Sheet Music Region Highlighting for Targeted Practice Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional music practice feedback systems are unable to identify and highlight difficult regions of sheet music, requiring users to focus practice efforts without guidance, as they only label notes and do not provide information on performance issues specific to actual musical pieces.
Innovation Solution
A music practice feedback system that includes a displaying device to split sheet music into regions, a collecting device to gather information on player performance, and a display changing device to visually highlight challenging areas based on collected data, allowing users to focus practice on difficult sections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional note extraction techniques are used to visualize music, then the system can display basic note information, but it cannot identify or highlight difficult regions of sheet music
Solution Approach 1:
The sheet music is divided into multiple regions, and the system collects performance information for each region separately. This segmentation allows the system to identify difficult regions without overwhelming complexity, as each region can be analyzed independently and aggregated to provide focused feedback on problematic areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism that collects performance information from multiple players across different regions of sheet music. This feedback loop enables the system to identify which regions are difficult for users and dynamically adjust visualizations to highlight those areas, thereby recovering lost performance information through structured data collection.
2Ease of operation
If the system provides detailed performance feedback for entire sheet music, then users can identify difficult areas, but the device complexity increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and focuses only on difficult regions of the sheet music rather than analyzing the entire piece. By taking out the problematic areas and presenting them separately for focused practice, the system provides effective guidance without requiring complex analysis of all musical regions, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining ease of operation.
3Loss of information
If conventional techniques label all notes and intervals, then complete music information is displayed, but no guidance is provided on where to focus practice efforts
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different visualization qualities to different regions of the sheet music based on their difficulty. Difficult regions receive enhanced visual treatment (highlighting, color changes, or other visual cues) while easier regions maintain standard display. This local differentiation provides practice guidance information without requiring complete re-labeling of all notes, thereby improving learning efficiency while minimizing information loss.
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AI summary
A music practice feedback method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium including a displaying device configured to display sheet music, a collecting device configured to collect information related to a playing of the sheet music by a plurality of players, and a display changing device configured to change a display of the sheet music based on said collected information.