Speaking of guitar, many people like the music it plays, but it is relatively difficult to learn. For those beginners, they don't know how to start. The author has taught guitar by himself for several years. Although he has passed through a painful initial learning period, his technology can not be improved in any way. The main reason is that no teaching leads to low enthusiasm and neglect of practice. Recently, I was lucky to come across an intelligent guitar which is called "visual teaching". What is the magic of it? Today's article gives you a deep understanding of Geek's smart guitar.

Part1 | Appearance

The logo of "GEEK" on the head of Geek smart guitar is clearly visible. The buttons of the piano twist smoothly, facilitating the adjustment of the strings. When leaving the factory, the strings have been tone calibrated, eliminating the trouble of self adjustment. When I got it, after a test, every tone was accurate.

The tension of the strings is moderate, and the extra strings on the buttons have been cut short. It looks clean and neat.

The back shows the model version of the guitar and the vip activation code. The activation code is used to activate vip on the end app, which can achieve more functions, such as chord 。

The mahogany neck is of moderate thickness, which can be completely grasped by one hand and feels comfortable.

The overtone points on the neck are clearly visible, facilitating the identification of guitar taste.

LED lights are embedded in each product of the fingerboard. The combination of lights can display chords for "visual teaching". When the power is not turned on, it is difficult to find LED traces on the fingerboard.

When the power is turned on, the LED lights of all guitar products will light up. There are two rows of LED lights in a product, the top row represents the empty string, and the middle row represents a product.

Geek smart guitar uses spruce panel. Because the spruce wood panel performs well in the mid frequency, and the sound is bright and clear, many plywood guitars use spruce wood panels.

There is an iron wire drawing button under the piano code, which is the switch of Geek smart guitar.

The piano body adopts the missing angle design, although it has lost the beauty of symmetry, it is more convenient to play in the high pitch area. Its back plate is made of Sabri material with regular lines. There is also a small iron cap used to fix one end of the guitar strap at the missing corner.

There is a QR code of playing bar on the back of the guitar, and I can't help complaining when I see it. It's clear that the QR code of the app already exists in the manual. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder like me can't help but want to tear it off because it looks very mismatched. Although the intention of the manufacturer is to allow users to scan and download apps for connection, it may be better if the QR code can be directly printed on the paper box, just like the advertisements of the poles.

There is also a small iron cap at the bottom of the guitar to fix the strap. There is also a battery box at the bottom for storing batteries.

Open the battery box, you can see that the Geek smart guitar has two rechargeable batteries built in when it leaves the factory, each of which is 300mAh.

Part2 | Introduction to App

Maybe many beginners of guitar have encountered this situation. When playing and singing in front of others, the chord of the main song was so skillfully pressed that it could not stop. The singing was called a lyric. When the chorus swept the strings to help the atmosphere with tears, it suddenly stopped because of forgetting the chord accompaniment. How embarrassing the atmosphere is

GEEK Smart Guitar has creatively created the mode of self-study guitar, which displays the corresponding fingering in the form of LED lights. Turn on the intelligence of the power supply, connect the "Piano Bar" app, and select the corresponding music score to practice synchronously.

The Piano Bar provides users with a place to exchange guitars in the form of a community, and some high-quality posts are preferentially displayed on the home page of the community. The popularity includes the original videos of netizens. The show and diary are similar to the form of a circle of friends. Users can share their status of piano learning and their own performances. Q&A and seeking music scores provide a place for piano players to ask for help. Music scores and questions can be asked for help in the corresponding section.

The music library of the piano bar has a built-in music library of piano and guitar, popular, finger and classical. Common popular and latest music scores are displayed first. In order to take care of beginners, the piano bar has also opened a special practice section. In each section, some popular music scores and song lists are displayed first.

In the classroom, some teaching videos are provided. Both beginners and advanced players can find the videos they want. The videos can be played smoothly without advertisements.

Play Bar App as an auxiliary learning guitar , many useful tools are built in. There are chord and scale query tools, metronomes, tuners, teaching materials, and guitar related settings. The piano playing bar supports user-defined fingerboard, which is used to assist user-defined learning. At the same time, there are chord games, which can deepen the memory of user chords. After activating vip, all levels can be unlocked. The dazzle mode can make some settings on the LED light for playing.

The personal center contains some personal information, including posts, the release and collection of music scores, guitar links and other information. I won't go into details. They are all shown in detail in the figure.

Part3 | Play&visual teaching demonstration

GEEK Smart Guitar creatively opens up a visual teaching method. After connecting the smart guitar with Bluetooth, click the music score you want to learn to start self-study. If you find that the music score font is not suitable, you can click the display button at the lower left corner to adjust it.

When users practice music scores for the first time and face complicated chord conversion, they are likely to be confused by unpredictable LED lights. In order to facilitate learning, Geek smart guitar can control the playing speed, slow down and speed up. At the same time, it also provides some settings such as metronome, countdown, etc. For some music scores that need to be played with the help of tone sandhi, LED lights can be displayed correctly by raising the pitch. After testing, because it does not send tone sandhi clips, it is impossible to lower the tone of some original high grade music scores, but only to raise the tone. I see some music scores that say "second grade sandhi clip". If you don't have sandhi clip, it is basically impossible to learn through visualization.

There is a very practical tuner function in the upper right corner. Why do I need a tuner? Because not all guitars are traditional models of 1E, 2B, 3G, 4D, 5A and 6E. Some music scores need to change the tuning mode to make it easier to play, while Geek Smart Guitar provides a comprehensive tuning mode to facilitate tuning.

Part4 | Summary

Smart guitar has good appearance and sound. It has a fashionable appearance, adopts spruce panel, and is of good workmanship. In addition, its neck is moderately thick, and the minimum height of the strings is only 2mm, which makes it feel great! When I practice the guitar, I use LED lights on the fingerboard to follow the light optical guitar. You can also turn on the dazzle light mode to play cool after you have mastered it. For the first time, you feel that learning guitar is so powerful!

In terms of software design, the piano bar app is designed to be comprehensive and rich in tools. However, the division of sections is detailed. Too many sections will make the app look less concise. The contents and functions of some sections are ambiguous and repetitive. For example, "GEEK connection" in the tool is repeatedly displayed in "My". It is hoped that the official app design can make some appropriate simplification and consolidation of the sections, so that the app can be displayed simply and intuitively, which will be more convenient for learning.

In addition, I found that the software does not start the countdown by default when connecting the App. When you click the music score, the music will play immediately, which makes people unable to reflect. Although it can be set in more places, this book should have a preparation time, but it needs to be set by yourself, which is troublesome.

In general, although Geek Smart Guitar is a guitar for beginners, it is not comparable to an ordinary 1000 yuan guitar in terms of workmanship and functions. It's worth recommending!