ES1295484U - BODY PERCUSSION DEVICE THROUGH COLORS (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Body percussion device using colors characterized in that it is made up of at least one set of discs (1, 2. 3, 4) of a different color, each one mounted on a series of adjustable bands (5, 6, 7, 8) that are fixed indistinctly on various parts of the body (9), said discs (1, 2, 3, 4) being accessible by the upper extremities so that the hands can strike them. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DESCRIPTION

Body percussion device using colors

Technical sector

The present invention falls within the sector of educational equipment, specifically in the field of devices for education and musical and psychomotor therapy.

Background of the invention

Music education is a pedagogical activity that involves various aspects of instruction, recreation, development and personality of children, including fun, discipline and creation that help their social, emotional and cognitive development. It also broadens cultural awareness, aids math learning, and boosts creative thinking and social and motor skills.

We understand by psychomotor education the set of methods and techniques that focus on the body and movement as means to achieve a better development of the personality and a better relationship with the environment.

Movement and music are closely linked and are born from the need for expression of human beings. Music is a good conductive thread for all psychomotor activities, so that musical rhythm, gestures, elementary dance, movement exercises, singing and dramatization contribute to the maturation of the child, the structuring of the scheme body and the development of their sensitivity, contributing to the socialization and integration of the group.

In addition, musical activity helps to improve psychomotor development and, therefore, to alleviate possible alterations in the body scheme and adjustment, as well as temporal-spatial orientation disorders.

The combination of music and psychomotricity allows, through the use of different musical elements, the person to become aware of their own body, taking advantage of all their bodily development, in such a way that, beyond the voice, they can discover their own body as a percussion instrument.

Body percussion is one more way of making and living music through the sounds and rhythms that we can generate with our bodies. When it comes to stimulating and exercising our neurocognitive and motor functions, using our body as an instrument makes this development possible, as well as acquiring the necessary skills for coordination, rhythmic sense, improvisation, knowledge of new musical concepts, the introduction of spelling conventional and unconventional with the body.

In our day to day we carry out all kinds of automated movements, but the fact of forcing our body to carry out those that we do not use frequently and that are new, must be accompanied by learning to be able to control them; we need the brain to adapt and habituate the body to be able to do it. Practice provides the control and precision required to execute those movements. In this way, through body percussion the brain is trained to decipher and memorize new sequences as a key to acquiring these skills.

The applications of body percussion are both educational and therapeutic, for example, as an aid in the treatment of people with psychomotor difficulties, whether due to pathologies related to aging or other origins.

On the other hand, in traditional music education, the study of music reading and writing is one of its main objectives, since students must know and use musical symbols in order to decipher and interpret a score. This requires a significant investment of time and practice, which can be frustrating for the performer.

Finding the color present in almost all the activities of the human being and demonstrating numerous studies its importance in the stimulation for the integral development of children, it is an alternative way to the traditional musical notation.

In this sense, a color code allows the development of a visual strategy to interpret a musical theme, thus solving some abstraction problems posed by traditional musical notation and allowing the student to start learning without having prior theoretical musical knowledge, facilitating initiation. early instrumental and active musical experience.

There are games and methodologies that allow the body to be used as percussion, but there are no devices that allow maximizing the advantages of this type of work in musical and psychomotor education using color codes, nor in combination with mobile devices and smartphones in order to use the benefits that provide and maximize the possibilities of expression.

There are antecedents of using the body itself to generate music through percussion on it, for example, in the form of costumes with sensitive elements incorporated that, when percussed, generate sounds. The objective of these devices is musical creation and not as educational or therapeutic support, so they are not designed to follow predefined patterns nor do they use color codes. In addition, they have the disadvantage of having wired connections that make their use difficult, and the support in a full suit makes it difficult to port and use.

It is for all these reasons that there is an unmet need in the market for devices that allow the body to be used as a percussion instrument, providing it with a rhythmic and melodic meaning through a color code to stimulate and exercise neurocognitive and motor functions while memory works. visual and auditory of the interpreter, and can be used as support in education and musical and psychomotor therapy, including the monitoring of predefined patterns thanks to the use of mobile devices and smartphones, having easy portability and minimizing wired connections.

Explanation of the invention

The object of the present invention is to obtain a body percussion device through colors that allows the body to be used as a percussion instrument, providing it with a rhythmic and melodic meaning through a color code to stimulate and exercise neurocognitive and motor functions while working. visual and auditory memory of the performer, and can be used as a support in music and psychomotor education and therapy, including following predefined patterns thanks to the use of mobile devices and smartphones, having easy portability and minimizing wired connections.

The colored body percussion device object of the present invention is made up of at least one set of discs of a different color, each one mounted on a series of adjustable bands that are fixed on various parts of the body, said discs being accessible through the upper extremities so that the hands can percussion on them.

The discs are fixed on the bands with a removable system, such as Velcro in a non-limiting way, so that they can be fixed in any position on the bands and in any quantity. In addition, since the bands are adjustable, they can be placed interchangeably on different parts of the body.

A typical execution is with six bands and eight discs: i) one band is fixed at chest height and two discs are attached, so that each of them is at the height of a pectoral, ii) another band is fixed to waist height with two discs also fixed, iii) two bands are each fixed to the legs at thigh level and each have a single disc fixed, and iv) two other bands are each fixed to the forearms and each has a single disk attached.

The body itself sounds different depending on where you hit (chest, waist or leg) and the colors serve as a guide to know where to hit by imitating a pattern, either imitating another person or following a represented color code on an external support, such as paper, a blackboard, a musical instrument, a mobile application, etc.

In this case, it is about using the body as a means to give it a rhythmic and melodic meaning through a color code, these will serve as a reference to connect the music with the body and the movements to be performed.

The discs can be equipped with tactile sensors each connected to a wireless communications module, such as by Bluetooth protocol in a non-limiting way, so that, when each sensor is struck by hand, each module sends a wireless signal to a mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet, equipped with a mobile application. Said mobile application emits a corresponding sound, which can be rhythmic or a musical note, so that different melodies can be played.

Likewise, the mobile application can reproduce patterns through a video in which colors appear on the screen with a cadence depending on the melody to be played, being followed by the person carrying the system of bands and records.

Each of the communication modules are powered by an individual battery, so there are no power cables in the device.

The discs can be equipped with a light indicator, for example, by means of LEDs, so that the mobile application gives an order to illuminate the corresponding disc to be struck at all times to follow the musical pattern played.

Instead of a mobile device, a different sound corresponding to each struck disc can be emitted by a speaker with an integrated sound generator, in this case the connection between the tactile sensors and the speaker can be through cables.

Throughout the description and claims, the word "comprises" and its variants are not intended to exclude other technical characteristics, components, additives or steps. For those skilled in the art, other objects, advantages and characteristics of the invention are will flow in part from the invention and in part from the practice of the invention. The following examples and drawings are provided by way of illustration and are not intended to limit the present invention. Furthermore, the invention covers all possible combinations of particular and preferred embodiments indicated herein.

Brief description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being made and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, a set of drawings is attached as an integral part of said description, where, with an illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented has been Next:

Figure 1 shows a front view of a preferred embodiment of the body percussion device using colors object of the present invention mounted on a body.

Figure 2 shows an axonometric view of a preferred embodiment of the body percussion device using colors object of the present invention.

Figure 3 shows a schematic view of a preferred embodiment of the body percussion device using colors object of the present invention.

Figure 4 shows a schematic view of another preferred embodiment of the body percussion device using colors object of the present invention.

Preferred embodiment of the invention

Using the numbering adopted in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this document to identify the elements that make up the body percussion device by means of colors of the present invention, we proceed to the description of said elements for two preferred embodiments of the invention. .

In a preferred embodiment, the colored body percussion device object of the present invention is made up of at least one set of discs (1, 2, 3, 4), each one of a different color, mounted on a series of adjustable bands ( 5, 6, 7, 8) that are fixed on various parts of the body (9), said discs (1, 2, 3, 4) being accessible by the upper extremities so that the hands can strike them.

The discs (1, 2, 3, 4) are fixed on the bands by means of Velcro in a preferred embodiment, so that they are removable and can be fixed in any position on the bands (5, 6, 7, 8) and at any amount. In addition, since the bands (5, 6, 7, 8) are adjustable, they can be positioned interchangeably on various parts of the body.

In a preferred embodiment, the device is made up of six bands and eight discs: i) a band (1) is fixed at chest height and two discs (5) are fixed, so that each of them is at chest height of a pectoral, ii) another band (2) is fixed at waist height, also having two discs (6) attached, iii) two bands (3) are each fixed to the legs at thigh height and carry a single disc (7) each is fixed, and iv) two other bands (4) are each fixed to the arms and each has a single disc (8) fixed.

In a preferred embodiment, the discs (1, 2, 3, 4) are equipped with tactile sensors (9) each connected to a communications module (10) by protocol Bluetooth, so that, when each sensor is struck by hand, each module (10) sends a wireless signal to a mobile device (11) equipped with a mobile application (12). Said mobile application emits a corresponding sound, which can be rhythmic or a musical note, so that different melodies can be played.

Likewise, the mobile device (11) can reproduce patterns in the mobile application (12) through a video in which colors appear on the screen with a cadence depending on the melody to be played, being followed by the person carrying the system. of bands and records.

In a preferred embodiment, each of the communication modules (10) are powered by an individual battery, so that there are no power cables in the device.

In a preferred embodiment, the discs (1, 2, 3, 4) are equipped with a light indicator (13) by means of LEDs, so that the mobile application (12) gives an order to illuminate the corresponding disc to be struck at all times to follow the musical pattern played.

In another preferred embodiment, instead of a mobile device, a different sound corresponding to each struck disc (1, 2, 3, 4) can be emitted by a speaker (14) with an integrated sound generator, which in this case may be the connection between the tactile sensors (9) and the speaker (14) by means of cables.

Claims (8)

1. Body percussion device using colors characterized in that it is made up of at least one set of discs (1, 2, 3, 4) of a different color, each mounted on a series of adjustable bands (5, 6, 7, 8) that are fixed indistinctly on various parts of the body (9), said discs (1, 2, 3, 4) being accessible by the upper extremities so that the hands can strike them. 2. Body percussion device using colors according to claim 1, where the discs (1, 2, 3, 4) are removable and are fixed on the bands (5, 6, 7, 8) at any point of said bands (5, 6, 7, 8) and in any quantity. 3. Body percussion device using colors according to claim 1 where there are six bands and eight discs: i) a band (1) is fixed at chest height and has two discs (5) attached, so that each of them it is at the height of a pectoral, ii) another band (2) is fixed at waist level, also having two discs (6) fixed, iii) two bands (3) are each fixed on the legs at the height of the thighs and have a single disc (7) attached to each one, iv) two other bands (4) each attached to the arms and each have a single disc (8) attached. 4. Body percussion device using colors according to claim 1, wherein the discs (1, 2, 3, 4) are equipped with tactile sensors (9) each connected to a wireless communications module (10), so that , when each sensor (9) is struck by hand, each module (10) sends a wireless signal to a mobile device (11) equipped with a mobile application (12) that emits a corresponding sound, which can be rhythmic or a musical note, so that different melodies can be played. 5. Body percussion device using colors according to claim 4, wherein the mobile device (11) can reproduce patterns in the mobile application (12) through a video in which colors appear on the screen with a cadence depending on the melody to play to be followed by the person carrying the system of bands and discs. 6. Body percussion device using colors according to claim 4, wherein each of the wireless communications modules (10) are powered by an individual battery, so that there are no power cables in the device. 7. Body percussion device using colors according to claim 4, wherein the discs (1, 2, 3, 4) are provided with a light indicator (13) by means of LEDs, so that the mobile application (12) gives an order to illuminate in each moment the corresponding disk to be struck to follow the musical pattern played. 8. Body percussion device using colors according to claim 1, wherein the discs (1, 2, 3, 4) are equipped with tactile sensors (9) connected to a speaker (14) with an integrated sound generator, so that said speaker (14) emits a different sound for each disc (1,2, 3, 4) when struck.