Appmuse

This app is the best one that teaches properly!

Fantastic app

The app/education side of Spark is just as intuitive as it’s amps.

I like it. For price its got a poop ton of features.

I got my Spark about five months ago. I took it to my music teacher and he was so impressed with it that he purchased on. He now has four other students that have purchased one. I really like playing with the backing track. I have noticed marked improvement in my playing since I purchased the amp. I would highly recommend the Spark to anyone considering it. Show more

Travel buddy

I love this app especially for fingerpicking exercises. Something I struggled with a long time.

Great practice amp. Small amp with a powerful punch.

Seems to have a ton of useful features and practice abilities. Will update as I utilize

Enjoy the learning curve

The app uses Positive Grid’s auto chord transcription to teach you song. The problem with that being the transcriptions are often wrong. Also the app is some kind of YouTube rhythm game that doesn’t actually track your play. So it can actively tell you if you got anything wrong or right. In fact it can be fooled by hearing itself loudly. If you REALLY want to learn guitar nothing will stop you BUT paying for a subscription to this app WON’T help. Show more

Overall a pretty decent app. Features are pretty cool. Looks kinda sketchy in my opinion but nothing concerning or worries me.

In the tutorial, the text doesn’t fit the narrow YouTube window! You can only see the center section of text. The entire App is difficult to figure out how to use if you’re new Show more

Besides my actual guitar, I couldn’t ask for a more perfect tutor, practice partner, or sideman.

… and do really enjoy the app. It expands my spark amp experience a lot. Somehow the app seems to be stalled in early 2021. The workout is stuck in April, the monthly challenge in May. Is this just my issue? Getting in contact with the developers from within the app is not implemented. Still a Great app! Enjoy it a lot. Show more

I have tried learning with you tube, dvds, and books. This software has helped me understand timing and taught me more up to date songs

It helps me learn so much

I am still comparing this app to other existing guitar education apps that I’ve used for a while and will report back. However, here are my initial impressions and ideas to help Positive Grid improve Spark EDU. There is a lot of potential here — lots of music to play as “games” because it taps into YouTube Music and Apple Music (assuming you have downloaded the songs) for content. I’d love to see other content providers added like Amazon Music, Tidal, Spotify, etc. The app features four YouTube guitar education channels as “teachers” and various guitar education subjects (ie: guitar maintenance, finger style, rock, etc.) from countless other channels. The only problem is that I can’t bookmark more than the four channels presented as my teachers. I’d really like to add Justin Guitar and Marty Schwartz and anyone else I wish to choose if you’re relying on YouTubers for content anyway. I can search for their content, but it’s rather annoying to do so every time and be stuck seeing teachers that I’m not interested in on my lesson page. I would also like to be able to bookmark specific videos that I’d like to remember to watch, as well as saving the lessons I’d like to return to by being able to make my own folders and sub-folders. It would also be a nice option to get notified when new content is posted by my teachers. While using YouTube content is a positive, it also makes me wonder why you’re not creating your own unique lessons that are specifically made by Positive Grid, similar to the likes of Fender Play. I realize it takes work and money to do that, but you’re not giving people enough of a reason to want to download Spark EDU and pay for a subscription — without original content, people can simply head to YouTube and watch the content of the featured YouTubers there. The user interface for the “game” area could use a little bit more polish in terms of how the lesson tabs are presented on the screen. Spark EDU oddly has the tab squeezed into less than half the screen, which makes it difficult to read and follow rather than using the entire screen real estate like Yousician and Gibson, which have the best UI examples on the App Store for the way gamified guitar lesson tabs are presented. It also doesn’t tell the player the names of the notes they are playing as they scroll, which seems odd and is a lost opportunity to teach people to recognize the notes they’re playing. It would be helpful to have settings where the user can select the scrolling “finger” and background colors too, which would help people with colorblindness and other vision issues, as well as anyone else. I hope PG will improve these aspects of their game design. I’d also like to see alternate choice to have more traditional tabs on a staff presented like Fender Play and Ultimate Guitar’s (pro section) — and the ability to save as a pdf and print the staff tab notation would be handy (which no app currently supports). Its also a bit odd that PG doesn’t seem to officially support its own hardware/software in this app such as Bias 2 or the Spark amp. I’d also like to see official support for Roadie 2 tuner (where I can change/save my tuning presets easily every time I change songs that require alt tuning if the R2 device is connected to your app), and other popular hardware like iRig and the soon-to-be JamStack 2. They are competition, but it would encourage many more people to use your software and perhaps sign up for the Pro version. There is also a neat point system to unlock content for completing actions and practicing is a unique feature that no other apps has and is a great motivation tool. I’d love to see this points program extended to have more ways to earn points and well as the ability to earn physical rewards (like PG branded guitar maintenance tools from Music Nomad, picks, strings, PG pedals and amps, and even guitars!) in addition to more digital rewards (not just for Spark EDU but to redeem in ANY of Positive Grid’s software!). There is a lot of potential with the Spark EDU app, but the app needs more refinement in its UI/UX and features, as well as unique reasons to get people to join as pro users. If PG works on all of the above, this will be a killer app! Show more

Very nice app with songs and chords that help you play various cover songs! Recommend this app!

Great sound for a small amp Love the app Acoustic guitar sounds really good on this amp The electric guitar a lot of different sounds to choose from. Hank Gil from Indiana