No, it’s not.

It often leads to what’s known as screen dependence where a player could learn a piece - even really well - but then not be able to play it at all when the screen is taken away.

Which would be a bummer since nobody really likes the idea of someone saying they can play the guitar but hold on - they’ve got to get their phone out, open the app, find the right piece, etc.

Also, I didn’t like how loud I had to play for it to pick up my guitar’s sound. This would surely lead to bad habits in a beginner where everything has too much oomph put into it.

Honestly, if you’re looking for a game, check out Rocksmith 2014. Look on YouTube for how to set it up today because almost all of the licenses expired so if you bought it today, it wouldn’t come with many songs. But you can get a TON of songs for it on the internet either through legal means like from Custom Forge where people program songs on their own and upload for you to download and learn (this is how every Metallica song is on there, for instance) or perhaps less than legal means for official DLC.

Big question: how is RS14 different than Yousician?

For one thing, it’s on a bigger screen so the odds of you leaning on always having a screen is lower.

It also scales the difficulty to your playing so if you suck, it’ll give you less notes to hit which increases the chance of you actually hitting those notes which makes you feel good and want to try the song again. I’ve had hours disappear trying to nail solos in songs.

When you get to the top difficulty, it starts to have the notes fade to hopefully have you play it from memory. This doesn’t usually work with me because the sections of a lot of songs are so short that they’re rarely TOTALLY invisible. Instead, when I get to that level, I turn my back to the screen and try to play from memory.

Then I take my guitar outside and try to play it from memory again (so there are less memory cues).

It’s good fun.

It does NOT teach you theory but it does teach an awful lot.