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February 19, 2013 07:47 pm GMT
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Quincy Jones Startup Gamifies Your Piano Lessons
Imagine a way to learn piano that combines the enjoyability of Guitar Hero with the effectiveness of Rosetta Stone. That's the basic concept of Playground Sessions, a software product that officially launched Monday.
Playground Sessions has been in development for more than three years now. The project's co-founder and CEO Chris Vance says he got the idea by combining popular phenomena from 2009, including not only Guitar Hero and Rosetta Stone, but also American Idol and Khan Academy.
"We had this crazy idea: Could we do guitar hero with real instruments?" Vance tells Mashable. "Everyone still harbors that desire to be a rockstar; it's a universal truth that's never going to go away."…
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