora: 219 modules and 876 lessons. Each program tells you plainly what the app listens to, and what it does not.

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  • A hand resting on a piano keyboard in warm side light

    Piano

    39 modules · 156 lessons · 5 levels

    Scored listening

    From posture and finding your way around the keyboard to accompaniment, harmony and interpretation. The app listens to your playing during exercises and shows an estimated score.

  • Hands playing a chord on an acoustic guitar

    Guitar

    39 modules · 156 lessons · 5 levels

    Scored listening

    Positions, chord changes, reading tablature and working the neck. The app listens to your playing during exercises and shows an estimated score.

  • A singer, eyes closed, singing into a microphone

    Voice

    37 modules · 148 lessons · 5 levels

    Scored listening

    Breath, pitch accuracy, placement and interpretation. The app listens to your singing during exercises and shows an estimated score.

  • A musician’s hands playing the strings of a kora, above the calabash

    Kora

    29 modules · 116 lessons · 4 levels

    Experimental listening

    You can follow the program in French or in English. It is presented as a preview, not as a finished program: the reason is explained below.

  • A violinist playing with the bow in front of sheet music

    Violin

    38 modules · 152 lessons · 5 levels

    No automatic scoring

    Hold, bowing, left hand and intonation, all the way to playing in an ensemble. The program is complete, but the device does not assess the violin yet: you play the exercise and the app tells you so.

  • Fingers on the silver keys of a concert flute

    Flute

    37 modules · 148 lessons · 5 levels

    No automatic scoring

    Embouchure, breath, fingerings from C4 to C7 and articulation. The program is complete, but the device does not assess the flute yet: you play the exercise and the app tells you so.

Photo credits (Unsplash): piano, Tadas Mikuckis; guitar, 42 North; voice, Josias Garibay; kora, Matt Benson; violin, Luwadlin Bosman; flute, Eleonora Paolino.

Microphone listening

Three listening levels, shown before you play.

The sound is analyzed on your device, and the results differ from one instrument to another. The app shows its listening level on the exercise itself.

  • Scored listening

    Piano, guitar and voice. The app listens, recognizes sustained notes and shows an estimated score based on your device’s microphone input.

  • Experimental listening

    Kora. Recognition is experimental and may miss notes or passages. It is clearly labelled as a preview and is never presented as finished.

  • No automatic scoring

    Violin and flute. The exercises display and you can play them, but no notes are recognized and the saved result is marked “not assessed by the device”.

  • Our measurements, in full transparency

    We will publish our performance measurements along with their protocol. For now, the results obtained on real recordings do not yet reach our target thresholds.

Practice · PianoNo sound

Play the C major scale, right hand.

C4✓D4✓E4✓F4✓G4✓A4✓B4✓C5✓

8 of 8 notes recognized

Hear how Instruzic analyzes playing, using audio recordings.Sound credits: piano and violin (Freesound, CC0), guitar (University of Iowa MIS), voice (VocalSet, CC BY 4.0), flute (Good-sounds, MTG-UPF, CC BY 4.0), kora (dobroide, Freesound, CC BY 4.0).

The kora, without overpromising

A complete program, with validation work still to do.

The kora has 29 modules and 116 lessons, with their media and exercises. Two validation steps are still outstanding, and neither is a software issue.

No korafola has reviewed this program yet. Whether the notes shown are the ones the player intended depends on the tuning used (tomora ba, silaba, hardino, sauta), on which hand plucks, and on what is melody and what is accompaniment. This validation by a player is still to be done.

A recording session is also missing: strings played on their own, soft and strong attacks, kumbengo and birimintingo patterns, traditional tunings. In the meantime, these lessons rely on generated diagrams, and they say so.

What they share

One structure, a method tailored to each instrument.

Every program starts with a placement test, moves forward module by module and completes each module with an assessment. Six standalone courses round it all out: musician health, stage preparation, reading symbols, instrument care, history and free play.

Choose your instrument and get started.

The first module of every instrument is free, along with the placement test.

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