Rock Prodigy: Guitar
By The Way of H, Inc.
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Description
Rock Prodigy® is your mobile instructor that works with any real guitar.
Use it to learn guitar and songs faster than ever. Follow the Rock Prodigy lesson plan to take you from beginner to pro.
Rock Prodigy listens to your guitar, shows you what to play, and gives you points for hitting the right notes:
• Use any real guitar
• Learn real skills
• Learn single notes and chords
• Learn advanced techniques such as bends, slides, and alternate tunings
Here's why it works and why Rock Prodigy is unique:
• HEAR the original master tracks from famous artists
• SEE how to produce the sound the you are hearing
• LEARN in real-time with instantaneous results
It's like having an instructor listen to you and give you "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" with every note played.
Getting started with Rock Prodigy:
• Use a real guitar: acoustic or electric
• Connect your guitar to your iOS device (iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4G or later)
• Tune your guitar (Rock Prodigy includes a built-in tuner)
Awesome app goodness to accelerate your learning:
• Slow-down speed without changing pitch
• Looping – Allows you to automatically repeat a portion of a song or lesson for practice
• Line-in can be enabled so you can hear your own guitar in the mix
• Included Lesson 1: How to use Rock Prodigy
• Included Lesson 2: Play Your First Tune
• Included demo song "The Road"
• Create a free account to download other lessons and demo songs from the Rock Prodigy online store
• Choose and purchase the songs and lessons that you want
• Chromatic Tuner with Alternative Tunings
• Touch-screen time bar – Easily navigate to the exact minute and second of a song or lesson
• Fast-forward and Rewind – Just swipe your finger across the screen to navigate to a specific section
• Auto-pause – Automatically pauses play until the correct note is detected
• Auto-play – Automatically hits every note so you always hear the guitar track
• Adjustable Guitar and Backing Track Volume – Mixer allows you to adjust the volume levels of each track
• Advanced Polyphonic Pitch Detection – get scored on single notes and chords – Yes, it’s a mouthful but this is technology behind the scenes that lets you use ANY guitar
• Authentic Master Recordings - That’s right, the original master recordings so you know exactly how you are supposed to sound. Be inspired!
• Immediate Performance Feedback – This is where the magic happens. Just play and Rock Prodigy listens to the notes and chords you play and tells you immediately how well you’re doing.
• 4 Levels of Difficulty For Each Song – Whether you are a beginner or a pro, there’s a way to jump in and start learning how to play songs immediately.
• Save Scores – Want to see how you are progressing? Where you need to sharpen your skills? It’s easy. Just save your scores and check out your progress on-line at www.rockprodigy.com.
• Share with Facebook and Twitter – Just learned to shred your first solo? Tell your friends about it now and drop the gauntlet!
• and much more...
Choose only the songs and lessons you want. No need to pay $50 or $60 for a CD or DVD full of non-original standards.
You learn what you want, when you want, wherever you want.
Questions or comments and want a direct response?
Please contact us at www.rockprodigy.com.
Thank you for using Rock Prodigy.
Thanks for playing guitar.
What's New in Version 1.5.2
v1.5.2
* play improvements
* line-in volume defaults to 100%
* internet message bug fix
v1.5.1
* iOS 5 compatibility
* Improved tuner
* Progress tracking
* Bug fixes
* Graphics improvements
* Filter songs and lessons
* Filter by difficulty
* Updated End User License Agreement and Privacy Policy
* General stability improvements
* Game Center Leaderboards for select songs
FOR BEST RESULTS, HERE ARE SETUPS WE RECOMMEND:
(We've done extensive testing using these setups)
- IK Multimedia iRig: iPad and later, iPhone 3GS and later, iPod touch 4G and later - guitar volume and tone on 10 with bridge pickup selected
- Apogee Jam: iPad and later, with Apogee Firmware update - guitar volume and tone on 10 with bridge pickup selected - Apogee Jam indicator light "green" but not "red" when playing
- Acoustic guitar with the standard Apple headset with mic
- Acoustic guitar played close to the device's built-in mic, and wearing headphones
ADAPTERS NOT TESTED INCLUDE:
We can not verify that these following adaptors will work satisfactorily or at all with Rock Prodigy:
- Woodees
- PRS Guitar Bud
- Peavey AmpLink
- Line 6
- or other adaptors that may be released
We are hard at work to include new devices in development and QA testing. Thank you for helping us continually improve Rock Prodigy!
Customer Reviews
Keeps me playing!
Great app! Doesn't describe it...
I'm forty something, have been trying to teach my self for a couple of years on and off. Mostly off because it's hard to prioritize playing guitar at my age with so much else going on, especially if you're not improving.
I have tried several self taught programs which have all had some value, but with no interactivity there is nothing to stop you from developing bad habits which in turn stops your progress.
This app has a simple intuitive Game like UI (great for younger players) which keeps me coming back. The backing track takes boring exercises and keeps them interesting because I'm actually playing to music and best of all it's interactive! It listens to my playing, so if I'm off tune or miss a beat I see it immediately and can correct it. The loop mode is especially useful for this.
It helps with my accuracy which leads to smoothness, and speed is the byproduct of accuracy. As with most beginners its takes a lot of my concentration to not look at the neck to see where my fingers are which makes playing slow and choppy. By having to watch the screen, at least until you learn the rhythm, it pushes you to learn the string and frets positions of the neck a lot quicker. You can't get this from a video lesson or a book.
After Completing a few lessons a day, I move onto a song to finish it up and feel a real since of accomplishment and see my self using this app for years to come.
As for cost? You can get started with all of their lessons and a few songs for about the cost of one quality private lesson. This would cost hundreds more to receive the same content If you where paying for private lessons. I know this to be fact as I have paid for my daughters lessons, then she lost interest!
So if you're happy playing to that boring metronome, don't buy this app. But if you want have fun while you learn, you won't be disappointed.
Two thumbs up!
Incredible
Convenient, effective, and fun. I'm a beginner but I've definitely seen improvement and the game like quality makes it that much easier to practice.
Keeps me coming back
Out of the "millions" of apps on the app store, how many do you have on your phone and how many of those do you use everyday? This app keeps me coming back to it, and more importantly playing my guitar. You can tell the developer put a lot of work into the software and money into licensing real band content. Is it perfect? Not yet, but it is a lot of fun and totally worth the time and reasonable amount of money for content. Plus playing with actual backing tracks and singers is a blast and really forces you to keep playing if you make a mistake; something playing from a TAB can't do.
The sound quality is great. The instrument note recognition is good. I would ask for some more beginner content and another level between Easy and Medium in the songs to help the beginner/intermediate player.
Get it!
- $0.99
- Category: Music
- Updated: Dec 10, 2011
- Version: 1.5.2
- Size: 53.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: The Way of H, Inc.
- © The Way of H, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
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