Mobile Application

Guitarist Academy

The mission of Guitarist Academy is to make learning the guitar easier. Being in a competitive market, it’s important to stand out from the crowd. While working with the Guitarist Academy brand, it was important to create a site that was intuitive, engaging, and gamified.

Login Screens

The Mobile App is built using React Native and integrates seamlessly with WordPress via a custom API we built. This allows users to be able to log in using the same credentials they would use to access the web version of the platform.

Pathway

One of our favorite gamification techniques is to make it feel like the user is going on a ‘journey‘, where they start at point A, and work they way through the various levels, similar to the old school Mario games we grew up with as kids.

Courses

Practice Tracker

Learning to play the guitar, like learning any other skill takes practice. So we built a ‘Habit’ style tracker to help users develop the habit of practicing the guitar.

Tuner

You can be an amazing guitarist, but if your guitar is out of tune, you’ll sound dreadful.

We built a guided guitar tuner that uses the microphone of the phone to listen to the string the user is playing, and guide them through the process of

Chord Change Buddy

One of the main features of Guitarist Academy is their Chord Change Buddy. This is a virtual tool in the app that helps people to change chords quicker on the guitar.

We built a custom interface for this feature, and it’s one of the most popular parts of the Guitarist Academy app!

Students can navigate to the Chord Change Buddy, where they can select which chords they want to practice and in what order they should be played.

The app then gives them a series of exercises to complete and uses a progress tracker to show their progress and score them.

Profile

Normally the’ profile’ screens are boring, but we wanted to create something amazing.

So what we did was incorporate ‘Gamification’ that allows users to earn virtual coins by completing lessons, unlocking achievements, and more, and then use them to create their own virtual guitar collection and avatar.

Gamification

Guitarist Academy uses a variety of gamification features to keep their students engaged. For example, they give their students XP (experience points) and Coins for every lesson they complete, which they can then use to level up their avatar and unlock exclusive content.

This has been a great way to keep people engaged and coming back for more!