The Verge: Anaheim’s National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) show featured plenty of traditional instruments, but as always, there was also a lot of cool music tech. From pro DJ hardware to gadgets that upgrade the instruments you already own to innovative music education tools and apps, NAMM showed that now, more than ever, the worlds of music and tech are intersecting in interesting ways.
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I am a person who feels really strongly about arts education. I had a great experience with arts education and I’m one of the lucky ones. It is known that arts education is one first things to get cut at a school when the inevitable budget cuts come creeping in. What I love about this article is that it is talking about new technology that is bringing arts education into the homes and for children at younger ages. I am one of the kinds that wish every day that I had better music training as a child. So to see that the music business and the tech industry are coming together to form an increasingly close collaboration makes me really happy. That is one reason why I like music and sound it is in one of the felids that is ever changing and evolving as technology evolves and there are so many ways to intertwine technology and sound to make an intriguing mix of art and technology which creates a collaborative environment between these two industries.
These sound so cool, especially the gadgets to help teach young children how to love and appreciate music and making their own music. The ONE Piano Hi-Lite in particular seems like a genius invention - plenty of kids learn how to play piano, but with something like this not only would it become a more tactile experience to learn new songs but it would become more fun, like learning a video game. If it really is "Guitar Hero-style", then playing piano would become like mastering a level of a video game and give greater incentive to learn. I also loved the idea of the other two products that stat kids off early learning how to create synth music - trying to get into that as a teenager, I always wished there were more ways to learn and use it, and teaching kids from a young age will help them understand the concepts better as adults. I think this combination of technology, music, and learning is so important and shows real promise for a new frontier of musical education and playing music in general, and could help to create a more musically literate generation of people.
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