Given the recent outbreak, people are more isolated than ever. Economies aside, how you socialize and spend your time has changed and will change significantly. Most of us are not used to such seclusion and find it challenging psychologically and socially to internalize this new norm. The best possible way to keep your mental focus and integrity is to work on new skills.

Schools and colleges across the globe are turning towards online platforms but the platforms for music education are quite archaic and not ready for either group-based tutorials or self-learning.

Kena is building a wholistic online music platform for self-taught learners and practitioners and scale it globally for all instruments and genres.

Several research and studies show that learning to play music not only soothes anxiety and depression but also significantly boosts brain function. Isn't it time to pick up an instrument and learn now more than ever?

We launched our first product called Kena Opus targeted towards music practitioners on Jan 27th, 2020. We have seen more than 1000 registrations to-date and using our product. We would like to scale this to 100,000 users with your help.

Learning music is hard, personal and expensive. Learning music remotely or being self-taught is even harder.

Priscilla Du Preez

Hi, I am Preetham.

I wanted to always learn Guitar but found myself stuck between work and life and mostly sitting in traffic, commuting. Finding a good teacher who can help me learn at my convenient time was challenging (early morning or late nights mostly). So, like any self-respecting metalhead, I turned to Youtube about 3 years back and learned most of the things. I am composing music after 3 years of self-taught practice but the journey was quite hard.

During these times the costly mistakes I have made without feedback on my practice hurt my progress. This is when I realized that there is no platform out there to give self-taught musicians real-time feedback on rhythm, intonation, articulation, etc..

The key is to provide feedback to music that I want to learn. Nobody likes learning jingle bells or mary had a little lamb. Hence pre-built templates, missions or lessons that are forced upon me won’t work.

When I started 3 years back, I wanted to learn Enter Sandman by Metallica. That’s exactly what I did. Jumped the line.

We need to learn what we want to learn, that’s why I built Kena.

Don’t you have this one song you wish you could play? Sing? We all do, but we can’t get to it on any music learning program today before going through hours and hours of boring theory and songs.

Kena is an AI-assisted, online music education platform for self-taught learners and practitioners. We want to help musicians through every step of the way. Kena lets you choose your own song from your favorite destination (Youtube, iTunes, etc) and as you play it provides feedback. It’s like visual feedback to a dancer, dancing against a camera, and the computer tells them which moves are wrong. We do the same but for music. Doing that to music is insanely difficult, but we are able to chip away at it so far. I’ve done AI past 10 years of my career which has helped.

Thank you for your love and support.

Preetham Vishwanatha (Founder, Kena.ai)

We are available in Apple and Android app stores . We support 12 instruments and most genres and provide real-time feedback on rhythm, intonation and articulation of music. We also have enabled automatic Piano transcription to the scoresheet.

PS: We are working on an AI-based music tutor platform called Kena Solo as our next product line targeted towards beginners.

Some of my renditions on Kena: https://opus.kena.ai/musician/freedom

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