All your practising was for nothing

singemonkey

If this goes anywhere ? :

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028186.100-handhacking-lets-you-pluck-strings-like-a-musical-pro.html

Warren

I saw this yesterday ?

Was going to post it but after watching the video I'm entirely unconvinced that you'll be shredding like Petrucci in a month...

Doubt that a machine like that (with the electrodes on the forearm) develops any of the nuanced movements required for playing a stringed instrument. Might help a complete and utter beginner...dunno.

Squonk

Might help me with my nerves when playing. have said in a previous topic, how I seem to lose most of my fine motor coordination because of nerves ?

Warren

Squonk wrote Might help me with my nerves when playing. have said in a previous topic, how I seem to lose most of my fine motor coordination because of nerves ?

Nerves murdered me at my TJs set, especially on the opening instrumental which sounded nothing like it did 2 hours earlier ?

UncleGoatLips

You'd still be useless without the machine though.

You won't really learn, the machine is pre-programmed to move your hand in specific ways, take the machine away and you won't be able to replicate the moves. I think you really need to understand what you play before you play it. Putting your fingers in the right places just isn't enough.

Also guitars (and hands) come in many different sizes, the necks, the string guages etc. Just too many variables to make this viable. That being said, i'm still curious to see if all these problems could hypothetically be solved if this could have any benefit. Maybe loading a guitar pro file into the machine, you also need another machine to shift your position bla blah.

FruitarGeek

I thought it was interesting until right in the end when the lady said "if your willing to have your hand possessed" Ha ha ha

Jack-Flash-Jr

FruitarGeek wrote I thought it was interesting until right in the end when the lady said "if your willing to have your hand possessed" Ha ha ha

It's the modern crossroads!

UncleGoatLips

Why stop there? "Possess" the entire body, or hundreds of them connected to one human, then you don't have to train them for synchronized dancing like the Beijing olympics, you just have one person do it and the rest will mimic the moves. ?

Jack-Flash-Jr

UncleGoatLips wrote Why stop there? "Possess" the entire body, or hundreds of them connected to one human, then you don't have to train them for synchronized dancing like the Beijing olympics, you just have one person do it and the rest will mimic the moves. ?

You've just described a backing track. Why stop at bass, drums and keys on the laptop when you can throw guitars and vox on there too? Oh wait, that's a dj. ?

UncleGoatLips

awesome, you just load a midi file and the band'll play it! Random guys from the audience come on stage and jam some Dream Theater!

Highway-Chile

She could come up with a machine that puts Viagra out of business.......a quick hookup and it works right away, no blue vision, no headache, no stuffy nose, runs on batteries, is expandable so your partner can connect her own module for a more shared experience, therapeutic effect ends when product is removed........and does not leave one walking bent over for 4 hours with a painful swelling. It could even have a built in mp3 player with some Barry White, Smoky Robinson and Sade preloaded and a little compartment that opens revealing some erotic scented body oils, as soon as you power it up.

Can you imagine how gnarly it must feel having an external trigger cause those finger muscles to move? My first impulse would be to smash the controller with my free hand. LOL!

And what about the co-ordination with the right hand? You got your brain telling the right when to move, it wants to tell the left, but that is controlled by the doohicky!

I can see this having rehabilitative uses.........not learning an instrument.