{"id":420,"date":"2018-01-04T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T05:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2018-06-27T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:23:22","slug":"a-sign-of-qactus-as-not-a-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/archives\/420","title":{"rendered":"A sign of Qactus as not a toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"outline__1\">About the solidity of strings<\/h2>\n<p>Qactus makes some strings to be a little harder to play,\u00a0because it&#8217;s meant to take beginners to the next stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-423\" src=\"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/after3ways.png\" alt=\"\u201cQactus\" width=\"1800\" height=\"910\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lacking the finger power against strings to push can make it beginners give up.<\/p>\n<p>They need to prepare for it <strong>before graduating of Qactus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It would not be so hard for them because their burden has already decreased by Qactus function.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"outline__2\">How hard are those strings?<\/h2>\n<p>Actually study shows that these strings on Qactus are the same as normal guitars even if you feel like it\u2019s much harder than normal.<\/p>\n<p>So players <strong>need to overcome this hardness<\/strong> of strings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However especially intermediate players would think that it\u2019s harder than normal even though it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>Because they <strong>naturally expect that the 3rd fret position is much softer<\/strong> than the first fret.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"outline__3\">Intermediate players would not suit for Qactus<\/h2>\n<p>Some intermediate players would adjust some setting of a guitar to be easier to play like <strong>NUT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The lower the easier to play, so some players <strong>adjust a nut lower<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of guitars would not suit well for Qactus. It\u2019s true, Qactus makes this kind of guitar strings to change into harder.<\/p>\n<p>The lower the harder to play, if the guitar is on Qactus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However it doesn\u2019t matter for beginners, because <strong>they even don\u2019t know how to adjust to it,<\/strong> so it\u2019s impossible for them.<\/p>\n<p>They need to overcome the hardness, because they are going to improve.<br \/>\nThis includes <strong>the first fret hardness of strings, which is where more than half of the beginners give up at<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Since a total of 50 to 70 kg of force is applied to the stretched, metal strings on an acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n<p>If they don\u2019t put the proper pressure on the strings firmly in the form of using only 1 or 2 fingers while using Qactus, they will definitely give up at the next stage when they try to improve without Qactus.<\/p>\n<p> Qactus is not a &#8220;<strong>toy that makes the guitar easier<\/strong>&#8220;, but a &#8220;<strong>tool to make all beginners move to the next stage<\/strong>&#8221; so please continue practicing with fun and feel the stress necessary for your progress.<\/p>\n<p>\n Qactus has a mechanism in which the strings are slightly harder to push in order for users to learn how strong they need to push strings for playing the guitar properly.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same logic used for training with baseball a bat . <strong>It is heavier than an ordinary one. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"outline__4\">Requires the stress<\/h2>\n<p>Instrument is <strong>fun because it isn\u2019t easy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There are some stresses which also require for improving.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not only music things, right?<\/p>\n<p>The most important is <strong>how do they deal with the stress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Qactus makes them fun even if their fingers are still on the training against the harder strings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I could design Qactus as a cheating toy that makes the strings to become much softer like a normal guitar but <strong>I didn\u2019t<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Because <strong>Qactus is not a cheating toy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a tool to assist frustrated beginners to the next stage safely.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bgBox\">Voice of the developer<br \/>\n[Playing skill to change some steel wires and a chunk of wood into organisms]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/archives\/1702\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/archives\/1702<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"bgBox\">Voice of the developer<br \/>\n[What is the benefit of practicing with only one finger?]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/archives\/1539\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/archives\/1539<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the solidity of strings Qactus makes some strings to be a little harder to play,\u00a0because it&#8217;s meant to take beginners to the next stage. &nbsp; Lacking the finger power against strings to  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[73,72,19,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qactus.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}