The world’s easiest music learning system – at last?

Dr Tom Benjamin credits IP Australia’s unique Innovation Patent system: “My system is so easy that once demonstrated everyone and their dog will want to claim they invented it. The IP Australia system allowed me to lodge it so that no one can monopolize it.”  He is bequeathing the system to the public domain as he wants everyone to use it.

 

Dr Benjamin describes it as an ergonomic approach that allows people to start playing guitar and ukulele in minutes. Instead of gadgets or gimmicks it takes the revolutionary step of reversing the learning process:  “Traditional systems require the player and instrument to adjust to the music score. My system reverses this by re-writing the music to fit the ergonomics. One-finger and zero-finger chords fit comfortably with special backing tracks made possible with computer technology.”

 

Dr Benjamin is a psychologist and educational researcher but credits the origins of his invention to campfires and as a wedding and frat party singer in Detroit: “I developed these one-finger chords to quickly play requests by ear. A professor from Victoria spotted my guitar system in a bundle of my research correspondence and encouraged me to publish it. International music education conferences are constantly calling out for ways to engage kids by making it practical to play their pop music styles.”

 

 The system is designed for teachers and community groups who have to immediately get learner attention and start making passable music in minutes. Tom will be launching the system as an international online Music Club www.bigmarker.com/music in USA.  Over a 4-week cycle Tom will take participants from total beginner level through to full multitrack music video, every Thursday at 10:30AM (Australian Eastern)