
Learn to play the Otamatone through a ten-video series that covers techniques, basic songs, and practical tips, while demystifying its toy status.
Explore the Otamatone's basic operation: power and volume via the back dial, octave controls, and line out for amplifiers, plus a comparison of big and small versions for practical use.
Hold the automaton at a slant, with your thumb on the back of the neck, and use the right hand as a modulator to shape timbre and tone matching.
Learn to tone match melodies on the automaton by identifying notes with relative pitch, mapping song melodies, and using reference instruments to play in the correct key.
Practice pitch matching to learn songs on the Otamatone by ear. Match G, B-flat, and F, slow playback to isolate tones, and await the next video on finger positioning.
Develop hand position and technique on the otamatone to switch notes smoothly using finger patterns. Learn pitch matching and efficient note transitions with a C major scale.
Learn to play mary had a little lamb on the otamatone by establishing a precise hand position in d major and practicing note relationships with tone matching.
Master the automaton's intermediate intro riff to here comes the sun, using major reference notes, roll-switch fingerings, and precise pitch matching across c-sharp, b, e, f-sharp, a.
Learn practical techniques to improve Otamatone playing, including pitch and tone matching, marking finger positions with a pencil for note accuracy, and using vibrato as an expressive technique.
Master advanced otamatone techniques in this final video, the last in a ten-part series, exploring monophonic playing, legato, vibrato, and the for Elise melody with fingering guidance.
Master a bonus lesson on the Otamatone, exploring monophonic playing, a fast note sequence (4-2-1), and tapping ideas, with a chance to be featured in the world’s best automaton montage.
Welcome to my 10-part series on how to play Otamatone! This wacky little instrument proves to be surprisingly hard to play, and this course will teach you all you need to know, from basics to advanced, and will teach you how to play the Otamatone!
•We start off with the fundamentals of learning how to hold, handle, and navigate the instrument and its different settings
•We then venture into how to play this little instrument and learn why it can be such a challenge to play, and is not as much of a novelty as many people would like to believe it is.
•We will then learn how to find the notes on this instrument and how to play basic melodies with different tips and tricks that can be used to navigate an instrument with no frets or references to where notes are
•I will show you a hack for learning the instrument - almost like training wheels - and then use this trick to catapult us into a new realm of what is possible on the instrument
•With this new knowledge, we will learn evermore advanced songs that will challenge you and also challenge the status quo of what is possible with this often-joked-about instrument.
Thank you so much for taking a look at this course! I always appreciate the opportunity to teach people and pass along my knowledge to others.
Hope to see you soon!
-Rowan Skye