ONE-PERSON BAND
It is a new way to produce music, without boring practicing you can become a one-person band.
14 weeks project
It is a new way to produce music:
-No boring practicing
-Fully get involved in producing
-One person can be one band
Who is this for?
who love listening to music
in their spare time
who would like to sing a lot
in their spare time.
who always share concert or
song in social media.
Music enthusiasts
– Formal musical knowledge
– Interested in music
– Have the greatest music idea
– Tired about the practicing
– Share with their friends
Interview
– parent forces him to learn music theory and piano.
– he realized that this was not what he wanted.
– still interested in music and producing songs.
Howie Wong
College student
22
Why they want it?
Right now, if they want to make a song but they don’t know how to play any instruments, they need to:
Find a session musician
Send a humming and communicate
Spend over 100$
Wait over a week
Control the making process by your own
Challenges of becoming a one person band
When they learn guitar:
– Must use fingertips and it really hurt!
– the right-hand movement hurt nails
When they learn the piano:
- Need to study classical music.
- Learn how to read sheet music.
- Learning music theory
When they use software:
- Plain and boring
- Cannot understand the methods
- No actual feeling of playing
Prototype process
Ideations
Functions development
Form development
How to use One-person band?
How to turn it on?
Long press the middle part
Sidelight will light up
Take out the microphone
Record the humming
Put the microphone back in
Bluetooth connection
Light effect for chords
How does APP work?
Build a new file
Click
Choose piano
Light effect on the product
Recommend chords for piano
Light effect for chords
Swapping to change the octave
Choose guitar
The frets controlled by the same keyboard with the piano key
Recommend chords for guitar
Choose drum set
