The Future is Here: Introducing ThinkMusic
MusicFirst, the company that has been revolutionized music education over the past 13 years, is proud to be right at the cutting edge of technology integration once again. Inspired by the Think System made famous by Professor Harold Hill in the musical The Music Man, we are releasing an AI-powered product today called thinkmusic. After 3 years of designing and testing, the thinkmusic product will radically transform music education for the better. If you need a reminder of the Think System in action, here’s a clip from the 1962 film adaptation of The Music Man starring Robert Preston:
So what is thinkmusic? Pretty simple. We have created an easy to wear headband that contains over 1,000 tiny electrodes that when paired with our new innovative musicglasses, allows students (and adults) with little to no music playing experience to simply look at ANY standard piece of sheet music and play what’s on the page without any mistakes. The musicglasses transmit the musical information to the headband, and then the electrodes stimulate the parts of the brain that control a students embouchure, fingers, and innate musical expression to perform whatever is on the page. The electrical stimulus rewires the brain and circumvents the neural processes typically required to perform on the instrument. It’s almost as if their brains are instantly transformed from a total beginner to a musical prodigy. The secret? We’ve used our prior successes with PlayGPT and marchfirst, as well as our deep knowledge of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to bring this transformative new technology to rehearsal spaces in classrooms around the world.
The best part? The headbands and the musicglasses are completely adjustable and reusable so that the initial investment required can be used for many years to come! Your students can camouflage the headbands with their own unique style headbands so that your audience will have no idea that they are using thinkmusic. Direct a marching band? Use thinkmusic alongside marchfirst and hide the headbands in the headwear! The judges (and the competition) will never know you’ve got an edge!
But wait. There’s more! We even included a creativity mode where students can compose their own music on the spot and then play it on their instrument exactly like it sounds in their mind. It also works for improvisation! Your students will be able to trade changes with the best of them, able to sit in with professional musicians anytime - all with the help of thinkmusic.
We have tested this game-changing new technology with a number of middle school and high school bands and orchestras over the past year, and the results are truly impressive. The teachers who have taken thinkmusic for a test drive have all signed up to order an ensemble set for their schools - reaffirming that our initial notion of a truly exciting use of AI in music education can be done. Here’s a short video of one of those teachers literally flipping out while using thinkmusic. Crazy right?
If you would like more information on how you can get thinkmusic for your ensemble, just sign up for more information and a MusicFirst representative will get in touch with pricing as well as some information about potential negative medical side effects, including headaches, sensitivity to light, difficulty sleeping, rash, potential electric shock, feelings of superiority, hives, seizures, spontaneous whistling, nervous ticks, and distractedness. Be sure to speak to a medical professional before wearing thinkmusic.