Master Chords with GuitarGlove: The Ultimate Guitar Learning Glove

Problem Statement:

Learning the guitar is not easy: teachers are expensive, musical notes are hard to understand, and remembering each chord is difficult. So, for our Innovation School Residency project, we created a cheap alternative for children, while helping with making learning chords more intuitive and creating a fun experience for users using a guitar learning glove.

Idea:

Our idea is to create an assistive guitar learning experience through a smart guitar learning glove. Each finger of the glove will have 6 LEDs representing the 6 strings of the guitar. These LEDs will light up to indicate where each finger should be placed on the strings. The glove will also have sensors to detect the hand’s position and will only light up the LEDs when the hand is in the correct position to play the chord (correct fret ). This glove will connect to a guitar learning website, allowing the user to choose the chord they want to play and making learning guitar more intuitive and engaging.

Constraints:

The glove has to be attachable to any guitar, so portability is an important factor
The case had to be sturdy since movements in the ultrasonic sensor could give incorrect readings
It needed to be aesthetically pleasing, as users would not want to attach an unattractive product to their guitar or wear an unattractive glove.
We needed to find an easy way to attach the sensor to the guitar

Final Solution:

Every beginner who picks up a guitar wants to do only one thing: play a song, and songs are made of chords so everyone really wants to learn how to play chords. That is what we intend to change with the GuitarGlove. We have wanted to learn how to play the guitar for a long time now, but were never able to cause as we soon realised , learning chords takes time, scrolling through youtube videos, looking online for tutors; the process of getting started is too time consuming. And that is how GuitarGlove was born.

No more struggling to know where to place your fingers, no more craining your neck between the fretboard and no more mindless scrolling thru the net to learn chords.