ROADIE COACH KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN RAISES OVER 12 TIMES ITS GOAL ON DAY ONE. OVER $120,000 RAISED IN JUST 24 HOURS
January 26, 2022, Seattle WA – Just 24 hours after launching their new revolutionary music education tool Roadie Coach on Kickstarter, the Roadie Music team announced the results of Day 1. In under 3 minutes, Roadie Coach successfully reached 100% of its funding goal, quickly winning it the title of Kickstarter’s Projects We Love.
“Just one year after successfully launching our flagship automatic tuner Roadie 3, we decided to come back to Kickstarter and share what we had silently been working on for over two years. The Kickstarter community has proven to be an incredible ally to our product innovation cycle and their reaction to Roadie Coach only solidifies this more firmly.” Says CEO Hassane Slaibi.
Excitement continued to build and by the end of the first 24 hours, the campaign raised over $120,000. Writers from big music & tech blogs such as New Atlas and HiConsumption were quick to grab up the story as backers celebrated Coach’s launch in the comments:
“I have to say that Band Industries and the Roadie campaigns (and now add Roadie Coach!) are one of my favorite teams and projects to support because the collaboration never devolves or strays from the genuine intentions of each project” – Alfred.
“I am impressed by the ingenuity of this new product! Just ordered my Roadie Coach to complete my Roadie collection, can’t wait to have it”- Rima.
ABOUT ROADIE COACH:
Roadie Coach attaches to your instrument and makes it smarter.
This device, combined with the app, is an innovative solution that helps aspiring musicians learn acoustic guitar, electric guitar, ukulele and singing at almost any level of mastery and from wherever they want. It is also a great practice companion for more advanced players who are interested in getting insight into their playtime and performance.
How does Coach help you learn how to play?
Coach tracks a user’s playing, gives instant feedback and provides deep insight into their progress. It helps users learn to play their favorite songs step by step and at different speeds until they can perform the original tracks in full. Along the way, Coach suggests areas of focus that are specific to a user’s needs. This gives a clear path forward as users learn an extensive and ever-growing library of popular songs. Not just for solo learning, Coach makes it easy to share progress with a teacher or bandmate with a simple text.
Roadie Coach has all its bases covered, as it teaches chords, tabs and strum patterns. Users play along to backing tracks and enjoy an immersive learning experience. When singing and playing at the same time, Roadie Coach’s two built-in mics record and analyze everything so users can get individual feedback on each skill.
What’s special about the Coach Recorder?
Roadie Coach is not just suited for those looking to learn to play music. It’s also a powerful portable multi-track recorder for any musician wanting to take their practice and skills to the next level. Record and save all your musical ideas and jam sessions in high-quality. Coach will then automatically organize them and give you easy access to your full practice history and practice metrics. Got a gig? Coach also works as a contact mic for live playing.
More on the MIDI Controller feature
Coach has a Bluetooth radio built in, which enables it to interact with other devices and computers via MIDI. This means the two touch surfaces will both be accessible and visible to your DAW or audio app. You can assign these surfaces as MIDI inputs to control whatever tool or parameter your creativity demands.
As with every product released by Roadie Music, Roadie Coach was developed while keeping customer feedback and satisfaction the clear focus. A data-driven approach was used to gain insight into what did and didn’t work well for each individual user of the platform. This was done through the continuous A/B testing of features and conducting countless user interviews.
KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS
Easily learn songs in full
Follow a step by step learning approach that teaches you chords, tabs and strum patterns at different speeds until you are comfortable performing the original song. Practice with a backing track to make learning more effective and fun. Easily transpose a song from one key to another so it is more comfortable for you to play or sing.
Get instant feedback and deep insights
Roadie Coach gives you critical visual feedback as you play as well as tips, tutorials and specific exercises to improve your technique and skills. You can access your full performance history to understand your progress better and see your practice metrics.
Choose from a huge library of songs
Access a library of over hundreds of songs from all music genres including pop, rock, indie & more.
Sing and play at the same time
When learning to sing and play at the same time, Coach will carefully listen to both your voice and instrument and give you feedback on each.
High-quality multi-track recording
Roadie Coach is equipped with a sleek contact mic and an extremely capable microphone to capture and store all your performances and practice sessions in their utmost quality. It will also help organize them for you and give you easy-access to all your files.
Visualize and interact with your music
Coach is equipped with an intuitive LED touch interface so you can clearly visualize and interact with interesting elements of your playing. Two customizable sliders allow you to do things like adjust gain
to avoid clipping, see song progress as you play, or use a host of killer features we are still developing such as effects and MIDI commands.
Input/output, piezo pickup and micro amp
Coach has two 1/8th inch (3.5mm) audio jacks, audio-in and audio-out that can be used to plug electric guitars or other pickup-equipped instruments as well as external microphones. Users can also perform a headphone sound check and listen to on-board recordings. Coach can also be used as a micro amp when practicing electric guitar and as a contact mic for live performances.
Roadie Coach will be available for the wider public in October 2022 but it can be pre-ordered at a discount from their Kickstarter.
The creators of the device are available for demos, interviews and inquiries.
Contact: sam@roadiemusic.com
Roadie Music delivers worldwide. Customers get a 30-day money-back guarantee as well as a 1-year warranty for all Roadie products. For more information, visit their website.
About Roadie Music by Band Industries
Roadie Music is a brand of innovative tools for musicians. It was created by the leading music-technology startup Band Industries. The company was founded by Hassane Slaibi and
Bassam Jalgha and has offices in both Seattle and Beirut. Slaibi and Jalgha decided to combine their passions for music and tech by developing the company’s first award-winning product, the Roadie Tuner, in 2013. It garnered worldwide attention and accolades, including the TechCrunch Disrupt 2014 Audience Choice Award. In 2017 and 2018, they successfully released their more advanced products, Roadie 2 and Roadie Bass. The company continued its success with Roadie 3 in 2020 and is now expanding into the space of music education with a brand new hardware/software solution, Roadie Coach.
