Comments on: The Music Store Apple Forgot About

By: Dave Gilmore

Dave Gilmore — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:32:37 +0000

I actually profiled this feature in Episode 2 of my podcast. (http://www.soni...es-and-The-Pope) This was one of the cooler things to come out of MacWorld this year to me and I’m quite surprised it hasn’t taken off. I gotta put the blame on Apple for this one, though. I think 3 updates since January is pretty sad. The thing that is going to drive this is the musicians releasing the lessons – not the beginner and other kid of lesson stuff. As many people have listed here there are lots of really great, free ways to learn how to play already available on the internet. Its the fact that you get to learn it from the original composer that will get this to go anywhere.

By: elephants and asses

elephants and asses — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:25:58 +0000

Unless you happen to play for a philharmonic.

By: selling clickbank products

selling clickbank products — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:11:49 +0000

Go find a good instructor in your local neighbor hood!

By: Mr Lake County

Mr Lake County — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:07:39 +0000

What is it that iTunes does do….(say that three times fast) What make it so special?

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:51:22 +0000

As a guitar beginner myself I use http://www.justinguitar.com which has awesome free video lessons including tabs from Justin Sandercoe. The vids are also accessible directly via youtube. Highly recommended.

By: Michael J. Styles Verruto

Michael J. Styles Verruto — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:24:40 +0000

This is a FANTASTIC thing in Garage Band and the lessons with the ACTUAL musicians are INVALUABLE… We need some Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend, Kieth Richards, Bruce Springsteen…. I would go BROKE….

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By: Brewer

Brewer — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:26:19 +0000

ITunes is cool and trendy because of what it does. Go back to your Zune.

By: Brewer

Brewer — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:23:59 +0000

Dude, you need lessons for RAP? You’d be the first to go that route.

Give it some time people, their will be more lessons.

By: Uri

Uri — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:49:36 +0000

http://www.songsterr.com is nice for guitarists.

Good point about the UGC lessons.

By: Peter Wells

Peter Wells — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:05:08 +0000

Jay, you paid $25 for a SINGLE? Something’s wrong, that’s not our price. Should have been $9.99.

Write me!

–Peter
peter@tunecore.com

By: alansky

alansky — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:07:42 +0000

Yo, James Stark: STFU!

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By: Anthony T

Anthony T — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:06:49 +0000

Totally agree here, I was tempted to get a new mac seeing that garageband is not compatible with powerpc. Apple, this is a unique opportunity to drive creative-ism away from the PC and I can imagine the “hi I’m a mac, and I’m a PC” ads showing off garageband’s potential. (have they even focused on this aaspect of the mac before??)

By: Preternatural

Preternatural — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:56:42 +0000

I’ve found some decent tutorials on YouTube. I play the Hammond B3 and the quality of some videos is lacking in actual instruction. Granted the B3 can have a lot going on but if you’re doing a tutorial registrations, voicing and other settings have to be explained. Sometimes the keyboard isn’t shown from a usable vantage point, and almost no one displays concurrent note information. Musicianship tends to be the focus and the instruction gets lost.

My hope is simply that were Apple to make the product available to say the YouTube “How To” community, tutors might better understand instruction method. Since the early days of the Apple Human Interface guidelines, Apple has always excelled at getting developers to consider a “core” way of implementing features, that has been great for users. If they did same with this platform, ideally the minimum standard of quality would be higher and worth $5.

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By: Chris Winn

Chris Winn — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:34:50 +0000

I think the idea of having an ad with some celebrity telling me I can play better guitar, but only if I buy a Mac, is exactly the sort of elitist persona that Apple tries to (smartly) steer clear from. The second you’re “too cool,” you’re way lame.

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:40:42 +0000

Look at things like GuitarPro; better way to learn how to play any song.

By: Mr P

Mr P — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:02:00 +0000

The quality on the lesson store is very good.
As a beginner I like being able to slow it down and go back and forth easily.

Also the quality and angle of the shots is far better than anything else out there.

No idea why it is being neglected by Apple.
They need to get on with it.

I upgraded to get the feature and purchased 3 guitar lessons. Happy to spend more.

Cheap compared to a nice guitar !

Mr P

By: Mr Lake County

Mr Lake County — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:03:50 +0000

But then it wouldn’t be “cool” and “trendy”.

By: Jason Ostrander

Sun, 17 May 2009 18:53:34 +0000

I haven’t used Apple’s product, and it looks pretty nice, but I’ve found youtube to be a good resource for learning guitar. Most pop songs have several video tutorials and while they’re not taught by the original artist, they are generally very high quality. I don’t think I’d be willing to pay for Apple’s lesson when such a quality resource exists for free.

By: Heavy

Heavy — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:31:48 +0000

They need to open up the store’s content to real music educators and not just “celebrities”.

By: G.Dimoff

G.Dimoff — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:58:42 +0000

cool idea indeed

By: jakeZ

jakeZ — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:39:28 +0000

Cool idea, but artists have been doing this since the 80’s on vhs. Lets not give Apple too much credit here. Anyone can build an online store.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:06:09 +0000

Agreed, I think this is a hidden feature that not a lot of people know about. I found it the other day while messing around with Garageband and was blown away.