E-Guitar Sonar Edition

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e-guitar Sonar Edition proposes to learn guitar pieces easily by imitating the teacher playing. You can select multiple angles of viewing and slow down the actual performance. Animated score and tablature are provided for those who can already read them.

e-guitar Sonar Edition aims at gathering feedback from users about this new experimental guitar learning tool based on an interactive DVD.

You can download for FREE virtual DVDs that show in an interactive way how to play a guitar piece. We need feedback from users to enhance our work, so do not hesitate to share your opinion.

Free! Guaranteed with no virus nor spyware
French & English subtitles
Accessible: difficulty ranging from beginner level to early intermediate
High quality full screen video
Multi-angles video
Pre-rendered instant slow motion feature on every angle
Contextualized advices from the teachers attached to difficult parts
Preset and custom loop feature to repeat a section to practice
Animated score and tablature
Mix selection for tunes with backing tracks
Works on almost all DVD players and DVD-enabled videogames consoles and computers

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The system is DVD based. You can use it on any DVD player, DVD supported video game console or a PC/Mac computer (with a DVD drive, of course).

	Download	Score	Preview
Take My Guitar (520.2MB)
Silent Night (379.5MB)
Nounoute (458.4MB)
La Bourbonnaise (556.1MB)
Universal Binaural (1.22GB)
Greensleeves (563.3MB)
Gooyave (560.2MB)
Since you went away (809.2MB)

Click here to learn how to start the virtual DVD. Read below the description of these tunes

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Quang	Patrick	David	Samuel

Last name: HO Guitar: folk Activity: economy researcher and musician Trivia: has written many scientific books upon Reunion Island Economy. Has played at the Olympia (Paris).	Last name: SIDA Guitar: classical Activity: guitar teacher at the Conservatoire National de Région of Reunion Island Trivia: part of the Celimène duet with David which has released two CDs.	Last name: HOARAU Guitar: classical Activity: guitar teacher at the Conservatoire National de Région of Reunion Island Trivia: part of the Celimène duet with Patrick which has released two CDs.	Last name: FONTAINE Guitar: electric, bass & folk Activity: guitar teacher at the Académie Musicale of Reunion Island Trivia: work as an arranger too. Part of the team who has written and played the "Un siècle de musique réunionnaise" book, which is an anthology of the music from Reunion Island.

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Eight pieces have been released under The e-guitar Sonar Edition, ranging from beginner level to early intermediate. They are all original composition or arrangement of traditional tunes.

Tune	Style	Teacher	Description
Take my guitar	Acoustic guitar + vocals	Quang	Beginner song based upon two chords (G and D7). The guitar is used to accompany a sung melody.
Silent Night	Classical	David	A classic Christmas carol adapted for beginners.
Nounoute	Classical	David	It is an adaptation from a folkloric song from Reunion Island.
La Bourbonnaise	Classical	Patrick	Another traditional song from Reunion Island arranged for beginners.
Universal Binaural	Acoustic and bass	Samuel	A reggae tune especially created for Sonar Edition. Allows to learn various techniquesfor folk guitar and/or Bass guitar.
Greensleeves	Classical	Patrick	One of the most famous traditional british tune.
Gooyave	Electric	Samuel	An original creation to discover many techniques from the electric guitar.
Since you went away	Acoustic guitar + vocals	Quang	A composition to learn the finger picking technique.

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Q: Who are you?
A: We are researchers at the University of Reunion. We work in the field of Knowledge Management and more particularly its transmission. Music in general is the example of knowledge we have chosen to focus on, firstly because we like it (we are guitar fans), then because this is a very popular activity that require both intellectual and 'physical' skills. The best way to learn music for ages is the private lesson with a teacher. Our thesis is to start from there and to reproduce communication scheme used in this process. Thus, we use multimedia and interactivity, to "store" this comprehensive knowledge out of the brain. From our point of view, written music is not enough to learn how to play a musical piece. The process used in e-guitar can be reused for other arts: other instruments of course, dance, sports, painting and even cooking!

Q: Uuh... Reunion Island? Where is it?
A: it is located in the Indian Ocean, between Madagascar and Mauritius. Let my friend Google show you.

Q: What is a virtual DVD?
A: It is a big file to download that represents a DVD Video disc once it is written to a blank media (DVD+/-R-RW). We call it virtual because we do not provide the traditional plastic support. The advantage is that it can be accessed from everywhere is the world, without any shipping.

Q: How can I use a virtual DVD?
A: Everything is explained in a dedicated part of this site. Just access it from the menu above this page. To sum-up, there are two ways of accessing the content:

you can burn the file to a blank DVDR or DVDRW (prefered) media. The disc can then be used on almost any DVD player or DVD-enabled videogame console. Of course, it can be used on a computer.
you can use it directly from your hard drive (a bit more complicated on a PC running Windows)

Q: How much does it costs?
A: Nothing. The e-guitar Sonar Edition is free of charge. In return, we would very much appreciate feedback on the system, either by commenting our videos on Youtube for example, or just by writing us a mail.

Q: What is your interest in this operation?
A: In the research we are doing, we need feedback from users to validate or not our hypothesis. Moreover, as it is rather difficult for us to gather funds or resources in general, so we are trying to communicate on our project to attract sponsors. The Sonar Edition has thus two goals:

sollicitate a worlwide community to find out its opinion toward our system.
communicate on our work, in the hope to find financial partners that could support our research and maybe launch a product line.

Q: How can I help?
A: There are multiple ways of helping us, according to what you are willing to do:

First of all, the most useful action is to try the DVD and give us feedback! Refer to the following questions to see how to do that.
If you are a teacher, you may want to propose new tunes. Maybe, you would record them in the e-guitar way, but to do that, you will have to book a plane for Reunion Island...
If you have contacts, you can introduce us to world leading businessmen/artists/famous people who could fund the next part of the project. For instance: Steve J., Bill G., Bruce W., Oprah W., Chuck N., Jack B., Mickey M., Wolfgang Amadeus M., etc.

Q: How can I send feedback?
A: There are multiple ways of sending feedback:

Fill-in the short questionnaire accessible from here: access to survey
Send us an Email:
Leave comments on our Youtube or Dailymotion videos
Leave comments on our Blog (soon)

Q: What kind of feedback are you interested in?
A: Everything! Here are topics:

Who are you? We do not mean your name, but things such as in what part of the world you live, how old are you, what are your hobbies, what kind of music do you listen, what pieces would you like to play, are you a computer geek, do you have a broadband Internet access...
How did you find our system? Was is easy to use? Did you find bugs? Is the design pleasant? Was the download worth? Was it too long?
Most important question: did you manage to learn the piece? Was it more efficient than using traditional means (score/tablature, non-interactive video, CDs, ...)?

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If you want to contact us, send an email:

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