NAMM Launches Free iPhone App

Music trade association NAMM has launched a free mobile game application, Wanna Play Music?, designed to be a fun way to test music making skills and a tool to promote local music teachers.

Wanna Play Music? can be played on an iPhone or iPod touch. It tests players' abilities to rhythmically match colored balls that drop onto a color-coded DJ turntable.

NAMM hopes to use the game to encourage players to take the next step to playing a real instrument. The app includes a music store and music lessons' search tool that pulls from one of the largest databases of music instructors available on the Web.

Unfortunately, it looks like NAMM's app may need a little more work. One of the first comments on the app in the iTunes App Store says "I can't figure out how to play, what the point is or why I would care."

If you give NAMM's Wanna Play Music? app a try, leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Do you think this could be good way to promote music making?

Link:

• Wanna Play Music (App Store link)

James Lewin
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Michael Newman    Said...

With music education funding in our schools at an all time low, we need more tools to motivate and excite young people to learn how to play a musical instrument. So while NAMM gets the bugs out you have to admire them for trying.

Michael Newman www.michaelnewmanconsulting.com

01-Aug-09 07:05 PM

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