My bass guitar teacher, yousician!
Tbh, I was meaning to cancel after 7day trial but I forgot to cancel and I was charged $179 for a year. But, Im really enjoying the songs (e.g. Dream on and Zombie) and love the game like system which make the sesh more fun and engaging. Love how it has a tuner feature, too! Also, I wouldve had to pay $60ph for an actual guitar lesson so I think it’s not that expensive. What’s more, I can try the piano, ukulele and singing as well! My friend covered his ears when I was trying singing practices so I think I will stick to the bass guitar only for now. Keep it up! Xx
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Response from developer
We're delighted to hear you're enjoying your sessions and finding value in the songs and features! It's great that the app brings fun to your learning experience. Your feedback is truly appreciated!
To much money..
I recently began to try and learn the guitar and I looked at this app and thought great! Finally a free app (I thought this as on apple phones at the top it says in app purchases or how much the app costs and this said no such thing) after about an hour of learning that I thoroughly enjoyed, I wasn’t able to take anymore lessons until I signed up to the premium feature which meant a 7 day free trial and after that a largely overpriced fee per month that more than doubled after a year it’s such a shame I found something I liked and now supposedly need to pay a stupid amount if money for it then I looked on the reviews and found plenty other reviews like the one I am making and the feedback was “thanks for this comment keep rocking!” Or some other weird ai generated stuff that clearly shows how much this company cares about there costumers I strongly urge all to not download unless u have a big sum of money to spare.
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Response from developer
Thanks for your review. It would be great to be able to offer a free app for users. However, to keep improving the app and to add more content for you, paid memberships are needed. Please email us at help@yousician.com so that our team can help you check out the premium content in the app.
Need yousican premium to do anything
I was super excited to use this app and it was great for the first 2 lessons but after that I couldn’t access anything without paying. I don’t have the funds to pay for this which is why I’m no taking in person lessons. Great app if you can pay but if not you can’t do much://
Response from developer
To get the full Yousician experience, it is recommended to start a free trial. You can cancel it any time before the trial expires if you decide that the app is not a good tool for you. If you have any further questions, feel free to reach out to us by emailing help@yousician.com
Average
I thought this app was pretty good for guitar and for learning basics on bass it’s been okay. But there are many issues. First of all there’s literally NOTHING new added… Hallelujah has been on “recently added” since December and it’s now May. How you can justify the monthly fee for full access when there’s been zero song upgrades for 6 months is beyond me. Secondly, the timing! It’s really confusing when you know your timing is right and this app is wrong. It doesn’t line up with the original bass line (or the drums). The app doesn’t always recognise the notes, often this is the E string (particularly when open) when it can’t hear the dull tone. The only good thing is the Metallica bits which have obviously been developed with Metallica. Overall it’s ok to get you started but there’s not much song choice from recording artists, mostly it’s tracks from Yousician themselves.
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Response from developer
Apologies for the troubles you're having with note recognition. Would you mind reaching out to us via contact.yousician.com? Please provide more info on the setup you're using in your request and our support team will answer you shortly! Thanks!
Beginners opinion
Highly recommend. The app is awesome I’m only level one and have already learnt all of the basics in terms of chords Melodie’s rifts bars etc they have a great catalogue of songs to learn as well. There’s just so many great features, I would highly recommend, especially for beginners.!
Response from developer
That is awesome! We’re super glad to read it. Jam on!
Stupid app
I can just play 4 songs and it cost too much just for that
Don’t download this dump app😤
Don’t download this dump app😤
Response from developer
We understand the concerns raised and appreciate you bringing them up. We'll be sure to keep your review in mind.
Definitely Needs Updates
Fairly occasionally the app won’t recognize that the correct note was played, and might even say that you hit a string you didn’t touch. That was really rough when I didn’t know how any of it was supposed to sound, but could see that I was on the right string, with my finger on the right fret. It’s really discouraging when it happens in the beginning, and gets very frustrating once you’ve gotten better at playing the guitar, and know you did it right.
A feature that feels necessary after a year of using the app is the option to either turn off the color coding for what fingers goes where, or have the option to change the finger positioning on the tabs. Most of the time the color coding is pretty useful, but every once in a while it makes the song a lot harder to play than it really has to be. Typically I can ignore the color coding when I don’t agree with it, but it gets more difficult when the tempo for the song gets quicker, and I’m noticing the colors fly by that’s telling me that my pointer finger should be where my middle finger already is, even though doing so is more disorienting than helpful.
I’ve heard that there’s some place to request for Yousician to try to add certain songs, but it would be a lot better if there was a tab for suggestions on the actual app.
A feature that feels necessary after a year of using the app is the option to either turn off the color coding for what fingers goes where, or have the option to change the finger positioning on the tabs. Most of the time the color coding is pretty useful, but every once in a while it makes the song a lot harder to play than it really has to be. Typically I can ignore the color coding when I don’t agree with it, but it gets more difficult when the tempo for the song gets quicker, and I’m noticing the colors fly by that’s telling me that my pointer finger should be where my middle finger already is, even though doing so is more disorienting than helpful.
I’ve heard that there’s some place to request for Yousician to try to add certain songs, but it would be a lot better if there was a tab for suggestions on the actual app.
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Response from developer
Apologies for the troubles you're having with note recognition. Would you mind reaching out to us via contact.yousician.com? Please provide more info on the setup you're using in your request and our support team will answer you shortly! Thanks!
Good for a semi-beginner for Learning Music Theory
I started learning guitar about 6 months ago. Rocksmith 2014 caught my eye on steam so I got a cheap beginner guitar kit and started learning.
I’ve been playing on and off with Rocksmith 2014 and online videos but I’ve since hit a wall. Rocksmith has tutorial videos but they’re not very in depth and skim over some of the technique topics.
Starting from scratch with yousician has allowed me to find (and mostly fix) some bad habits. Also some of the songs are really fun to learn to play.
The bass and piano courses seem pretty good too but I haven’t really gone too far with those yet.
I’ll be continuing with yousician+ after the trial ends.
I’ve been playing on and off with Rocksmith 2014 and online videos but I’ve since hit a wall. Rocksmith has tutorial videos but they’re not very in depth and skim over some of the technique topics.
Starting from scratch with yousician has allowed me to find (and mostly fix) some bad habits. Also some of the songs are really fun to learn to play.
The bass and piano courses seem pretty good too but I haven’t really gone too far with those yet.
I’ll be continuing with yousician+ after the trial ends.
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Response from developer
Woah! We’re very happy to read about your experience with the app. Thanks for sharing and keep on jamming!
Unable to cancel. Aka robbery
I’ve been trying to cancel this subscription for the last 3 years, I signed up through my computer probably 5 years ago. And now for 4 years they’ve been taking money off my account every December, I have two cancelation confirmations from 2020 and 2021. Yet they still take my money, $223 NZD. I’m a student I can’t afford to pay this, this is a disgrace. I’ve tried to see if I could call them however their does not seem to be a way too. I stopped playing guitar 5 years ago yet they’ve taken close too 1,000 dollars from me and I haven’t even used their app.
Please give it back.
Thank you,
Michael.
Please give it back.
Thank you,
Michael.
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Response from developer
We are sorry to hear about the problem with cancellation. Could you please contact us via contact.yousician.com, so that we could investigate the issue and help you figure out what's wrong? Thank you!
New does not equal improved
The new lessons are from Metallica. I am not a fan. If they had continued the 10, 20, 30 minute guided lesson - still available on the piano app. There is still a lot of material for me to work from on the "learn" tab - in "missions" and "workouts." I liked the guided lesson because it helped me to keep up practice on things I already learned and it fit the time I had to give it. I am an adult re-learner of guitar and I started using Yousician about three years ago with the free version and signed up for the full version a year and a half ago. I created an Excel chart to keep track of "workouts: skill builders." This is helpful because Yousician has introduced me to chords and skills I didn't know existed. My goal is to be able to join my church worship band so I wish you had some contemporary Christian music for me to work on.
I have used the singing app and would give it three stars because there are very few pieces for the first soprano range AND, especially AND, there is no option for standard notation!!!!
I like to sing old Broadway music - My Fair Lady; Carousel; The King and I, Phantom of the Opera (Christine's and Carlotta's parts}, etc.
I have used the singing app and would give it three stars because there are very few pieces for the first soprano range AND, especially AND, there is no option for standard notation!!!!
I like to sing old Broadway music - My Fair Lady; Carousel; The King and I, Phantom of the Opera (Christine's and Carlotta's parts}, etc.
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