If the pandemic has changed habits, it has also accelerated the development of a sector in full processing: musical learning. Deprived of face -to -face lessons, students and teachers turned to a digital sauce pedagogy . This transition to forced march has paved the way for new ways of learning, more interactive and more personalized. It is in this singular context that three players in the field have taken out of the game: Solfy , Piano LED and Guitar Social Club .
Gathered during a round table as part of the 2025 edition of the Pix festival, their respective founders, Anicet Bart, Anthony Bitard and Yohann Abbou , shared their vision of musical learning in full reinvention. A central question guided exchanges: how can technology transform musical learning-in particular via gamification, without betraying its essence?
The teaching revolution by technology
Exit dusty manuals and grooved methods, make way for stimulating tools! Each solution presented offers a structured and highly gamified experience: at Guitar Social Club, learning guitar follows clear steps, supported by in-app notifications , adopting a model close to that of Dolingo for language learning. For its part, Piano LED is betting on its LED band, which adapts to the user's game, making the practice of the instrument much more intuitive. As for Solfy, the platform revisits music theory by integrating into existing music courses, while injecting a dose of fun : rewards, objects to collect, and even a card game of the 7 families.
One of the strengths of this exchange: the need to integrate a personalization system at the heart of the devices, based largely on the AI . Solfy and Guitar Social Club also collaborate with CNRS teams to integrate educational artificial intelligence into their solution.
In practice, Solfy provides teachers synthetic analyzes for students' progress . Piano LED collects game data to adjust the user experience in real time, with the objective of expanding its offer to the automated transcription of YouTube videos. As for the application for budding guitarists, more than 4,500 videos, analyzed according to 27 criteria, allow tailor -made learning, adapted to the level and the difficulties of each.
User engagement: key to success
Beyond the possibilities of personalization and interaction, the issue is clear : maintaining the motivation of students to limit abandonment , frequent at the start of learning.
Solfy has understood this: the music theory application is designed to integrate into the class ritual, create an emotional attachment via a mascot and retain young users thanks to a strong identity. If the content does not fundamentally change over time, punctual events and a logic of seasonality allow you to animate the community. As Anicet Bart explains, the goal is to " reward to maintain short -term motivation in the face of a very long term objective. »»
At Guitar Social Club, we play the "Phygital" (Physics + Digital) card: monthly masterclass, face -to -face events, exchanges within the community ... Everything is thought of to make this "online" guitar school a learning space based on participation.
Piano LED, on the other hand, put on performance analysis functionalities and on the social dimension of its application. In addition to its presence on social networks, it will soon offer the sharing of recordings and tables of scores to encourage users to progress together.
In short, far from isolate, the musical application can become a place of exchanges and sharing . Yohann Abbou sums up this vision well: “ Today, digital divides and isolates, when it can really be a gathering force. And this gathering force, it is there because we have a common interest, be it music theory, piano or guitar. »»
Find the right balance between digital and human
Far from putting teachers unemployed, these tools are designed to complete their courses . At Solfy, the teachers remain at the center of the process, supported by recommendations generated by AI . Guitar Social Club and Piano LED also recognize the limits of all-numerical: when it comes to improvising or refining your technique, nothing replaces the look and experience of a teacher.
The PIX festival brings together the ICC ecosystem
Anicet Bart, Yohann Abbou and Anthony Bitard were invited in April 2025 as part of the Pix festival organized by the Plaine Images. Pix was born from the desire to make the actors of the cult and creative industries of the Hauts-de-France territory shine.
At the same time, meetings between actors in the creative industries sector, Pix is also an inspiration for professionals "by the way" wanting to seize good ideas, methodos, creativity and innovations produced within ICC.
