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A piano keyboard that tracks your hands to help you learn to play music properly and faster? Rich Jamiro has that in today's Rich on Tech. As a kid, my neighbor taught me one song on the piano. I can still play heart and soul, but that's it. You want it right as he hits there. Yep. Ohh God, ohh gosh, that's that's oh, this is this is now technology might help me learn more. About 10 years ago, I started to think, what if we could actually change instruments to make them easier to play and easier to learn? Jazz musician Roland Lamb created the Rolly piano modular keyboards that connect to a tablet with light up keys to help you learn. Yeah, no way. The biggest issue with learning music is practice. Now he's adding computer vision with a new device called Airwave. You put your tablet on it, it has a 3D infrared camera that tracks with very great precision the movement of each of your. Fingers and your whole hand and joint position. It teaches proper placement and form. Like a piano teacher might say, hey curl your hands a little better. Don't forget to cross your thumb under. We're able to show that to people every single time they practiced. You can control different instruments with different kinds of gestures. The app has hundreds of interactive lessons and songs, including popular hits. You can also create your own lessons, so I'm going to start there. And then I'm going to go down to my thumb and back up through my middle finger and up to my pinky. So you're basically just recorded this song quickly, and now it's playing it back, but also making it into a lesson. I've recorded it. And I didn't just record the notes. I recorded all of my hand data. This system designed for anyone, especially families and kids. Each keyboard costs $250. The Airwave IS300 Rolly keyboards are available now. Airwave ships next year. When we think that. There's no substitute for having a teacher, but for practice and for having something that can augment that experience. This is a very powerful device. I'm rich Demuro, that's rich on tech. Not that anyone cares. When I was growing up, I love music. My sisters were all into music, Very talented musicians, all of them in their own right. I tried it. I could. I just couldn't commit to what instrument. You don't believe I did the chello? Why in 3rd grade I would decide to do the cello. I don't know, It was bigger than me. You saw a Stray Cats video? And it really is. Quite possibly, but I tried a guitar. But these are all things I wish I would have stayed with. Now that I'm older especially, it's like, how cool would it be to just pick up a guitar? I'll tell you this, one of my daughters, Sydney, the her guitar teacher told us years ago she was in like late elementary school, early middle school. She said if you stick with this for two years, you'll have a skill that you will be able to use for the rest of your life. To this day, she's still when she wants to. Relaxing out she has like 3 different electric guitars couple of she just plays the guitar yeah it's it's just a great life skill two years and think with it for two years yeah but the first year and a half you know you and Katrina were like she's got no talent This is not gonna work isn't noisy in here. It sounds like no, I'm sorry all the of all the instruments guitars like yeah guitar or piano too I mean like TikTok videos yeah no, I wouldn't mind but a guitar would be fantastic. So you know what for you all you youngins out there. Stick with it. I was probably like you, Chris. I was too involved in sports. Like, you know, sports consumed my life. I was like, yeah, I wanna be doing sports and having to do something else. But my mom made, and I say made strongly encouraged. Slash made me do the piano. Ohh. Absolutely. If it had been like the drums or something, maybe something a little more organically made, then maybe I would have stopped with it now. Yeah. You usually there's a driving force, someone, one of the parents, like, you know, stick with it. I wish I would have stuck with it. You know, I quit everything. No, I don't, but I did quit that. I regret that, all right.