Performance Training Apparatus Intensity Cueing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing music performance training apparatuses do not allow users to anticipate the intensity of their performance operations before executing them, making it difficult for users to practice with awareness of the intended sound intensity.
Innovation Solution
A performance training apparatus that includes a database for sound information, an output device, and a processor to acquire and present intensity information ahead of sound generation timing, enabling users to know the intensity of their performance operations before execution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If intensity information is provided after performance execution for comparison, then users can identify differences in intensity, but users cannot know the intended intensity before executing each performance operation
Solution Approach 1:
The system displays intensity information before the user executes the performance operation, allowing the user to know the intended intensity in advance. This preliminary provision of information enables the user to adjust their performance accordingly, rather than only comparing after the fact.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback about the model performance's intensity through visual display and audible output before the user's performance. This feedback loop allows the user to understand what intensity is expected and adjust their performance to match the model, improving learning effectiveness.
2Ease of operation
If intensity information is presented before sound generation timing, then users can practice with awareness of intended intensity, but the system complexity increases due to timing coordination requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system retrieves and displays intensity information from the database before the sound generation timing occurs. By performing the information retrieval and display operations in advance, the system coordinates timing without adding significant complexity, as the database already contains the pre-organized intensity data.
Solution Approach 2:
The database serves as an intermediary that stores and provides intensity information to the display system. This intermediary component simplifies the timing coordination by decoupling the data storage from the real-time display requirements, allowing the system to manage timing complexity more efficiently.
Data Source
AI summary
For each sound of a model performance, performance information designating a sound generation timing and sound and intensity information indicative of an intensity of the sound are supplied. In accordance with a progression of a performance time and for each sound of the model performance, the intensity information is acquired ahead of the sound generation timing, and the intensity of the sound is presented based on the acquired intensity information. The intensity of the sound is presented in a visual or audible manner. In this way, a human player who receives sound-intensity-related performance operation training can know, through a visual display and/or an audible sound, an intensity of each sound of the model performance before the sound generation timing of the sound. As a result, the human player can practice the performance while being aware of the intensity of each sound of the model performance.