31 results about "Tablature" patented technology

Methods and apparatus are provided that help users learn to play one or more instruments by employing simplified note recognition techniques, improved feedback, and a simplified keyboard tablature. In one aspect, users are encouraged to play specified notes within a specified time frame. The pitch and duration can be represented in any suitable manner, but are advantageously displayed together as a single icon (232A–232F). Preferably, the icon has an elongated shape in which the horizontal length correlates with duration of the note, and its vertical position on a display correlates with a pitch of the note. Notes can thus be represented by elongated lines, bars, ellipses, or even missiles or arrows. In another aspect, an improved musical tablature effectively clusters juxtaposed black keys (412A, 412C, 412E) and white keys (412B, 412D) on a display for easier visualization.

A system and method of enhancing guitar instruction based on Tablature Plus encoding of playing techniques within a MIDI file or other data structure, that may be rendered on an associated player application that provides multimedia output of the piece being played including a number of playing techniques. The system hardware for encoding the information includes string motion monitoring, and optionally a hand motion and finger positioning sensor, such as a data glove or a video motion capture system, for simultaneously registering the actions of the guitarist while playing the piece. The software comprises algorithms for determining note pitch and duration, and for extracting playing techniques from the data being collected. Multimedia player software is also described which renders a visual and audio output for the Tablature Plus encoded file, wherein the encoded playing techniques are represented within the display output. The system is adaptable to instruction for any instrument.

A method and system of teaching and/or studying music theory and for aiding the practice of musical instruments according to the integration of the color spectrum with notes of the circle of fifths and rearrangement of those notes into the musical chromatic scale. This rearrangement is accomplished by rotating either set of notes (spaced at whole-tone intervals) in the circle of fifths by 180 degrees. The musical chromatic scale arrangement of colors is then applied to various instruments. Diagrams representing the various note/color patterns as they appear on the various color-coded instruments are also provided. Scale and/or chord charts or diagrams for various instruments are also provided. The inventive color code is also applied to tablature, as well as to inventive forms of music notation.

An apparatus and method is disclosed for storing, editing, deleting and visually displaying personal information within a stringed musical instrument. A hand-held type computer (34) located in and forming a portion of the envelope or housing of the stringed musical instrument displays personal information to a user from a display screen (44). For example, a user can store, retrieve, edit and delete information such as complete song tablature, contact names, phone numbers, play lists for performance, schedules of shows etc. from within the instrument.

A self-teaching guitar and entertainment system for use by a user to learn how to play a song on a guitar includes a guitar having a plurality of strings, a fret board having a plurality of illuminatable portions, and a processor operable to illuminate the illuminatable portions of the fret board. The processor and the illuminatable portions are operable to selectively display illuminated fret numbers in the frets and adjacent the strings on the fret board corresponding to fret numbers on strings in a guitar tablature for playing the song.

An automated computing system and method for determining fingering of musical instruments from digitized scored music or tablature. The computerized automated finger finder system and method analyzes a musical composition and determines hand and/or fingering positional information such that the musical composition can be efficiently played on a musical instrument of choice with minimal hand movement. The method and computing system also provide alternate or secondary fingering choices such that the musician can play with a different tonal stylization or with greater or lesser ease depending on his skill level.

A music score with notes and signs in musical notation is displayed on the screen of a computer system using musical data representing events of notes and signs for a musical performance. The score is editable by moving a note from the exhibited position to another position on the screen. In case the moved note is connected with another note by a connective sign such as a slur, a slide, a bending (i.e. choking) and a hammering-on, the connective sign is also moved to the new position of the moved note. When the notes connected by the connective sign cannot be displayed on the same screen window, the connective sign is exhibited in a special fashion to indicate the associated connection. When the score is expressed in a tablature notation, appropriate modifications are employed to indicate correct manipulative operations for the instrument player.

A piano tablature includes tab keys indicating a new measure where the tab keys display a standard piano keyboard. Middle C on a piano keyboard is highlighted. A tab measure includes note indicators for a selected song. The first beat of a tab measure is indicated by the bottom horizontal line of the tab header and each horizontal line of the tab measure below the bottom horizontal line represents a new beat in the measure, the placement of the note indicator can be traced vertically to a tab header to a corresponding note. White keys are represented by placing a note indicator between 2 vertical lines in the tab measure and black keys are represented by placing a note indicator directly on a vertical line. A piano tab is read from top to bottom.

A new method of written music using a color coded keyboard to show the player which octave on the keyboard to use, which note in the octave to play and the finger of the hand used to play the note. The phrasing of the melody and chord progressions are indicated by the spacing of the notes in the tablature.

A karaoke system which displays and highlights musical notes and tablature, in addition to lyrics, as they are to be played or sung, with a view to helping an aspiring musician learn to play their instrument of choice. The system further utilizes a means to slow the tempo of the songs being played, so that the aspiring musician can master the notes and timing of the songs. The system can be patched to any TV system or displayed on the screen of the system itself The system contains an amp which allows for the plugging in of electric instruments and features a built in microphone. The system further allows a musician the option of a “full band” backup when the song is played, or the option of hearing only the selected instrument while playing along. Compact disks can be provided which would contain the songs, musical notes, lyrics and back up music thereon.

A system and method of teaching guitar lessons that includes a step of recreating a song at a reduced tempo from its original recording. Each note and/or chord of a particular measure of a song is played at the reduced tempo, then the measure is played and then the entire song section is played. The notes or chords are preferably verbally communicated using a tablature method that identifies the fingers using an index I (index finger), M (middle finger), R(ring finger) and P(pinkie finger). The lesson may be recorded on a medium such as tape, cassette, compact disc or made available for downloading via the Internet. At the end of the lesson a recording of the song is provided with the guitar portion is removed so a student may play the guitar portion of the song.

The invention relates to the field of pianos, in particular to a piano keyboard, a notation method and a music score. The piano keyboard comprises forty-four white keys (1) and forty-four black keys (2), each complete keyboard group comprises six white keys (1) and six black keys (2), and the white keys (1) and the black keys (2) in each complete keyboard group are sequentially and continuously staggered. According to the notation method, tablatures are used for notation, notes of the white keys (1) of the piano keyboard are notated among lines of the tablatures, notes of the black keys (2) ofthe piano keyboard are notated on the lines of the tablatures, and the white keys (1) and the black keys (2) are sequentially and continuously notated in a staggered manner. According to the keyboard, the notation method and the music score, any tones, syllables, syllable names and keyboard positioning can be in one-to-one correspondence, so that identification, notation and playing methods of different tones are simplified.

The invention relates to a computer auto control of machinery and electric products (keyboard instrument). The coordinate music note is a new tablature. It is a digital music note which can be stored at computer. XYS is an auto playing system used to change music information into piano keyboard stroking movement. It comprises computer order floppy disc, coordinate music note identifier and electromagnetic force stroking mechanism. The playing program compiling adopts three codes programming technique of key, location and singing. It also changes the hand drawing staff into computer operation of coordinate music note. It can make coordinate music note go to Internet by using computer keyboard. Download mode can be punched or be auto played by piano.

The invention provides a five-line tablature for tone-circle musical performance, which replaces note heads in the conventional staff with tone-circle identifiers, and the invention simultaneously provides a keyboard accessory consisting of seven coverage strips, which can perform tone-circle labeling on a keyboard so as to perform tone-circle musical performance conveniently by using the tablature. Through the reformation of the conventional staff, the invention provides the tablature which can not only define the position of each note during the musical performance clear in a music score to save the time of reading the staff and perform the musical performance quickly, but also embody the pitch position and mutual pitch interval relation of each note in music on the surface of the music score, so that people understand the recited music.

A method of explicit note-location for stringed instruments is disclosed. The invention synthesizes tablature notation and traditional classical staff notation for more fluid sight-reading of musical pieces. The invention makes explicit the note-locations-on-stringed-instruments of notated pitches. The invention makes possible for string instrument music the explicit denotations for pitch and the location of those pitches on a piano that is the traditional classical staff system of notation. The disclosed invention accomplishes this without obscuring any musical information notated in tablature or staff notation, while adding to staff notation what has been missing for 700-500+ years. The notated music itself becomes easier to read, because no inference or interpretation is required while reading music notated with the invention, as is necessary for use of the current state of the art music notations with stringed-instruments, either in tablature, the classical musical staff, or others.

A system for music transcription that includes: a musical instrument; a computer; a communication link between the musical instrument and the computer; and software residing on memory within the computer adapted to interpret audio sound from the musical instrument and transcript musical notes onto a visible music scale. The musical notes are transcribed onto a treble clef and a bass clef, where the musical instrument includes at least one of a guitar, keyboard, horn, woodwind or other musical instrument. A tablature may also be provided for a stringed instrument. The communication link includes a microphone on the computer, where the microphone transmits music to a processor for interpretation.