I remember as if it were yesterday my little smile watching my cousin mime a guitar solo with his bare hands. I've always found it funny, don't ask me why, to see someone play the strings of an invisible instrument.
Today, technology like PocketGuitar will force me to look closer: someone who appears to be playing pretend could simply be tuning a "real" guitar ready to play. A guitar stored in a plectrum!
Pocket Guitar, the guitar closed in a plectrum
La AeroBand has created a kind of virtual instrument. An instrument that offers all the advantages of learning and improving the way of playing a guitar without having to carry a guitar, but only the pick.
It's called PocketGuitar, but it's not a miniature guitar. It is not even the size of a guitar, or a ukelele. In fact, it doesn't even look like a guitar.
It is about the size of a pick.
lPocketGuitar syncs via Bluetooth with the AeroBand app on your phone, and players use it as a pick to play their favorite guitar chord. The right hand performs the movement and the left hand changes the rhythm according to the beat.
The invisible guitar with AI
Using artificial intelligence, the PocketGuitar replicates the feeling of actually playing a real guitar. The “pick” unit vibrates based on the intensity of your playing, matching the strength of your strum in the air to the actual sound you hear and the sensation you feel.
Young learners can play in three different modes: learn songs, play freehand or challenge yourself or friends with a game mode.
Not just didactic, however. Even professionals can use the PocketGuitar pick for practicing anywhere or for writing songs.
Less than 5 centimeters long, it is infinitely portable, you can put it in your pocket and always have a "guitar" at hand.
The app also connects to earbuds or headphones, so you can immerse yourself in the music while no one else realizes you're playing. Oh God, the impact of seeing a guy waving his hands in silence might not be the best.
