kingsley-international pictures was an american film importing and releasing agency , located in new york , active between 1952 and 1962 with its product distributed by union motion picture distributors .

the company specialized in importing foreign art house film , mainly french but also some independent british titles , such as carrington v.c. ( 1955 ) , lucky jim ( 1957 ) , the league of gentlemen ( 1960 ) , and only two can play ( 1962 ) .

the company was started and run by edward kingsley ( 1914-1962 ) , a pioneer in " art house " film distribution in the us .

kingsley began as a publicist for paramount pictures in 1933 .

in 1949 , he began distributing french films in partnership with arthur mayer , another art house distribution pioneer , but after a few years he branched out on his own by starting kingsley-international pictures .

the company is mainly famous for two things : in 1957 it introduced brigitte bardot to the american audience via and god created woman , which created a bardot fever in the usa , and it released the first film version of lady chatterley 's lover , the 1955 french film l'amant de lady chatterley , which in 1955 was banned by new york state board of regents , not because of any sex scenes , but because it " promoted adultery " .

the film was eventually released in 1959 after the us supreme court ruled the banning unconstitutional .

that court ruling is seen as a landmark decision forming modern us views on censorship .

in 1956 , the company became the art house subsidiary of columbia pictures , not because of a sudden interest from columbia for foreign films in general , but as a way for the hollywood major to distribute and make money from and god created woman without having to submit the film to the pca for approval , which the company as member of the mpaa was obliged to do .

when kingsley died in 1962 , at the age of 47 , the company was dissolved .

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in kingsley international pictures corp . v . regents the state of new york had refused to issue a license for the motion picture lady chatterley ' s lover because it
alluringly portrays adultery as proper behavior .
there was no claim that the film constituted an incitement to unlawful conduct . without deciding whether all licensing schemes for motion pictures were unconstitutional the supreme court held that the refusal to grant this license violated the first amendment . the court reaffirmed that motion pictures were within the scope of the first amendment and proclaimed that the amendment ' s
basic guarantee
is
the freedom to advocate ideas ,
including the idea that adultery may in some cases be justified .
alleging that the case arises under the constitution of the united states , appellants empire pictures distributing company , inc . , a texas corporation , and kingsley international pictures corporation , a new york corporation , brought this action to have two ordinances of the city of fort worth , texas declared to be violative of their rights under the first and fourteenth amendments of the constitution of the united states , and to have their enforcement enjoined . the defendants , appellees here , are the city of fort worth , a municipal corporation , its mayor , city manager and chief of police , along with the members of the board of censorship created by one of the ordinances .
' moving pictures are our only concern and , what is more to the point , only those motion pictures which alluringly present acts of sexual immorality as proper behavior . ' 4 n . y . 2d 349 , 175 n . y . s . 2d 39 , 48 , 151 n . e . 2d 197 , 203 .
moving pictures are our only concern and , what is more to the point , only those motion pictures which [ 700 ] alluringly present acts of sexual immorality as proper behavior .
4 n . y . 2d 349 , 361 , 151 n . e . 2d 197 , 203 , 175 n . y . s . 2d 39 , 48 .
the motion picture division of the new york state education department was authorized to issue licenses for the exhibition , sale , lease , or distribution of motion pictures . licenses could be denied to any motion picture portraying in whole or in part , either ‘‘expressly or impliedly’’ immoral , perverse , or lewd sexual acts as ‘‘desirable , acceptable , or proper patterns of behavior . ’’ when kingsley international pictures submitted a filmed version of h . d . lawrence’s novel , lady chatterley’s lover to the education division for a license , it was denied on the grounds that isolated scenes were immoral . the corporation appealed to the university of new york regents who upheld the decision after they concluded the film presented adultery as acceptable and proper behavior . a lower court annulled the regents’ decision , but a sharply divided new york court of appeals reinstated the rescission and upheld the regents . the court of appeals declared that although lady chatterley’s lover was not obscene , it nevertheless ‘‘alluringly portrays adultery as proper behavior . ’’
343 u . s . 495 ( 1952 ) . we held there that
expression by means of motion pictures [ 701 ] is included within the free speech and free press guaranty of the first and fourteenth amendments .
so long as the state has the responsibility for interdicting motion pictures which transgress the bounds of decency , we have the responsibility for furnishing guide lines to the agency charged with enforcing the law .
id . , at 408 .
' so long as the state has the responsibility for interdicting motion pictures which transgress the bounds of decency , we have the responsibility for furnishing guide lines to the agency charged with enforcing the law . ' id . , at 408 .
cf . kingsley books , inc . , v . brown , 354 u . s . 436 , 77 s . ct . 1325 , 1 l . ed . 2d 1469 ; alberts v . state of california , 354 u . s . 476 , 77 s . ct . 1304 , 1 l . ed . 2d 1498 .
since 1921 , the education law of this state has required the licensing of motion pictures and authorized refusal of a license for a motion picture which is ' obscene , indecent , immoral ' or which would ' tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime . '
' since 1921 , the education law of this state has required the licensing of motion pictures and authorized refusal of a license for a motion picture which is ' obscene , indecent , immoral ' or which would ' tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime . '
' to hold that liberty and expression by means of motion pictures is guaranteed by the first and fourteenth amendments , however , is not the end of our problem . it does not follow that the constitution requires absolute freedom to exhibit every motion picture of every kind at all times and all places . ' [
it was alleged that kingsley was the sole owner of the right to exhibit a motion picture film
and god created woman
in the united states , and that empire was owner of the rights to distribute the film in the state of texas , and that empire had contracted with a theater in fort worth to exhibit the picture , but it had been unable to do so because the city refused to issue a permit for such exhibition , without which permit appellants would be subject to the penalties of one of the ordinances . the complaint charged that the ordinances provided for a system of censorship of motion pictures and that the ordinances were , on their face and as interpreted by defendants , in contravention of their rights guaranteed by the first and fourteenth amendments of the constitution .
the opinion written by chief judge conway stated : ' ( i ) t is curious indeed to say in one breath , as some do , that obscene motion pictures may be censored , and then in another breath that motion pictures which alluringly portray adultery as proper and desirable may not be censored . as stated above , ' the law is concerned with effect , not merely with but one means of producing it . ' it must be firmly borne in mind that to give obscenity , as defined , the stature of the only constitutional limitation is to extend an invitation to corrupt the public morals by methods of presentation which craft will insure do not fall squarely within the definition of that term . precedent , just as sound principle , will not support a statement that motion pictures must be ' out and out ' obscene before they may be censored . ' 4 n . y . 2d 364 , 175 n . y . s . 2d 51 , 151 n . e . 2d 205 .
section 122a of the state education law was passed in 1954 to meet this court ' s decision in commercial pictures corp . v . regents , 346 u . s . 587 , 74 s . ct . 286 , 98 l . ed . 329 , which overturned the new york court o ap peals ' holding in commercial pictures corp . v . board of regents , 305 n . y . 336 , 113 n . e . 2d 502 , 505 , that the film la ronde could be banned as ' immoral ' and as ' tend ( ing ) to corrupt morals ' under § 122 . 1 the court ' s decision in commercial pictures was but a one line per curiam with a citation to joseph burstyn , inc . v . wilson , 343 u . s . 495 , 72 s . ct . 777 , 96 l . ed . 1098 , which in turn had held for naught not the word ' immoral ' but the term ' sacrilegious ' in the statute .
7 . the opinion written by chief judge conway stated :
it is curious indeed to say in one breath , as some do , that obscene motion pictures may be censored , and then in another breath that motion pictures which alluringly portray adultery as proper and desirable may not be censored . as stated above , ' the law is concerned with effect , not merely with but one means of producing it . ' it must be firmly borne in mind that to give obscenity , as defined , the stature of the only constitutional limitation is to extend an invitation to corrupt the public morals by methods of presentation which craft will insure do not fall squarely within the definition of that term . precedent , just as sound principle , will not support a statement that motion pictures must be ' out and out ' obscene before they may be censored .
4 n . y . 2d , at 364 , 151 n . e . 2d , at 205 , 175 n . y . s . 2d , at 51 .
305 n . y . 336 , 113 n . e . 2d 502 , that the film la ronde could be banned as
immoral
and as
tend [ ing ] to corrupt morals
under § 122 . [ note 1 ] the court ' s decision in commercial pictures was but a one line per curiam with a citation to
black and douglas shared the view thatnew york’s law involved prior censorship of motion pictures and thus violated the precedent set in near v . minnesota ( 1931 ) barring prior restraint . black wrote separately to lament the court’s ‘‘individualized determination’’ of whether publications or motion pictures were obscene had converted it into a ‘‘supreme board of censors . ’’ frankfurter and harlan agreed with the majority’s judgment but not its rationale . both thought the court’s opinion failed to address the issue of ‘‘vagueness , ’’ which had been the grounds for earlier decisions against new york’s law ; that the opinion misconstrued the views of the new york courts ; and that even though they agreed , new york’s law was constitutional its application to lady chatterley’s lover exceeded constitutional bounds .
the inflexible command which the new york court of appeals has attributed to the state legislature thus cuts so close to the core of constitutional freedom as to make it quite needless in this case to examine the periphery . specifically , there is no occasion to consider the appellant ' s contention that the state is entirely without power to require films of any kind to be licensed prior to their exhibition . nor need we here determine whether , despite problems peculiar to motion pictures , the controls which a state may impose upon this medium of expression [ 690 ] are precisely coextensive with those allowable for newspapers , [ note 12 ] books , [ note 13 ] or individual speech . [ note 14 ] it is enough for the present case to reaffirm that motion pictures are within the first and fourteenth amendments ' basic protection .
kingsley sought judicial review of the regents ' determination . [ note 5 ] the appellate division unanimously annulled the action of the regents and directed that a license be issued . 4 app . div . 2d 348 , 165 n . y . s . 2d 681 . a sharply divided court of appeals , however , reversed the appellate division and upheld the regents ' refusal to license the film for exhibition . 4 n . y . 2d 349 , 151 n . e . 2d 197 , 175 n . y . s . 2d 39 . [ note 6 ]
the inflexible command which the new york court of appeals has attributed to the state legislature thus cuts so close to the core of constitutional freedom as to make it quite needless in this case to examine the periphery . specifically , there is no occasion to consider the appellant ' s contention that the state is entirely without power to require films of any kind to be licensed prior to their exhibition . nor need we here determine whether , despite problems peculiar to motion pictures , the controls which a state may impose upon this medium of expression are precisely coextensive with those allowable for newspapers , 12 books , 13 or individual speech . 14 it is enough for the present case to reaffirm that motion pictures are within the first and fourteenth amendments ' basic protection . joseph burstyn , inc . v . wilson , 343 u . s . 495 , 72 s . ct . 777 , 96 l . ed . 1098 .
as the distributor of a motion picture entitled ' lady chatterley ' s lover , ' the appellant kingsley submitted that film to the motion picture division of the new york education department for a license . finding three isolated scenes in the film
immoral ' within the intent of our law , ' and division refused to issue a license until the scenes in question were deleted . the distributor petitioned the regents of the university of the state of new york for a review of that ruling . 4 the regents upheld the denial of a license , but on the broader ground that ' the whole theme of this motion picture is immoral under said law , for that theme is the presentation of adultery as a desirable , acceptable and proper pattern of behavior . ' kingsley sought judicial review of the regents ' determination . 5 the appellate division unanimously annulled the action of the regents and directed that a license be issued . 4 a . d . 2d 348 , 165 n . y . s . 2d 681 . a sharply divided court of appeals , however , reversed the appellate division and upheld the regents ' refusal to license the film for exhibition . 4 n . y . 2d 349 , 175 n . y . s . 2d 39 , 151 n . e . 2d 197 . 6
i can take the words of the majority of the new york court of appeals only in their clear , unsophisticated and common meaning . they say that §§ 122 and 122 - a of new york ' s education law
require the denial of a license to motion pictures which are immoral in that they portray ' acts of sexual immorality . . . as desirable , acceptable or proper patterns of behavior . '
that court states the issue in the case in this language :
as the distributor of a motion picture entitled
lady chatterley ' s lover ,
the appellant kingsley submitted that film to the motion picture division of the new york education department for a license . finding three isolated scenes in the film
' immoral ' within the intent of our law ,
the division refused to issue a license until the scenes in question were deleted . the distributor petitioned the regents of the university of the state of new york for a review of that ruling . [ note 4 ] the regents upheld the denial of a license , but on the broader ground that
the whole theme of this motion picture is immoral under said law , for that theme is the presentation of adultery as a desirable , acceptable and proper pattern of behavior .
the different standards which different people may use to decide about the badness of pictures are well illustrated by the contrasting standards mentioned in the opinion of the new york court of appeals and the concurring opinion of mr . justice frankfurter here . as i read the new york court ' s opinion this movie was held immoral and banned because it makes adultery too alluring . mr . justice frankfurter quotes mr . lawrence , author of the book from which the movie was made , as believing censorship should be applied only to publications that make sex look ugly , that is , as i understand it , less alluring .
the different standards which different people may use to decide about the badness of pictures are well illustrated by the contrasting standards mentioned in the opinion of the new york court of appeals and the concurring opinion of mr . justice frankfurter here . as i read the new york court ' s opinion this movie was held immoral and banned because it makes adultery too alluring . mr . justice frankfurter quotes mr . lawrence , author of the book from which the movie was made , as believing censorship should be applied only to publications that make sex look ugly , that is , as i understand it , less alluring .
i can take the words of the majority of the new york court of appeals only in their clear , unsophisticated and common meaning . they say that §§ 122 and 122a of new york ' s education law ' require the denial of a license to motion pictures which are immoral in that they portray ' acts of sexual immorality * * * as desirable , acceptable or proper patterns of behavior .
( 4 n . y . 2d 349 , 175 n . y . s . 2d 39 , 151 n . e . 2d 197 . ) that court states the issue in the case in this language :
' the language of the supreme court of the united states , in a recent opinion of this precise problem , should be noted :
to hold that liberty and expression by means of motion pictures is guaranteed by the first and fourteenth amendments , however , is not the end of our problem . it does not follow that the constitution requires absolute freedom to exhibit every motion picture of every kind at all times and all places . ' ( ( joseph ) burstyn ( inc . ) v . wilson , 343 u . s . 495 , at ( page ) 502 ( 72 s . ct . 777 , at page 780 ) ) .
attached to the complaint also was a copy of article 527 ( 509 ) of the texas code , vernon ' s ann . p . c . art . 527 , providing punishment of any person who should engage in exhibition of lewd , lascivious or depraved motion pictures , or any figure , image , article or thing portraying nude or partly denuded female figures in compromising and obscene poses . the action did not involve any state officer , however , and no part of the argument is devoted to an attack upon this state statute . in fact , in the argument it was conceded that the district judge properly refused to have a three - judge court convened upon the admission that no state statute was involved .
ordinance 3475 creates a board of censors for the city of fort worth . it is the duty of the board
to supervise all motion picture exhibitions * * * and to cause the suppression of any such entertainment deemed by the board indecent or injurious to the morals of the citizens , or encouraging or promoting juvenile delinquency .
an exhibitor must apply for a permit . but
no permit shall be issued * * * for the showing of motion pictures * * * which are , in the opinion of the board , indecent or injurious to the morals of the citizens of fort worth , or which would tend to promote or encourage indecency , immorality or racial or sectional prejudices , or juvenile delinquency .
it is the corruption of public morals , occasioned by the inciting effect of a particular portrayal or by what new york has deemed the necessary effect of obscenity , at which the statute is aimed . in the words of chief judge conway ,
there is no difference [ 707 ] in substance between motion pictures which are corruptive of the public morals , and sexually suggestive , because of a predominance of suggestive scenes , and those which achieve precisely the same effect by presenting only several such scenes in a clearly approbatory manner throughout the course of the film . the law is concerned with effect , not merely with but one means of producing it . . . the objection lies in the corrosive effect upon the public sense of sexual morality .
4 n . y . 2d , at 358 , 151 n . e . 2d , at 201 , 175 n . y . s . 2d , at 46 . ( emphasis in original . )
the other ordinance , no . 3475 , creates a board of censors to supervise motion picture exhibitions and other forms of theatrical entertainment , requires a permit to exhibit a motion picture , prohibiting such exhibition without a permit , prescribes regulations for the granting or refusal of permits , regulates advertisements , etc . the board of censors was to consist of four men and four women whose duty it was to supervise all motion picture exhibitions , and its decisions were subject to appeal to a board consisting of its own membership supplemented by three named officials of the city of fort worth or tarrant county . the board was given the right to have motion pictures shown in advance to its membership ; had a right to refuse a permit
if a majority of the board of censors * * * shall condemn said picture or other form of theatrical entertainment as being indecent or injurious to the morals of the citizens , or as tending to promote or encourage indecency , immorality , or racial or sectional prejudices , or juvenile delinquency .
354 u . s . 476 . rather , the court found that the picture as a whole
alluringly portrays adultery as proper behavior .
as chief judge conway ' s prevailing opinion emphasized , therefore , the only portion of the statute involved in this case is that part of §§ 122 and 122 - a of the education law requiring the denial of a license to motion pictures
which are immoral in that they portray ' acts of sexual immorality . . . as desirable , acceptable or proper patterns of behavior . '
[ note 8 ] 4 n . y . 2d , at 351 , 151 n . e . 2d , at 197 , 175 n . y . s . 2d , at 40 . a majority of the court of appeals ascribed to that language a precise purpose of the new york legislature to require the denial of a license to a motion picture
because its subject matter is adultery presented as being right and desirable for certain people under [ 688 ] certain circumstances .
[ note 9 ] 4 n . y . 2d , at 369 , 151 n . e . 2d , at 208 , 175 n . y . s . 2d , at 55 ( concurring opinion ) .
the court of appeals unanimously and explicitly rejected any notion that the film is obscene . 7 see roth v . united states , 354 u . s . 476 , 77 s . ct . 1304 , 1 l . ed . 2d 1498 . rather , the court found that the picture as a whole ' alluringly portrays adultery as proper behavior . ' as chief judge conways ' prevailing opinion emphasized , therefore , the only portion of the statute involved in this case is that part of §§ 122 and 122a of the education law requiring the denial of a license to motion pictures ' which are immoral in that they portray ' acts of sexual immorality * * * as desirable , acceptale or proper patterns of behavior .
8 4 n . y . 2d 351 , 175 n . y . s . 2d 40 , 151 n . e . 2d 197 . a majority of the court of appeals ascribed to that language a precise purpose of the new york legislature to require the denial of a license to a motion picture ' because its subject matter is adultery presente as being right and desirable for certain people under certain circumstances . ' 9 4 n . y . 2d 369 , 178 n . y . s . 2d 55 , 151 n . e . 2d 208 ( concurring opinion ) .
in this context , the act comes within the ban of joseph burstyn , inc . v . wilson , 1952 , 343 u . s . 495 , 72 s . ct . 777 , 96 l . ed . 1098 . we held there that ' expression by means of motion pictures is included within the free speech and free press guaranty of the first and fourteenth amendments . ' id . , 343 us . at page 502 , 72 s . ct . at page 781 . referring to near v . state of minnesota ex rel . olson , 1931 , 283 u . s . 697 , 51 s . ct . 625 , 75 l . ed . 1357 , we said that while ' a major purpose of the first amendment guaranty of a free press was to prevent prior restraints upon publication ' such protection was not unlimited but did place on the state ' a heavy burden to demonstrate that the limitation challenged ' was exceptional . id . , 343 u . s . at pages 503504 , 72 s . ct . at page 781 . the standard applied there was the word ' sacrilegious ' and we found it set the censor ' adrift upon a boundless sea amid a myriad of conflicting currents of religious views * * * . ' id . , 343 u . s . at page 504 , 72 s . ct . at page 782 . we struck it down .
the opinion elsewhere , as indeed is also the case with §§ 122 and 122a themselves when independently read in their entirety , is instinct with the notion that mere abstract expressions of opinion regarding the desirability of sexual immorality , unaccompanied by obscenity 5 or incitement , are not proscribed . see 4 n . y . 2d 349 , especially at pages 351352 , 354 , 356358 , 361 , 363364 , 175 n . y . s . 2d 39 , at pages 4041 , 4243 4449 , 5051 , 151 n . e . 2d 197 , at pages 197 , 199 , 200201 , 203 , 204205 ; and notes 1 and 2 , supra . it is the corruption of public morals , occasioned by the inciting effect of a particular portrayal or by what new york has deemed the necessary effect of obscenity , at which the statute is aimed . in the words of chief judge conway , ' there is no difference in substance between motion pictures which are corruptive of the public morals , and sexually suggestive , because of a predominance of suggestive scenes , and those which achieve rec isely the same effect by presenting only several such scenes in a clearly approbatory manner throughout the course of the film . the law in concerned with effect , not merely with but one means of producing it * * * the objection lies in the corrosive effect upon the public sense of sexual morality . ' 4 n . y . 2d at page 358 , 175 n . y . s . 2d at page 46 , 151 n . e . 2d at page 201 . ( emphasis in original . )
i concur in the court ' s opinion and judgment but add a few words because of concurring opinions by several justices who rely on their appraisal of the movie lady chatterley ' s lover for holding that new york cannot constitutionally bar it . unlike them , i have not seen the picture . my view is that stated by mr . justice douglas , that prior censorship of moving pictures like prior censorship of newspapers and books violates the first and fourteenth amendments . if despite the constitution , however , this nation is to embark on the dangerous road of censorship , my belief is that this court is about the most inappropriate supreme board of censors that could be found . so far as i know , judges possess no special expertise providing exceptional competency to set standards and to supervise the private morals of the nation . in addition , the justices of this court seem especially unsuited to make the kind of value judgmentsas to what movies are good or bad for local communitieswhich the concurring opinions appear to require . we are told that the only way we can decide whether a state or municipality can constitutionally bar movis i § for this court to view and appraise each movie on a case - by - case basis . under these circumstances , every member of the court must exercise his own judgment as to how bad a picture is , a judgment which is ultimately based at least in large part on his own standard of what is immoral . the end result of such decisions seems to me to be a purely personal determination by individual justices as to whether a particular picture viewed is too bad to allow it to be seen by the public . such an individualized determination cannot be guided by reasonably fixed and certain standards . accordingly , neither states nor moving picture makers can possibly know in advance , with any fair degree of certainty , what can or cannot be done in the field of movie making and exhibiting . this uncertainty cannot easily be reconciled with the rule of law which our constitution envisages .
i concur in the court ' s opinion and judgment but add a few words because of concurring opinions by several justices who rely on their appraisal of the movie lady chatterley ' s lover for holding that new york cannot constitutionally bar it . unlike them , i have not seen the picture . my view is that stated by mr . justice douglas , that prior censorship of moving pictures like prior censorship of newspapers and books violates the first and fourteenth amendments . if despite the constitution , however , this nation is to embark on the dangerous road of censorship , my belief is that this court is about the most inappropriate supreme board of censors that could be found . so far as i know , judges possess no special expertise providing exceptional competency to set standards and to supervise the private morals of the nation . in addition , the justices of this court seem especially unsuited to make the kind of value judgments - - as to what movies are good or bad for local communities - - which the concurring opinions appear to require . we are told that the only way we can decide whether a state or municipality can constitutionally bar movies is for this court to view and appraise each movie on a case - by - case basis . under these circumstances , every member of the [ 691 ] court must exercise his own judgment as to how bad a picture is , a judgment which is ultimately based at least in large part on his own standard of what is immoral . the end result of such decisions seems to me to be a purely personal determination by individual justices as to whether a particular picture viewed is too bad to allow it to be seen by the public . such an individualized determination cannot be guided by reasonably fixed and certain standards . accordingly , neither states nor moving picture makers can possibly know in advance , with any fair degree of certainty , what can or cannot be done in the field of movie making and exhibiting . this uncertainty cannot easily be reconciled with the rule of law which our constitution envisages .
under provisions of the new york education law which were construed by the court of appeals of new york as requiring the denial of a license to show a motion picture when
its subject matter is adultery presented as being right and desirable for certain people under certain circumstances ,
that court sustained denial of a license to show a motion picture which it found
alluringly portrays adultery as proper behavior .
held : as thus construed and applied , the new york statute violates the freedom to advocate ideas which is guaranteed by the first amendment and protected by the fourteenth amendment from infringement by the states . pp . 684 - 690 . [ 684 ]
once again the court is required to consider the impact of new york ' s motion picture licensing law upon first amendment liberties , protected by the fourteenth amendment from infringement by the states . cf .
the new york statute makes it unlawful
to exhibit , or to sell , lease or lend for exhibition at any place of amusement for pay or in connection with any business in the state of new york , any motion picture film or reel [ 685 ] [ with certain exceptions not relevant here ] , unless there is at the time in full force and effect a valid license or permit therefor of the education department . . . .
[ note 1 ] the law provides that a license shall issue
unless such film or a part thereof is obscene , indecent , immoral , inhuman , sacrilegious , or is of such a character that its exhibition would tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime . . . .
[ note 2 ] a recent statutory amendment provides that ,
the term ' immoral ' and the phrase ' of such a character that its exhibition would tend to corrupt morals ' shall denote a motion picture film or part thereof , the dominant purpose or effect of which is erotic or pornographic ; or which portrays acts of sexual immorality , perversion , or lewdness , or which expressly or impliedly presents such acts as desirable , acceptable or proper patterns of behavior .
[ note 3 ]
the court of appeals unanimously and explicitly rejected any notion that the film is obscene . [ note 7 ] see
we accept the premise that the motion picture here in question can be so characterized . we accept too , as we must , the construction of the new york legislature ' s language which the court of appeals has put upon it .
aero mayflower transit co . v . board of r . r . comm ' rs ,
332 u . s . 495 . that construction , we emphasize , gives to the term
sexual immorality
a concept entirely different from the concept embraced in words like
obscenity
or
pornography .
[ note 10 ] moreover , it is not suggested that the film would itself operate as an incitement to illegal action . rather , the new york court of appeals tells us that the relevant portion of the new york education law requires the denial of a license to any motion picture which approvingly portrays an adulterous relationship , quite without reference to the manner of its portrayal .
what new york has done , therefore , is to prevent the exhibition of a motion picture because that picture advocates an idea - - that adultery under certain circumstances may be proper behavior . yet the first amendment ' s basic guarantee is of freedom to advocate ideas . the state , quite simply , has thus struck at the very heart of constitutionally protected liberty .
it is contended that the state ' s action was justified because the motion picture attractively portrays a relationship which is contrary to the moral standards , the religious precepts , and the legal code of its citizenry . this [ 689 ] argument misconceives what it is that the constitution protects . its guarantee is not confined to the expression of ideas that are conventional or shared by a majority . it protects advocacy of the opinion that adultery may sometimes be proper , no less than advocacy of socialism or the single tax . and in the realm of ideas it protects expression which is eloquent no less than that which is unconvincing .
advocacy of conduct proscribed by law is not , as mr . justice brandeis long ago pointed out ,
a justification for denying free speech where the advocacy falls short of incitement and there is nothing to indicate that the advocacy would be immediately acted on .
274 u . s . 357 , at 376 ( concurring opinion ) .
among free men , the deterrents ordinarily to be applied to prevent crime are education and punishment for violations of the law , not abridgment of the rights of free speech . . . .
in my judgment , this court should not permit itself to get into the very center of such policy controversies , which have so little in common with lawsuits .
as one whose taste in art and literature hardly qualifies him for the avant - garde , i am more than surprised , after viewing the picture , that the new york authorities should have banned
lady chatterley ' s lover .
to assume that this motion picture would have offended victorian [ 692 ] moral sensibilities is to rely only on the stuffiest of victorian conventions . whatever one ' s personal preferences may be about such matters , the refusal to license the exhibition of this picture , on the basis of the 1954 amendment to the new york state education law , can only mean that enactment forbids the public showing of any film that deals with adultery except by way of sermonizing condemnation or depicts any physical manifestation of an illicit amorous relation . since the denial of a license by the board of regents was confirmed by the highest court of the state , i have no choice but to agree with this court ' s judgment in holding that the state exceeded the bounds of free expression protected by the
liberty
of the fourteenth amendment . but i also believe that the court ' s opinion takes ground that exceeds the appropriate limits for decision . by way of reinforcing my brother harlan ' s objections to the scope of the court ' s opinion , i add the following .
even the author of
lady chatterley ' s lover
did not altogether rule out censorship , nor was his passionate zeal on behalf of society ' s profound interest in the endeavors of true artists so doctrinaire as to be unmindful of the facts of life regarding the sordid exploitation of man ' s nature and impulses . he knew there was such a thing as pornography , dirt for dirt ' s sake , or , to be more accurate , dirt for money ' s sake . this is what d . h . lawrence wrote :
but even i would censor genuine pornography , rigorously . it would not be very difficult . in the first place , genuine pornography is almost always underworld , it doesn ' t come into the open . in the second , you can recognize it by the insult it offers invariably , to sex , and to the human spirit .
pornography is the attempt to insult sex , to do dirt on it . this is unpardonable . take the very lowest instance , the picture post - card sold underhand , [ 693 ] by the underworld , in most cities . what i have seen of them have been of an ugliness to make you cry . the insult to the human body , the insult to a vital human relationship ! ugly and cheap they make the human nudity , ugly and degraded they make the sexual act , trivial and cheap and nasty .
( d . h . lawrence , pornography and obscenity , pp . 12 - 13 . )
this traffic has not lessened since lawrence wrote . apparently it is on the increase . in the course of the recent debate in both houses of parliament on the obscene publications bill , now on its way to passage , designed to free british authors from the hazards of too rigorous application in our day of lord cockburn ' s ruling , in 1868 , in
l . r . 3 q . b . 360 , weighty experience was adduced regarding the extensive dissemination of pornographic materials . [ note 1 ] see 597 parliamentary debates , h . c . , no . 36 ( tuesday , december 16 , 1958 ) , cols . 992 et seq . , and 216 parliamentary debates h . l . , no . 77 ( tuesday , june 2 , 1959 ) , cols . 489 et seq . nor is there any reason to believe that on this side of the ocean there has been a diminution in the pornographic business which years ago sought a flourishing market in some of the leading secondary schools for boys , who presumably had more means than boys in the public high schools .
it is not surprising , therefore , that the pertinacious , eloquent and free - spirited promoters of the liberalizing legislation in great britain did not conceive the needs of a civilized society , in assuring the utmost freedom to those who make literature and art possible - - authors , artists , publishers , producers , book sellers - - easily attainable by sounding abstract and unqualified dogmas about freedom . [ 694 ] they had a keen awareness that freedom of expression is no more an absolute than any other freedom , an awareness that is reflected in the opinions of mr . justice holmes and mr . justice brandeis , to whom we predominantly owe the present constitutional safeguards on behalf of freedom of expression . and see
283 u . s . 697 , 715 - 716 , for limitations on constitutionally protected freedom of speech . [ note 2 ]
in short , there is an evil against which a state may constitutionally protect itself , whatever we may think about the questions of policy involved . the real problem is the formulation of constitutionally allowable safeguards which society may take against evil without impinging upon the necessary dependence of a free society upon the fullest scope of free expression . one cannot read the debates in the house of commons and the house of lords and not realize the difficulty of reconciling these conflicting interests , in the framing of legislation on the ends of which there was agreement , even for those who most generously espouse that freedom of expression without which all freedom gradually withers .
it is not our province to meet these recalcitrant problems of legislative drafting . ours is the vital but very limited task of scrutinizing the work of the draftsmen in order to determine whether they have kept within the narrow limits of the kind of censorship which even d . h . lawrence deemed necessary . the legislation must not be so vague , the language so loose , as to leave to those who have to apply it too wide a discretion for sweeping within its condemnation what is permissible expression as [ 695 ] well as what society may permissibly prohibit . always remembering that the widest scope of freedom is to be given to the adventurous and imaginative exercise of the human spirit , we have struck down legislation phrased in language intrinsically vague , unless it be responsive to the common understanding of men even though not susceptible of explicit definition . the ultimate reason for invalidating such laws is that they lead to timidity and inertia and thereby discourage the boldness of expression indispensable for a progressive society .
the new york legislation of 1954 was the product of careful lawyers who sought to meet decisions of this court which had left no doubt that a motion - picture licensing law is not inherently outside the scope of the regulatory powers of a state under the fourteenth amendment . the court does not strike the law down because of vagueness , as we struck down prior new york legislation . nor does it reverse the judgment of the new york court of appeals , as i would , because in applying the new york law to
lady chatterley ' s lover
it applied it to a picture to which it cannot be applied without invading the area of constitutionally free expression . the difficulty which the court finds seems to derive from some expressions culled here and there from the opinion of the chief judge of the new york court of appeals . this leads the court to give the phrase
acts of sexual immorality . . . as desirable , acceptable or proper patterns of behavior
an innocent content , meaning , in effect , an allowable subject matter for discussion . but , surely , to attribute that result to the decision of the court of appeals , on the basis of a few detached phrases of chief judge conway , is to break a faggot into pieces , is to forget that the meaning of language is to be felt and its phrases not to be treated disjointedly .
sexual immorality
is not a new phrase in this branch of law and its implications dominate the [ 696 ] context . i hardly conceive it possible that the court would strike down as unconstitutional the federal statute against mailing lewd , obscene and lascivious matter , which has been the law of the land for nearly a hundred years , see the act of march 3 , 1865 , 13 stat . 507 , and march 3 , 1873 , 17 stat . 599 , whatever specific instances may be found not within its allowable prohibition . in sustaining this legislation this court gave the words
lewd , obscene and lascivious
concreteness by saying that they concern
sexual immorality .
and only very recently the court sustained the constitutionality of the statute .
unless i misread the opinion of the court , it strikes down the new york legislation in order to escape the task of deciding whether a particular picture is entitled to the protection of expression under the fourteenth amendment . such an exercise of the judicial function , however onerous or ungrateful , inheres in the very nature of the judicial enforcement of the due process clause . we cannot escape such instance - by - instance , case - by - case application of that clause in all the varieties of situations that come before this court . it would be comfortable if , by a comprehensive formula , we could decide when a confession is coerced so as to vitiate a state conviction . there is no such talismanic formula . every term we have to examine the particular circumstances of a particular case in order to apply generalities which no one disputes . it would be equally comfortable if a general formula could determine the unfairness of a state trial for want of counsel . but , except in capital cases , we have to thread our way , term after term , through the particular circumstances of a particular case in relation to a particular defendant in order to ascertain whether due process was denied in the unique situation before us . we are constantly called upon to consider the alleged misconduct of a prosecutor as vitiating the fairness of a particular [ 697 ] trial or the inflamed state of public opinion in a particular case as undermining the constitutional right to due process . again , in the series of cases coming here from the state courts , in which due process was invoked to enforce separation of church and state , decision certainly turned on the particularities of the specific situations before the court . it is needless to multiply instances . it is the nature of the concept of due process , and , i venture to believe , its high serviceability in our constitutional system , that the judicial enforcement of the due process clause is the very antithesis of a procrustean rule . this was recognized in the first full - dress discussion of the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment , when the court defined the nature of the problem as a
gradual process of judicial inclusion and exclusion , as the cases presented for decision shall require , with the reasons on which such decision may be founded .
96 u . s . 97 , 104 . the task is onerous and exacting , demanding as it does the utmost discipline in objectivity , the severest control of personal predilections . but it cannot be escaped , not even by disavowing that such is the nature of our task .
mr . justice douglas , with whom mr . justice black joins , concurring .
283 u . s . 697 . if a particular movie violates a valid law , the exhibitor can be prosecuted in the usual way . i can find in the first amendment no room for any censor [ 698 ] whether he is scanning an editorial , reading a news broadcast , editing a novel or a play , or previewing a movie .


yousician is an interactive music service to learn and play a musical instrument .

yousician currently supports guitar , piano , ukulele and bass , and is available on ios , android , windows , macos and linux platforms .

yousician analyses the users ’ playing on their real musical instruments , and provides them with instant feedback and guidance .

yousician claims to be the world ’s largest music educator .

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yousician’s chris thür ( left ) shows robert dunne how the yousician app works in practice .
songs you can play with guitar , piano , bass and ukulele in yousician .
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yousician and flowkey are two of the most popular piano learning apps and programs .
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yousician is the best way to teach , learn and play a musical instrument .
i already have a well established training plan . how do i incorporate yousician ?
open the downloaded file and drag and drop the yousician launcher to your applications folder .
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yousician listens to you play through your device’s microphone and gives you real - time feedback .
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yousician 2 . 46 is on its way ! this version includes improvements and bug fixes .
if yousician can get any better , it would be by following janasbo ideas . thanks !
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it would be great if yousician could add support for guitar pro 6 and 7 files .
yousician claims to be the world’s largest music educator , and with its reported 25 million people using yousician products—in just four years—that position seems difficult to beat by any old - school music institute .
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engage and motivate your students and take your teaching to a new level with yousician for educators .
i would love to play yousician piano on my android phone asap . that would be great !
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every second of every day someone new from around the world starts playing an instrument with yousician .
yousician distinguished educators ( yde ) are experienced teachers who successfully use yousician with their students . we recognize their outstanding performances in going the extra mile to make the world a more musical place .
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yousician is a revolutionary music platform for anyone to learn , play , create and teach music . millions of people around the world use yousician to advance their music skills and play the music they love .
you can use yousician guitar on mac and pc as well as ios and android devices that meet the system requirements . please check the following help center section for information about settings and features available in yousician .
yousician 2 . 50 is on its way ! this version includes some improvements to midi keyboards detection , as well as an addition to our video recording feature on ios . we also farewell the yousician welcome jingle .
after you choose your skill level , you need to tune up so yousician can hear what you’re playing .
ydes act as mentors to educators seeking advice how to get the most out of yousician . they share tips & tricks , ideas for lessons , how to best use yousician in group and private lessons , and more .
you can use yousician for the guitar , ukulele and bass , however flowkey is designed purely for the piano .
in dubai , he teaches both with abrsm and rockschool education systems using yousician to motivate and engage his students .
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what people who use yousician to learn guitar , piano , bass and ukulele have to say about their learning experience .
i ' ve gotten
credit
for notes on yousician by just hitting something , anything at the right time .
we are humbled by the amazing feedback from parents whose children are learning with teachers that include yousician in their lessons .
i always found bass really hard to learn , until i found yousician . ( has a $ 600 instrument )
yousician guitar works with any real 6 - string guitar , be it acoustic , electric or electroacoustic , in standard tuning .
a lot of people use guitar pro to create songs for yousician using the . gp3 , . gp4 and gp5 formats .
currently yousician ukulele has eight complete levels in lead and rhythm paths . more levels are to be added in the future .
on tour . last year yousician set up their office in greece for one month . this year they’re off to thailand .
thür is confident in saying that “yousician is our main product and is the product that we always wanted to build . ”
yousician piano is designed for an 88 key instrument but a 61 key instrument should be enough to make the most out of yousician . you can use any acoustic or electric piano , as well as midi - keyboards without built - in sound modules .
yousician 2 . 48 is coming ! this version includes the return of chord diagrams , performance and visual improvements and other fixes .
edit : saying that i feel like yousician does a better / more obvious job of teaching you and giving you a plan .
3 ) if using a mobile device , you should try reinstallation by deleting the app , rebooting your device and reinstalling yousician .
if you want to learn piano from an app , which has a very “video game” type of feel , then try yousician .
yousician update - version 2 . 50 # 14380 by anton . ys - mon jun 04 , 2018 1 : 12 pm - mon jun 04 , 2018 1 : 12 pm # 14380 yousician update - version 2 . 50 hello fellow yousicians ! yousician will be updated to version 2 . 50 this week . the update will be available for our desktop users ( windows and macos ) . . .
i ' m sure yousician is collecting this information for their own usage . i ' d love to see my stats , too .
yousician 2 . 51 is on its way ! this version includes the addition of paypal as a new payment method worldwide and bug fixes .
yousician 2 . 52 is on its way ! the version includes improvements to ukulele chord recognition as well as other small changes and bug fixes .
i have recently come across yousician on windows desktop . i ' m using it with my m - audio interface . so far so good .
the main thing i noticed is that yousician has much more of a game type of feel , while flowkey is clearly designed for learning songs .
yousician app boasts a sophisticated design and mature user interface , advanced audio technology and more focus placed on the journey that is learning an instrument .
yousician 2 . 49 is coming with changes to the guided lesson giving you more chances to skip songs to find the ones you want to play .
ehh . yousician is okay . rocksmith is way faster to get the basics , then ya can have actual tuition . neither can tell you your mistakes
yousician is a new popular app that is designed to help you learn and master a few instruments ( guitar and piano are the most popular ) .
founded in 2010 , yousician is the largest and fastest growing music education company in the world . millions of people around the globe use our products .
already . her approximately 100 students are all very enthusiastic about the program and love practicing and performing with yousician . natasha is very active spreading the joy of music with her students , inspiring fellow teachers presenting at music educator conferences in the u . s . , and as a yousician distinguished educator .
another award that yousician has collected is the top award for music technologies at sxsw , which thür and his team collected a large novelty check from .
info , news , announcements about the app yousician , available on ios , android , pc and mac to learn guitar , piano , bass and ukulele .
yousician channel hosts original music from yousician app to learn how to play guitar , bass , ukulele and piano . you can learn , practice and play all the songs you find in the channel by downloading yousician . we want to make the world a more musical place and we give people the opportunity to learn , play , teach and create music . follow us and be in touch to get more music content . the yousician music team is : markus pajakkala – wind instruments , keyboards , vocals , programming , composing and lyrics joaquin hernandez – guitars , vocals james neilson – guitars , composing leah harris - piano , vocals
yep : what is the deal here ? surely calibration is easy for a bit of software ? if my instrument says 400hz is a , why doesn ' t yousician agree ? it is completely nonsensical to offer a
calibrate
function in the yousician interface which is so poorly implemented . what is the explanation ?
yousician is modern technology & apos ; s gift to music education . it’s an app that teaches you to master the guitar instead of a plastic game controller .
yousician 2 . 50 is on its way with changes to midi keyboards detection , addition to video feature on ios and welcome jingle removal . time to rock !
1 ) if your guitar is tuned to an alternate tuning , unfortunately yousician will not recognize you play . please use standard tuning and tune your guitar with the
yousician was founded in december 2010 , the company’s benchmark app has been featured as the editor’s pick on the appstore and their users exceed the 13 million mark .
- new level 9 was added to the bass syllabus . - other small improvements . feedback or suggestions ? make your voice heard at feedback . yousician . com !
the songs section allows yousician users to share their own songs with tablature , and the challenges section updates weekly with two new original yousician - composed songs with multiple versions , from beginner to advanced songs to cater to all types of players . if you want to practice a song in yousician first , you can hop into practice mode where you can slow down the track , isolate and listen to just the guitar track , or set a looper to focus on a more challenging part of the song . yousician also comes with a built - in tuner , auto - speeder , chord diagrams and a whole lot of other features that’ll help you master your instrument .
this is a critical requirement for me . a large part of the value i derive from yousician comes from the user upload feature . + 2 votes from me !
whether you’re a bona fide beginner or a seasoned master , yousician can help you become a better musician . this invaluable resource guides you through thousands of songs packed with guitar and piano techniques like bends , slides , staccatos , and more . a sleek package , real - time feedback , and rewards - based courses make yousician invaluable .
literally the only ad i ' m getting .
yousician is the best way to learn to play guitar , bass , or pia - - ( skip ad )
unfortunately yousician doesn ' t support any file format newer than 5 . x which means there is a very real danger of the user song upload feature being made obsolete .
yes please . i only can use yousician with electric piano . i have paid a tunner man but he said that is very usually to tunne the old piano one or half note down because if not the wood and the piano can broke . so i have tunned the piano but one or half note down and i can not use yousician .
yousician 2 . 51 update includes : - changes to the user - generated content . - bug fixes want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
this video is a bit of an unorganized spill out of some thougts on a favorite lick i found in yousician . play along ! please comment if you have any questions !
fast forward to today and the yousician app boasts a sophisticated design and mature user interface , advanced audio technology and more focus placed on the journey that is learning an instrument .
yousician desktop ( pc / mac ) version has just been updated and you can now see your playing time statistics by clicking on your username at the top left of the screen .
yousician is a good musical education app that can help many users learn how to play a musical instrument . the app also contains many video tutorials where professional musicians offer interesting advice .
the yousician app is great for beginners , and as you can see in the video , even more advanced players can enjoy it , however it does have its limitations as well .
the feedback and input from ydes is crucial to us at yousician making it a better teaching tool . and other teachers can benefit from the learnings and experience of ydes as well .
yousician is free to play forever , but it’ll only give you feedback for about 20 minutes daily , or one lesson as they call it , on the free tier . a premium subscription will unlock unlimited play time and some additional features . yousician premium is priced at $ 9 . 99 / month for a yearly subscription or $ 19 . 99 for a monthly subscription .
1 ) if your piano is tuned to a different individual tuning , unfortunately yousician might not recognize you play . please use standard piano tuning and check that it is properly recognized on the
keep in mind that yousician isn ' t a game , even though it might look like one in all the screenshots below . yousician can actually teach you how to play an instrument . its practice mode lets you choose different songs and learn how to play them . and the app uses your android ' s microphone to see if you ' re doing it well or not .
i recently tried out yousician , and i must say , it was by far the most entertaining educational app i’ve played . yousician gameplay is essentially sight reading guitar tablature that’s synchronized with the backing track of the song . successfully hitting the notes in a song passes that level , and paying extra attention to your timing ranks you on the songs leaderboards , if you have what it takes .
the yousician guitar syllabus aims to cover everything a modern well - rounded guitarist needs . it can guide you step by step , but also lets you focus on what ' s important for you .
i would honestly just recommend you try flowkey for free . you can sign up , and see if you like the way the program works . it you don’t , then consider testing out yousician .
the yousician ukulele syllabus aims to cover everything a modern well - rounded player needs . it can guide you step by step , but also lets you focus on what ' s important for you .
you have also stated you want to learn to write music . this is quite different from just learning to play . from what i ' ve seen in yousician this is defiantly not the app for that .
i have the android yousician app and have been very happy with it . i ' m curious about the windows version tho . . . is it solely a web app or is it a generic native app ?
meet the distinguished educators , experienced teachers successfully using yousician with their students and mentoring other educators . learn how to get the most out of yousicianedu , tips & tricks , and ideas for lessons . learn more .
yousician for educators is a great way for music teachers to keep students motivated , practicing at home and having fun . teachers are able to assign and monitor homework tasks and student progression easily from the educator dashboard .
trained as a classical pianist since age 6 , he plays the saxophone , bass , drums , and the guitar . battling for the top spots in yousician ' s weekly challenges , he says
yousician has greatly improved my playing , as well as my ability to share music with new players who might be lacking motivation in the beginning . a lot of the classics which are taught on the guitar , have become old enough that the newest generation of students is not familiar with them . so , what better time to introduce them to new music from around the world by working through yousician ' s broad spectrum of music styles and genres !
with yousician , you are forced to go through a few steps , you can’t access all the material right away ( not with a free trial ) , and i just didn’t like the whole layout when compared to flowkey .
, a music school built entirely on yousician educating 150 + students . affectionately known as mister v . by his students , special performances and achievements are rewarded with the exclusive
mister v . special edition guitar pick
.
we regularly update yousician to improve our audio technology , add new songs and bring you more expert tutorials . anything we should know about ? follow the link below and we’ll get back to you within 1 - 2 days : urltoken
i have also just started using yousician for keys and piano and it works flawlessly with my midi keyboard . i am using the pc version . maybe it ' s a new feature in the more recent versions of the application ?
tommi has been teaching full - time since 1994 and his guitar lessons are tailored for each student . at the moment he ' s working at rauman musiikkikoulu , rock academy finland and university of turku . with a background in electrical engineering and an urge to develop sound he is constantly experimenting with acoustics , electrics and building instruments . tommi is using yousician in many different teaching contexts and a great source of ideas for how to further improve yousician for educators .
yousician ceo chris thür gave an engaging presentation about the company . a question often apparently arises whether yousician really is a game or rather educational software . according to mr . thür , since the app , in fact , fulfills several conditions of a game product – voluntary participation , feedback system , rules , winning conditions – it is indeed a game . if the side product of the game is that people learn actual real life musical skills , then everyone wins !
yes , please ! seeing these sort of statistics in video games is always immensely satisfying for me . something about seeing the numbers go up makes me feel motivated and that ' s something that would benefit yousician amazingly . fantastic suggestion !
yousician rocks ! i ' m using it to revitalise my learning guitar and keyboard , and making great progress . i agree with your points about needing the subscription , and that proper usb keyboard support would be great . cheers , graham
a friend linked me an ebay listing for a rocksmith cable for £30 . if the 1 / 4
to 3 . 5mm adapter doesn ' t work i may have to go for it since yousician is not getting stellar reviews here .
that ' s because yousician is an absolute disaster as a standalone teacher for music . even a few lessons will go a long way towards putting you on the right track , and there are services that do video lessons online for less than what you pay a teacher in person . yousician ' s use of guitar - hero tabs and colored notes ( without the option to make things black and white like normal written music ) really make it a bad option all - around .
yousician is completely useless if you really want to learn and understand physical and theoretical skills of the piano and music . get a piano teacher , there ' s plenty of them who can also give just occasional lessons ( you can even ask local professional music students ) . i can assure you that yousician is a complete waste of time and it will get you absolutely nowhere , it ' s just a play - along thing which will always leave you empty - handed in the long run .
this week we dive into two compositions by the very eccentric french composer eric satie ( 1866 - 1925 ) , ”gnossienne 1 dub” and ”je te veux” . give it your best shot and secure your place on the leaderboards ! # yousician # weeklychallenge urltoken
if you’re looking for an engaging way to start learning to play guitar , or are an experienced player in need of a fresh approach to practicing , you should give yousician a spin . it’ll keep you entertained in your quest to be a better player !
yousician is mainly geared toward musicians who ' ve just started playing their instruments . that said , the app can provide help for any skill level , meaning this tool may be useful both for beginners and musicians who ' ve been playing for several years .
- new home screen and personalized lessons features were added to make learning with yousician even more effective . - updated fonts and loading screen animation . - some other technical improvements & fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
also , neither one are super accurate at note recognition but of the two i found rocksmith way better and also more fun . shit you not i ' ve gotten
credit
for notes on yousician by just hitting something , anything at the right time .
it works with any acoustic or electric guitar , without any special equipment . yousician is packed with songs and exercises for beginners and advanced guitarists and is available for every major platform out there . ios , android , windows , mac and linux , to be exact .
the yousician experience is divided into three game modes : missions , songs and challenges . the missions game mode will walk you through a set of exercises based on your skill level to help you learn the basics , master a playing technique or build up picking speed .
- we ' ve made improvements to the tuner . - yousician’s weekly challenges will soon be available in guitartuna ! if you experience any issues with guitartuna , please send an email to support @ urltoken and we ' ll get back to you as soon as possible !
and if this wasn’t enough , the yousician house band stole the stage and blew the roof off the party . with great energy , experience , excellent musicianship and brilliant song choices ( megaman ! ) , they had the audience crazy dancing by the end of their set .
for me , i like learning songs that i want to be able to play . and i ' ve developed skill by playing those songs over and over ( and obviously learning new ones along the way ) . this doesn ' t really fit yousician ' s methodology .
i use yousician ! it has actually helped me so much . i have made leaps and bounds with it . i use the software to practice changing chords and practicing fingerpicking , and then go on to learn songs that i want to learn from the ukulele teacher on youtube !
yousician is a versatile and open platform used to teach all types of musical subjects . there is no limit to what students can learn with the app . as an educator you can use the built - in syllabi and exercises . or you can import your own library of material .
this week we take an exotic musical trip to china with two chinese traditional songs : mo li hua ( jasmine flower ) and pavilion farewell . give it a try and , if you’re using yousician on ios , record yourself playing this week’s challenge - we would love to see you play !
from coffee breaks in the music room in order to learn the guitar riff of the day , along with colour - coding the notes on the guitar and encouraging people to paint their nails in the same colours to promote quicker learning , yousician has its finger on the pulse of innovative ideas .
yousician did a tremendous job of - transforming the venue into a massive music party . demo spots equipped with guitars , ukuleles and keyboards were very popular , some people trying out the instruments for the first time . the app worked incredibly well despite the noise from the crowd and the occasional guitar shredding .
i agree with you totally , yousician really rocks and that ' s why i got subscription . the best thing is that i got i for free . hacks - web group released an apk file to replace it and you have unlimited subscription ; ) - check it out if you want too - urltoken
when thür and kaipainen started yousician , they did not know any other people that had started their own companies . it sounded like a “crazy thing” that other people did as a form of career . however , the beginning of their journey coincided with the startup grassroots movement growing in many parts in finland .
- bass players will be able to enjoy a new level 7 in the bass syllabus . - various improvements in the leaderboard screen . - tos were updated with some changes in the payment policy . - other bug fixes and improvements . feedback or suggestions ? make your voice heard at feedback . yousician . com !
. deal school is made up of students grades k - 8 . students in 4th - 8th grade participate in general music . they also receive 14 weeks of guitar or ukulele instruction . natasha has been playing piano since age 7 , plays clarinet and now thanks to yousician enjoys improving her guitar and ukulele skills .
yousician have won over 20 international awards on several different platforms and under many categories . it began with the 20 euro prize in the university and the team has continued to collect prizes under the mobile applications category , within the education category and then an initiative by the european union – the best european learning game award .
i did a lot of research into this a few weeks ago . what i learned from a lot of reading and watching several youtube videos , was that yousician is okay , has a really weak song library , and people still prefer rocksmith . you can research yourself but i learned i ' m just sticking with rocksmith .
i tried the guitar version of yousician for a while last year . to be honest i could already kind of play but i thought a daily regimen of app / game would get me back on consistent practice . it wasn ' t quite a month before i became bored with it , haven ' t touched it since .
i ' ve never had rocksmith , but i hear yousician and that game both have in common that you have to master the final songs at pretty high tempos . that ' s rly my biggest complaint so far with this app . . . . but it enables me to practice harder so it ' s all g .
yousician is an app to learn how to play the guitar , bass , or ukelele using just your android . i mean , obviously you ' ll also need the musical instrument you want to learn how to play – it ' s hard to learn how to play the guitar if you don ' t have a guitar .
just like the wide variety of piano methods , yousician isn ' t for everyone . if you ' re looking to learn composition , it may be easier to teach yourself through theory books ( i recommend practical theory complete by sandy feldstein ) and piano exercise books ( the virtuoso pianist by charles - louis hanon is helpful ) .
it ' s great for practising switching between chords as well as learning chords , but i doubt that anyone can become a
real
musician by just using this app . but it ' s great as long as you mix up yousician with other sources of practice . i personally wouldn ' t pay 120€ for it though .
hey guys , while yousician doesn ' t buy my ideia , you can use this really ingenious app for google chrome , it ' s called tracking time . it ' s a business oriented app and you won ' t be using a lot of its features , but who said playing the guitar isn ' t serious business right ?
realize you ' re saying ' all i want to do is learn how to do something that takes most people hundreds of hours to learn how to do at even a basic level . ' good luck , and if you are dead - set on teaching yourself using easy books with music to read may get you farther than yousician .
yousician 2 . 49 is coming ! this version includes : - changes to the guided lesson giving you more skips to find the songs you want to play . - a new privacy dashboard has been added under settings - privacy tab in app . - bug fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
music is one of the most diverse cultural phenomena in the world . musicians come from all walks of life and everyone has an individual musical identity . the “you” in yousician reflects this , as does the fingerprint in our logo . we help you discover and develop your own musical identity , so you can make the world a more musical place .
at the moment yousician works almost out - of - the - box . but i am having weekly lessons . my main thing is i want to have a bit more fun in my practice . doing my major and minor chords and fingering lessons ( while useful ) can get very dull and that ' s not why i picked up an instrument .
guitar shredding ? yes ! yousician had come with an arcade cabinet that featured a competitive rock guitar tournament version of their game , solo and in pairs . although a real electric guitar is definitely more of a challenge than , say , a guitar hero controller , the songs available were simple yet fun enough to let even the casual guitar player enjoy rocking out .
yea i would agree with you that yousician is not a good teacher . it is unable to tell you or show you physically what you need to do which is important if you have no experience at all . i have noticed that it doesn ' t tell you anything about fingering . this is not really a good thing if you are just a beginner .
yousician 2 . 50 update includes : - improvements to midi keyboards detection . - welcome jingle removal . goodbye , ta - da - da - da da - da - da ! - video recording : colour indicator for the full screen video that will be shown in case you’re making mistakes in your playing . - bug fixes want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
thür wanted to share the big check with his team , so he insisted on taking it home with him on the flight back to finland . it was too large and the flight attendant had to ask the captain whether it was allowed on board . the captain seemed to understand what it meant to thür and he managed to find a place on the plane for the check . it hangs proudly on yousician’s wall along with the city of tampere’s innovation award among many others .
i am learning piano using yousician app on my ios device . in this app , the student / user is shown the notes in staff notation or colored bars showing which fingers to use and which notes to play . the notes move from right to left as the song progresses . my question is , is it right to get used to this kind of playing method ? will it be difficult when you actually want to read musing from the staves from a music book in future ?
co - founder and ceo chris thür has a pragmatic approach to business and the company ’s newest app is making waves on many fronts . thür and yousician’s coo mikko kaipainen met while studying in tampere university of technology , finland , and were teamed together on a student project . the end result was their first prize as a business team and the reward was 20 euros . the real reward , however , was the relationship that was formed and would continue on to bigger and better things .
i think yousician has had lukewarm reception here , but i ' m at about the same level you are , i suspect - - i ' m 6 months in - - and i use the program constantly to push my limits beyond simple chord progressions . specifically , i ' m learning legato and slide riffs , arpeggios , and songs i have an interest in using the app , and then practicing with a metronome on my own time to push my fingers and nervous system to the limit .
i feel like drills are very useful to learning just about everything else in life . we learn multiplication tables and how to hit a baseball from drills . why would an instrument be different ? but then i ' ve never learned an instrument before so maybe it is ? i ' ve been doing the 10 - 15 mins or so a day that yousician allows you and then working through various youtube vids but i wonder if i spent more time on drills if i ' d be better off .
no game is complete without a few menus . during this talk you will learn how to build your own menu system that helps you juggle anything from a few menus to hundreds of complex uis . we share our learnings based on an application that scaled from a small development team to sixty people : yousician . we will tell you how you can have lots of menus in your game with minimal performance and memory impact and share practical tips of how you can take your menus to the next level .
if something is not measured , it cannot be improved - william thomson , irish physicist so my suggestion is that yousician gives us acces to our statistics , total practice time , practice time by the path chosen , how long did we take to move up to another level , time spent on the challenges , on the missions . anyway , i ' m sure this would help plenty of users that would be able to improve their performance and invest their time on what ' s really the issue for us . tks !
hi guys , i have a query regarding the piano mode , i ' m trying to get my 2 girls into music and have some cheap keyboards they can play with , the problem i have is that 1 keyboard recognises the noted cde perfectly the other is a half step out . both keyboards are only small 28 keys , and only recognise the notes on the extreme left so for playing are an octave below what would be ideal for right handed play . although both scales play fine on the keyboard , learning through yousician is limited for all but the earliest lessons ( 1 handed ) may i suggest a method where the user plays the correct key and yousician sets it ' s scale up to suit the keyboard rather than requiring a keyboard to be in tune with the app . this would allow many more people to enjoy the app and learn to play before making the step up to a higher end keyboard . obviously this request is isolated to the keyboard options , as all other devices can be self tuned to match in with the app .
chris thür , ceo at yousician , speaking at slush 2016 . - - slush 2017 will take place in helsinki , finland on november 30–december 1 ! slush 2016 in pictures : urltoken website : urltoken facebook : urltoken twitter : urltoken instagram : urltoken linkedin : urltoken intro videos by : vau ( urltoken ) veli creative ( velicreative . fi ) in 2016 , slush brought together 17 , 500 attendees , including 2 , 336 startups , 1 , 146 investors and 610 journalists from 124 countries . people from more than half of the world’s countries traveled to the cold and dark helsinki , with the ambition of taking their business to the next level . slush is a non - profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs , investors , students and festival organizers . although slush has grown from a 300 - person event to become one of the leading events of its kind in the world , the philosophy behind it has remained the same : to help the next generation of great , world - conquering companies forward .
this version includes some technical improvements & fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
this version includes some technical improvements & fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
- say hi to a new default way to view all syllabus lessons . - the video recording feature now records videos in full screen . - your history collection has a new look and more information available . - some technical improvements & fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
- piano - find even more good songs in the top 100 collection . - some technical improvements & fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
- track your activity and set goals with the new active weeks screen & activity goal dial ! - we are now sending out weekly activity emails for even more stats highlights . - video feature is slowly rolling out to some users on ios 11 and above , be on the lookout for the record button ! - some other technical improvements & fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
- you can now control the mixer knobs with the rotation gesture - just like in real world . - mixer button will no longer be shown in pause menu without a connected audio device . - mixer amp switch button will now always work properly . - other technical improvements & fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
- volume control slider was added for in - app sound effects . - added badges that show how high up you are placed in the weekly challenges and leaderboards / n - some other technical improvements & fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
- chord transcriber for youtube songs has been improved and will now provide better chord transcriptions and more precise timing . - some other technical improvements & fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
- pre - song chord trainer is back for guitar and ukulele , allowing you to rehearse the chords before playing the song . - the in - app tuner is now even more accurate . - some other technical improvements & fixes . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
- bass syllabus gets extended to level 8 . - search functionality was improved - it should now work even faster . - the issues with sound recognition in the chord trainer exercises were fixed . - other bug fixes and improvements . want to know more ? check the full details on our forum : urltoken
requires ios 9 . 0 or later . compatible with iphone , ipad , and ipod touch .
with family sharing set up , up to six family members can use this app .
, has just announced it has received $ 1 . 4 ( €1 . 1 ) million in seed funding from
. the finnish company has already seen a great deal of successes for its innovative method for teaching the guitar , which provides instant feedback and gamified hooks to keep up motivation . wildchords counted 100 , 000 downloads in the first month of its release , and has racked up a
since leaving startupsauna . with the funding ovelin plans on strengthening their team and widening the number of platforms it is available on .
their free ipad game is played with a real acoustic or electric guitar , and uses the ipad’s microphone to evaluate users’ performance and provide feedback in real - time . the gameplay is fairly simple ; the user has to hypnotize animals by playing their favorite guitar chords while your character walks by them , inspired by the old fairy tale “pied piper of hamelin . ” i’ve gotten the chance to play wildchords and found it was merciless to my ( many ) mistakes , yet surprisingly addictive to start over and get each chord right . once the users are finished with the free content , additional content is offered as an in - app purchases .
for those of us without an ipad but with an old guitar in the closet , ovelin tells us that they are currently working on a cross - platform version of wildchords that should be able to run on “any device that can run skype” . the company will also be providing a focus on additional content for the guitar , saying , “mostly we will be working on making the game richer in terms of gaming , but also in terms of guitar techniques such as strumming patters and finger picking exercises . ”
the silicon valley based vc firm may have found a new source of dealflow for the investment– apparently one of true venture’s founders’ sons had already started to learn to play the guitar with wildchords . “we are really excited to work with true ventures , because they share our big vision of making the world more musical , ” says ceo and co - founder christoph thür .
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in 1992 , young helsinki programmers founded the demoparty , in which they produced visual presentations set to loud music and competed against each other through the cold nights . the event is still going strong , but its competitors have grown up and built gaming companies instead of demos - - developers such as rovio , remedy and grandcru all have founding members from the scene . but helsinki ' s tech boom stretches beyond gaming : in arctic startup , it has its own tech media , and the startup sauna incubator has boosted new businesses such < span class =
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its position in europe makes access to russian and chinese markets easier than for businesses in london and berlin .
the finnish government actively supports and invests in startups ( it funds startup sauna too ) , in an attempt to replicate the israeli startup boom .
chris and mikko kaipainen started taking guitar lessons at university , but didn ' t keep them up . they founded ovelin instead :
we realised that many of the existing products and self - learning concepts did not support in any way the most important area in the early phase of instrument learning - - the motivation to practise .
mikko says that 85 per cent of people who start an instrument give it up before they reach a reasonable standard . ovelin ' s first product , an ipad app called wildchords , is an attempt to make learning more fun for that 85 per cent - and turn them into real - life guitar heroes . in it , animals escape from the zoo : only by playing guitar chords can users entice them back in . wildchords had 100 , 000 downloads in its first month .
ovelin ' s first funding was a loan from tekes , a public fund in finland for financing research and development . this year , the 11 - strong company raised $ 1 . 4 million ( £900 , 000 ) in funding from true ventures . it will use that cash to expand its apps in 2012 to other instruments and platforms - - any device that can run skype , according to the founders . the ultimate aim ?
to make the world a more musical place .