Poputar: A Smart Guitar with Free App for Everyone
1st smart guitar with immersive learning experience. Learn to play guitar like a pro in 10 days.
BEIJING SHIGAN TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
Focusing on game-based music self-learning, SHIGAN INC aims to make music learning fun and efficient through technology and gamification. The company raised millions of money from ZhenFund leaded by Xu Xiaoping during the angel round in 2015.
“Poputar smart guitar” is the first smart instrument of SHIGAN INC. And it can instruct users to press the strings at the left portion through LED light and pluck the strings at the right portion through the guidance of a game-based APP, thus turning the boring music learning into a vivid interactions between human and guitar to help a beginner to master pop music accompaniment through a game similar to the real version of “Guitar Hero” .
Company Name: BEIJING SHIGAN TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
Company Slogan: Leading the trend, Insisting the love, Fulfilling the desire
CEO: Zhang Bohan
Establishing Time:：2015.4 .1
Research Area: Game-based music self-learning; Smart instruments
Product Mode: “A smart hardware motivated by design” plus “A music teaching system based on games ”
Company Profiles
When studying abroad, CEO Zhang Bohan realized the potential of smart instruments and determinedly dropped out of college to set up SHIGAN INC , aiming at redefining music learning method and developing a closer relationship between human and music through cool technological products.
“Guitar has unforgettable charms. A youth without guitar is a pity! Many people have the desire to learn to play the guitar, but 90% of them fail to fulfill the desire and can only regret the unrealized love. We hope to turn the music-learning process into game experiences similar to ‘Guitar Hero’ through a cool technological hardware, with which people can fulfill the desire to play the guitar like falling head over heels with a lover.”
In the following year, great programmers, talented designers and intelligent musicians gradually join the team, making the dream of “A beginner can play the guitar within 5 minutes and perform songs on stage within one hour”come true.
Company Product---- Poputar Smart Guitar
“Poputar” is the abbreviation of “The Most Popular Guitar”, aiming at creating the most popular smart guitar and making people who are interested in guitar learn with joy.
Different from traditional guitars, there are 120 glittering LED lights on the fingerboard of Poputar Smart Guitar. Poputar Smart Guitar visualizes playing the guitar through the connection between blue tooth and the game in the APP, helping the beginners quickly master the fingering. In the meanwhile, through the connection between Poputar Smart Guitar and an APP featured with popular songs, Poputar Smart Guitar turns the music-learning process into game experiences similar to “Guitar Hero” or “Rhythm Master”, making learning easy and efficient.
A considerate charging rack is attached to the Poputar Smart Guitar. When the guitar is placed on the rack, the rack can charge the guitar automatically; otherwise, the rack turns into a mobile
phone holder or a music stand, making playing guitar nice and convenient.
The game-based teaching system consists of four parts:
·Easy music theories: The game is divided into three phases----”basic”, ”intermediate” and ”advanced”. Combined with teaching videos and LED lights on the fingerboard, the game can teach users to play and sing popular songs quickly. In the “basic” phase, the game teaches beginners to sing while playing the guitar through simplified music theories, chords and playing methods. In the “intermediate” phase, the game teaches users chords of C major and G major, as well as all kinds of rhythmic patterns. After learning in this phase, users can manage to play original accompaniment. In the “advanced” phase, users can have access to more complicated playing skills, as well as a music platform with music lovers all over the world.
·Fantastic music games: Concentrated on pop music, the APP not only rearranges classic pop songs from Jay Chou, JJ Lin, Leehom Wang, Eason Chan and so on, but also embodies the newest and the most prevalent songs. The songbook of the APP covers all kinds of songs from music variety shows, new generation idols and game & animation. Through Poputar, users can not only expertly play the guitar, but also revive the classic pop music accompanying our youth.
·Accurate sound recognition:There are two modes in the APP----”Following Mode” and “Playing Mode”. The accurate sound recognition can provide timely feedback as to whether the user has played it right or not. In “Following Mode”, when a user makes mistakes, the app is the most patient “teacher”and will wait for him/her until he/she plays it right. In ”Playing Mode”, the APP will grade after continuous playing of the whole song, and only when users pass a certain grade can they unlock the next level. The game includes 80% of the guitar skills, as a result, the users can manage to play the guitar after passing all the games.
·Complete guitar tools: The APP has functions like “Lightening Mode”, ”Dazzling Mode” and ”Chord Dictionary”. In “Lightening Mode”, users can light up any of the LED lights on the fingerboard of Poputar Smart Guitar to form various chords and patterns; In “Dazzling Mode”, the dynamics and shape of the LED lights will change in accordance with the emotion of the users, just like the shining stars following the emotions of the users; The “Chord Dictionary” can light up all kind of chords in all kinds of keys on the fingerboard, thus instructing users to press the strings at the left portion quickly. At the same time, the APP also covers tools such as tuner, metronome and so on, making learning more convenient.
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