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Finalist for GESS Award 2019: Maker Ukulele Set

Chord Hero is a starter guitar kit that helps make learning music fun for kids and highly affordable for parents.

The full kit comes with an acoustic guitar along with essential guitar accessories and mobile apps that teaches kids how to play the Guitar in a fun game. Included is a practice companion to help make music practice more like playtime than homework.

Maker Ukulele Set

The Perfect Maker Education Set

The Maker Ukulele Set is the perfect maker education product of the year! With the Maker Ukulele Set, kids build and design on their own ukulele before learning to play it through playing a game. The set comes with easy to understand pictorial instructions to help make assembly easy for kids. In building the ukulele, kids gain insight into the process that takes place in the assembly of a ukulele as well as the science behind it.

Motivating Kids To Learn Music

When learning is hands-on and fun, students are better engaged. Building and personalizing the ukulele leads to emotional attachment and therefore to interest in how to play. Also provides an opportunity to learn about the science of sound and music

Encourage Creativity

The Maker Ukulele Set comes with a 6-color watercolour palette and a paintbrush so kids can quickly begin personalising their own ukulele. The ukulele body and neck comes undercoated with grain filler, making it suitable for painting. While the wood are all sanded and smoothed, a sandpaper is included to allow kids to touch-up the wood themselves or if they would like to create patterns prior to painting.

Great Affordable Start Into Music

The fun transfers from the makerspace to the music space after completing the ukulele. The set includes a full version of Monster Chords (over $20 USD value) to help kids learn and practice their ukulele skills.

Strummer

Meet the Chord Hero Strummer

Chord Hero Strummer is a 36-inch steel-string acoustic guitar, in a mid-range size suitable for both children and adults. With a built-in pickup, 3-band equalizer, and output jack, this guitar is ready for everything from casual jamming to music recording or live performances. The Chord Hero Strummer has a body made of mahogany and spruce wood for a clear, high-quality sound. Check out the full specifications and review of Chord Hero Strummer!

Chord Hero Strummer is available at an introductory price starting from $85*.

Not just another low-cost guitar

Cheap guitars are usually made of lindenwood/basswood, a type of wood with a wide range of quality - in the case of cheap acoustic guitars, the quality is almost always poor. But Chord Hero Strummer is made of mahogany and spruce, wood types that provide a much better quality range and are well regarded in the world of guitars. Chord Hero Strummer has the sound quality and the features of a guitar typically costing three or four times its price.

Chord Hero Strummer is available in a series of strikingly attractive glossy colours: Pirate Black, Hot Pink, Sky Blue, Volcano Red, Supercar Yellow, and Deepest Purple. It also comes with custom light strings that are gentle on the fingers of beginners. The strings are colour-coded to match the tutorials provided in the companion app Monster Chords, making it even easier for beginners to learn to play.

Chord Hero Strummer comes with accessories for beginners including a carrying strap, finger protectors, guitar picks, and a 12-pack of glitter pens to express your creativity and individuality by personalising your guitar! If you mess up, simply wipe the guitar with a wet cloth and start again!

Monster Chords: Fun with Music

Learn by playing

Monster Chords is an iPhone and iPad game that kids play using a guitar. By strumming the right chords at the correct time, children learn how to play guitar chords in this fun game.

Real-time chord detection

Monster Chords does not require a special guitar or hardware to connect with your mobile device - simply launch the app and strum your guitar. The heart of Monster Chords is a polyphonic detection and analytics system developed and licensed by Uberchord Engineering. The Uberchord technology provides real-time processing of any chords played, filtering out surrounding noises and sifting through multiple layers of harmonics.

Animated tutorials

Monster Chords teaches kids to play guitar. The game includes a broad selection of animations to guide beginners on all kinds of guitar topics - from how to correctly hold a guitar, to playing advanced chords. Being the companion app to Chord Hero, Monster Chords has animations that match the colours of the strings on your Chord Hero guitar, making guitar learning even easier!

Play together on the big screen

Games are more fun when played with friends. Monster Chords supports AirPlay, a feature that allows wireless streaming to a big screen using Apple TV. Friends and families can learn and play guitar together and compete with each other.

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