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NAMM Launches Free iPhone App

But It May Need A Bit More Work 22-Jul-09
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?

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James Lewin
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1 Comments...  Post a comment    original story
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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