{"id":50695,"date":"2012-05-22T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T09:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=50695"},"modified":"2012-05-22T13:03:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:03:17","slug":"iphone-powered-guitar-makes-learning-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/50695-iphone-powered-guitar-makes-learning-easy.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone-powered guitar makes learning easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A project known as the gTar is creating a buzz surrounding its implementation of traditional musical learning with the use of <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple\u2019s<\/a> iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Users embed an iPhone into the guitar\u2019s dock, and with the help of an accompanying app, the neck of the guitar will light up with interactive LED\u2019s along the fretboard.<\/p>\n<p>The illuminated lights represent the sequence of notes required to play a particular song of choice, and the app features three different difficulty levels to suit the user\u2019s knowledge and skill.<\/p>\n<p>The app also features a wide range of existing tracks, allowing players to select songs that they are more familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>The instrument aims to simplify the steep learning curve of learning guitar, and is using a <a title=\"gTar Kickstarer page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/incident\/gtar-the-first-guitar-that-anybody-can-play\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter page<\/a> to promote the project.\u00a0 The retail price for the guitar is $450 (R3,714.50*).<\/p>\n<h5>*Exchange rates calculated at time of article.<\/h5>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"TechCrunch\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/05\/21\/incident-gtar-iphone-teaching-guitar\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Kickstarter project integrates musical learning and technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":50699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[11863,11867,11865,10774],"class_list":["post-50695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-gtar","tag-gtar-app","tag-iphone-guitar","tag-kickstarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}