As promised in my last post, this week I have been working on using the Yousition app. I mainly explored the tablature (tab) section, and I thought it explained everything very well. As someone with musical experience who can’t read tab, I thought they explained it well. It is done through video and demonstrated and paced well. They use the sound of the strings to reinforce the learning of the string numbers in the TAB staff, which I think is a great way to do it because it helps develop aural skills from the beginning of the learning experience. They had practice and the app uses the microphone of the device (if you give it permission to do so) to give feedback and assess your playing. The app then has a song to play along to and it visually shows the beats on the TAB staff with a line that bounces on the staff when you need to play, which is really quite amusing to watch. I will attach a video of a guitar lesson, which is laid out the same way.
I looked briefly at the chord course as well, and found that it was also laid out well, and explained with audio examples each note in the chord in TAB and then its notation on a chord chart, so learners can understand how it is built and how to read it. I think this app is very well laid out for beginners!