I just came across this on YouTube, as I am currently having a go at practicing this lesson. I am not sure how useful the clip is as a learning tool but I found it quite fascinating to see a graphical representation of Adams playing.
Does anyone use Bendometer or have an idea as to how accurate it is?
As far as it's accuracy is concerned, I noticed the blue highlite square jumping up to the 8 and 9 holes when Adam was playing down on the bottom four holes. Looks like it has a problem deciding which octave to latch onto.
I think this may have a little curiosity value but thats about all.
The bendometer is an excellent tool IMHO. When learning pieces such as this it can be hard to differentiate exactly what notes and the bendometer serves its function by tipping you off to which notes are being played, and your ear should do the rest. I noticed this lesson too yesterday on youtube and it helped me figure out what's goin on. Although I must say, any $12 chromatic tuner does the same thing...
I've been playing this piece the past few days since Adam posted his thread about it and the bendometer has been helpful figuring out the notes especially in the second section with lots of variations. Here is a drunken attempt (pardon the intro):
I used the Bendometer for a little bit and it helped a ton. Then my free trial ended. Now, if the programmer had been willing to let me buy a copy for $25-$50 bucks that would run on my computer forever, I would have jumped, but the way it's set up it runs online and you have to pay him $25 bucks a year to use it. I won't do business that way. If you have something new, and you want to sell an improved version, then I'll think about buying the new version when that comes out, but I won't buy the right to use something for a while and then have that right expire and the product disable itself.
