Guide Otamatone pour débutants, livre en anglais

Dieses Buch ist Mist. Es ist kein Lehrbuch und voller Allgemeinplätze.

Warning - If you want to play the otamatone, this book is not for you. When I bought this book I had high hopes - it seemed like it was going to be great, and not many books are available on the subject, so it seemed it was going to be a good find. It was not a good find. "How To Play The Otamatone For Beginners" by Arnold Hale may just be one of the most ridiculously ineffective books on the market anywhere. I first had my doubts when reading the introduction. The very first sentence was " Do you have the desire to create unique, whimsical, and utterly enchanting music?" It follows it up with a whole slew of "It's not just x, it's y" sentences, which for those of you who don't know, that's one of the key ways to tell something is AI generated. Needless to say, the book has many of them, leading me to believe that this book's author is not Arnold Hale, but a language model. I feel scammed out of my money for this alone, but oh ho ho BOY, the worst is yet to come. Would you believe it if I told you that in a SIXTY NINE PAGE BOOK about PLAYING THE OTAMATONE, that there is NO USEFUL INFORMATION ON HOW TO PLAY THE OTAMATONE?!? It does not teach you how to play any of the notes, with the extent of its knowledge being a clearly AI formatted list, and I quote exactly, saying, "A: The starting point of the musical alphabet. It's the note that sets the stage for the entire musical alphabet. B: The next note in the alphabet. It follows A and precedes C. C: A significant musical note, often serving as a reference point for scales. It's immediately followed by D. D: The fourth note in the sequence. E: The fifth note and follows D. F: A step higher than E. G: The final note in the musical alphabet, ending the sequence." THAT'S ALL IT SAYS. I am livid at this book. It does not say anything more about notes. This book is AI slop at its worst. It is simply garbage. It has no information whatsoever on actually PLAYING THE OTAMATONE. There's a section on beginner songs to play, and essentially it says "Play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." It doesn't say how, it just describes it as a "childhood favorite, usually one of the first songs learned as kids and a great starting point for novice Otamatone players." This book does not tell you how to play anything. This is an AI scam. Please, do not buy it, you will be utterly disappointed. Lire la suite

Otamatone has always sparked my curiosity. At first, I thought it was a toy for children, but with this book, I have learned that it is a complex musical instrument with a very distinctive sound. I encourage anyone who loves music to explore this instrument with the help of this book, which guides you step by step.

Not good, no actual facts on how to physically position fingers for accurate playing ……mainly just loose waffle

If you enjoy repetitive, bullet point lists that don't really contain any relevant content, then this book is for you. To be fair, once in a while the repetition is broken up with a numbered list! To be unfair, even an AI should be able to shorten a url so a random picture citation doesn't take up half the page.