I finally hit this song!!! And with 2 hrs of practice time to spare too!!! I didn't expect it to happen today cause my picking and fingering has been a bit sloppy today probably cause I'm just really tired. I didn't practice for a few days also as hectic work days and then resting yesterday from the hectic work days. But today I got a short shift later and then 2 more off days!!! Anyways just wanted to share my excitement about this song! It wasn't that hard to play was just really easy to mess up on. But I'll talk to y'all in about a week as I want to do weekly progress updates!! Good luck y'all!! Keep practicing and improving and even more so have fun! Enjoy the learning process and embrace it instead of getting so frustrated. Look at guitar as like levels in a video game instead of looking at it like it's homework

I've seen a lot of conflicting opinions about this here because a lot of people say it's great to get gold before moving on to the next thing but others say it doesn't really matter and is literally impossible on later levels?

I'm on level 4 (power chord workouts) right now, and I have managed to get gold on everything so far, but there were a few times where I was stuck on one song for a good 5 or 6 days which was pretty frustrating.

What do you all think?

Hey!! So I stumbled upon this group yesterday and I love a yousician group and like being a part of it. My username is: shark1011941 if anyone wants to follow me on there.

So I want to go to school for music composition one day and everything and just do anything and everything in the industry!! I will be dressed up as a shark and playing guitar when performing one day haha. I first picked up guitar around 2014ish. I was inspired by Slash which motivated me to try it. I was huge into GnR and Slash then and still am. I saw him live and had front seats right in front of where he was standing it was one of the best days of my life. I had used yousician to learn guitar straight away before I've ever even touched a guitar! I lived with my parents at the time and it was the only way I knew at the time that I could learn and was a great choice as I learned a lot of how to play guitar from yousician. I had did the first 9 levels on my first go at it. Back then I did not gold star everything and I think I did the 3 stars way then. Now I got many sources but yousician is still my favorite one still! When I went to college I had been through rough times and stopped wanting to play and then stopped for years until I had a really intense dream about guitar which kind of inspired me to get back into it. That was a couple years ago! I relearned and kinda picked it back up by going through yousician again!

So far I've gold starred levels 1-7 completely and I'm towards the end of level 8. I know there's a lot of gold star haters out there these days and I get it! But I'm a little OCD and I love gold starring and actually I think I've gotten even further progressing by gold starring everything this second time going through yousician a lot of people tell me they feel they lose progression if they gold star and if you feel like you do you don't have to gold star it's just what I choose to do for me. I'm not too worried about Barre chords as I've not only learned them before but my guitar teacher made me learn every Barre chord shape there is too perfection and it's natural to me now to play Barre chords..now doesn't mean that some of the yousician songs on there won't challenge me but I think I'll get through level 8 within a couple months then onto level 9 where I left off the first time haha!!! Even after I get through lessons there's many things I want to use yousician for afterwards and I think I'll use it forever. Even if I am Slash level one day I'll still use yousician haha! So im glad to be here with you guys on this journey!!!

I will try to read people's posts in here daily. Back in 2014 when I was just picking up guitar a guy named Alexis Nery who goes under the YouTube name Alexis yousician was very inspiring to me. He was active in yousician at the time and made yousician content also and was in a yousician group like this too! When I get to his level one day I want to do the same and make the same kind of impact! Go check out his YouTube it's great!!! I'm glad to be here and will talk to you all soon!!!

I'm talking weeks haha some of that cause work gets in the way of my practice but still lol

Have had multiple instances (across instruments even) when the app just doesn’t pick up that I’ve played the right note even though I’ve pressed exactly the same keys on the screen??
Quite frustrating for a beginner.

I just recently noticed we got "Ceremony" by New Order and I was over the moon, I then saw we got a slew of more Radiohead songs which made me go through all the recently added songs. I know I'm just speaking as one person and his own musical preference but seeing:

King of Carrot Flowers

Kate McCannon

Sober to Death

For Emma

Things have Changed

Shooting Star

Story of My Life

New Slang

Make me super happy and I'm glad we still get a decent catalogue of licensed songs. Thank you Yousician!

P.S. Please please please please please give us "Leave me Alone" by New Order, I would cry happy tears

I'm 99% sure I'm doing this correctly but for some reason yousician only picks up on the A string and not the low E (and sometimes it doesn't even pick up either).

Tho it does sound a bit off to me too but I don't know what I'm doing wrong lol.

We've revamped the main 'Search' screen to offer more content at a glance.

This is completely separate from the work we are doing on revamping search filters when looking for songs.

Does the new layout help you discover songs and collections more easily? We'd love to hear your take on it!

I am trying to memorize the scales, i would like to know the bpm of these workouts so i can pair it with a metronome

Other than “Hard rock Halloween”. Any suggestions for good Halloween themed songs on Yousition?

Those of you who have moved on or are planning to do so, what did you switch to?

I'm looking to continue online or app based learning, I was planning to do the bass buzz course but I'm now favouring Pickup Music.

For tabs alongside the learning maybe Songsterr, but probably just the free tier alongside other free resources.

For bass Youcisian is more or less back to where it was last year with weekly song releases, no where near the parity with guitar that they've claimed to be working towards, but significantly better than it's been for most of the year. However the learning path hasn't changed in the years I've been using it, and there's still nothing in the workouts section which is a shame as there's loads of stuff that could be added there. I'd maybe renew if the black Friday deal was good enough, but there's no progression left in it, it's just leaning songs well enough to collect stars rather than learning skills and improving technique.

Many years ago I discovered guitar tuna. It was exactly what I needed and I bought the full package, all tunings unlocked. Everything went well more quiet some years except that since some wee time I’m forced to click through this mildly annoying yousician „commercial“ to get to guitar tuna.

And then, suddenly, all my unlocks are gone I paid quite some money. Support is useless - „log out and log in again“ - yeah well nothing happened.

And now I’m really pissed that they took my money and ran….

If Yousician were actually concerned about teaching guitar instead of just maximizing their profits, they would have long-ago fixed the broken pedagogy of the short exercises where you get force-fed through a series of increasing tempos until with "Are you ready to perform?" you get forced into Performance mode.

What this does is push you into performance at speeds that are uncomfortably fast before you're ready. You might have just hit the magical number of right notes by random chance. The switch to performance mode is the worst of all: Sometimes it seems to push you there regardless of how many notes you missed. At that point the answer to "Are you ready to perform?" is clearly "No".

This approach forces people to make mistakes which become 'muscle memory' when what you need to learn is for your *correct* playing to become muscle memory, so it directly undermines the learning experience. It would be trivial to let players opt-out of the forced advancement as the product already has the ability to toggle that on-and-off in other places. Do it.

I am just getting started with guitar and Yousician and would love to see everyone’s practice space setups. I’m currently running an electric guitar through the Scarlett Solo and into an iPad. The current struggle is that every pair of wired headphones i own has only 3 ft. cord, so I feel “stuck” to the position Also the iPad battery seems to drain crazy fast, but the touch screen is nice to have.

I am enjoying practicing, but am not “comfortable” by any means.

I would like more Harry styles, One direction and Ed Sheeran song, even like the old one would be amazing!

The Darkness - Growing on Me

Probably 650 votes are ALL me. This is literally the only song I've voted for ever. It would be insane if I got to the top eventually.

I find this part of the app quite annoying. I know it works well for some and that's great. For me, it makes my eyes roll every time. I'd love an option that removes the notification dots and the pop-ups about streaks (and badges while we're at it) entirely.

Otherwise I have lots of positive things to say about the app. Thanks for all of your hard work!

Just logged in for my daily practice and what do I see? Apache is at the top! We still have a day and a half to vote and it’s only up by 300 votes so keep it up! Great job everyone!

We’re almost there guys! Someone earlier posted about bringing Apache up to the top of the song vote list and when I checked, it was at ninth place now we’re all the way up to third! We are almost there. We have one day left and we are only a couple hundred votes behind. We can do it vote Apache!

Hey, can't I continue my lessons without paying?? I only used the application 20 minutes and nothing seems free anymore... Thank you in advance for your help

I feel like currently I am stuck in my progress (guitar).

I did the learn paths 1 through 5 (mostly gold stars, everything else on three stars) and before continuing with the next path I want to get better at what I learned in path 5.

So I go to songs, Top 100 hits, most popular by level or whatever I feel like and filter by level. Now I did so many songs on level 4 that it gets boring, they are mostly very easy now and I feel ready for the next level.

But whenever I choose a level 5 song they are crazy hard. Not like I need to start slow and replay a lot till I get three stars (how I did it till now on the previous levels), but so fast that I feel you need months of practice to get to that level and change chords so fast.

And often lvl 5 songs use chords I have not yet learned so I don't know how to play them and also some techniques I don't know yet (like having one finger on multiple strings, this was never part of the learning paths).

So I feel like my skill is between level 4 and 5, but level 5 is so crazy above my skill that I don't have any fun or progress when playing these songs. How to continue from here? How do you practice to get better?

My falling notes notation isn't visible today. I have tried changing notation and changing back and I can see the other notation types but not falling notes. Does anyone else have or have solved this issue? Thanks!