JP2000242161A - Method for training keyboard instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable even persons of middle or old age who cannot read music to easily play a keyboard instrument by allowing the persons to play the keyboard instrument in compliance with fingering becoming an example while viewing a video projected on a monitor. SOLUTION: The fingering to be an example to play the keyboard instrument of an advanced player recorded on a video tape is projected on a television placed on a piano 1 and is projected on a first mirror installed behind a trainee (a beginner). The video is projected on a second mirror M2 which is the monitor 4 placed in front of the keyboard 3 of the piano 1. When the beginner is going to start training, the advanced player plays the keyboard instrument at a speed considerably lower than the standard speed of music, for example, a speed of about 20% and the fingering thereof is previously recorded at the video tape. The beginner plays the piano 1 by viewing the codes attached to the keys 5 of the piano 1 while viewing the video projected on the monitor 4.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a practice method and apparatus for a beginner to easily play a keyboard instrument such as a piano, an organ, a harpsichord, and a synthesizer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At one time, emotional education was enjoyed, and many families with children purchased a piano and learned the piano for children. However, children who practiced the piano tended to give up, or stopped training to study for further education in the upper grades. At present, if a piano is purchased for a child but the child does not play it, it becomes a so-called "useless long" and is merely a decoration.

[0003] It is wasteful to simply put a piano placed in such a state as a decoration, or a middle-aged parent who can not afford to take care of his child will play on the piano. I think it's not easy to play the piano at the piano. This is because many middle-aged people have never touched an instrument and have no idea how to read music.

[0004] In addition, rehabilitation is performed for those suffering from cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction, etc., whose limbs are left as a result of their sequelae. In the conventional rehabilitation, a small object such as a hajiki or bidama is transferred from one to the other. There are many simple movements. Therefore, for those who undergo rehabilitation, those exercises have a poor sense of accomplishment and do not last long, so that the effects of rehabilitation did not appear sufficiently.

However, the use of musical instruments for rehabilitation is the best function recovery means. If a person with a disability can play the instrument even a little, it will be more interesting, last longer and enjoyable rehabilitation. Experts agree that rehabilitation is best accomplished with a finger-operated keyboard instrument. However, many people suffering from cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction are middle-aged and elderly, and as described above, have difficulty in playing musical instruments and reading musical scores. Although it is known that keyboard instruments are excellent for rehabilitation, it has been considered that rehabilitation using keyboard instruments is difficult for people with limb disorders.

Hitherto, as a keyboard instrument for beginners, there has been a keyboard instrument in which a light flashes on a key as the music progresses and the beginner plays a key in accordance with the flashing. A keyboard instrument (called a flashing instrument) that lights up on this key outputs a floppy disk or magnetic tape to which a practice song has been input in advance by means of the electrical circuit of the instrument, so that the key to be played next as the song progresses The light flashes.

[0007]

However, no matter how much a beginner practiced with a blinking musical instrument, he could not perform accurately because he made many mistakes and could not get on the rhythm. Also, beginners who practiced with flashing instruments could not play at all even if they tried to play on non-flashing general instruments, because there was no flashing to hold their fingers. Moreover, the conventional blinking musical instrument cannot practice memorization even if it is practiced many times and it takes a long time to learn it. The present invention is intended not only for middle-aged people who have never touched musical instruments in the past and who cannot read music at all, and for people with disabilities in their limbs to play keyboard instruments easily and can perform accurate music. Another object of the present invention is to provide a keyboard musical instrument training method and a keyboard musical instrument training apparatus that can be easily performed.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present inventor has conducted intensive studies on the causes of the inability of beginners to perform accurately or to memorize easily with a conventional blinking musical instrument. It turned out that it was not playing in the In other words, an advanced keyboard instrument can play a song smoothly when you place your finger on a key on the keyboard,
The reason for this is that the next finger to be played is a finger that is next to the one you are now approaching and is waiting. This fingering cannot be created by self-study, but is originally learned directly from advanced users. Therefore, the present inventor has completed the present invention by focusing on the fact that even beginners can perform smoothly if they can use the same fingers as advanced users.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, exemplary fingering for playing a keyboard instrument is recorded on a videotape, and the videotape image is projected on a monitor installed in front of the keyboard, and a beginner is projected on the monitor. This is a method of practicing a keyboard instrument, characterized by playing a keyboard instrument while following a typical image while watching a captured image.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a key of a keyboard instrument played by an exemplary fingering is provided with a sign, and the exemplary fingering of the keyboard instrument is recorded on a video tape. The video of the videotape is projected on a monitor placed in front of the keyboard, and the beginner can see the video projected on the monitor and imitate the typical fingering while playing the model with the same sign as the keyboard instrument. This is a method of practicing a keyboard instrument, characterized by playing the attached keyboard instrument.

[0011] A third invention of the present invention is a videotape recording an exemplary fingering to be played on a keyboard instrument; an exemplary videophone set in front of a keyboard of a practice keyboard instrument and reproduced on a videotape. An apparatus for practicing a keyboard instrument, comprising: a monitor for displaying an image of fingering; a keyboard instrument for practice;

[0012] A fourth invention of the present invention is a videotape recording an exemplary fingering to be played on a keyboard instrument with a sign attached to a key; a videotape installed in front of a keyboard of a practice keyboard instrument. A keyboard for displaying an image of an exemplary fingering played on the keyboard; a keyboard for practice assigned the same reference numeral as the keyboard instrument played by the exemplary fingering; Practice device.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the present invention, a videotape recording exemplary fingering of a keyboard instrument includes a fingering in a state where an advanced keyboard player is actually playing a keyboard instrument. Or the movement of the keyboard and fingers in computer graphics.

In the practice method of the present invention, first, an exemplary fingering for playing a keyboard instrument is recorded on a video tape. At this time, the performance speed is two times the standard speed of the practice music.
0% to 100%. In other words, beginners who have just started practicing, even if fingering at standard speed is projected on the monitor,
I can't keep up with that speed. Therefore, when a beginner starts practice, an advanced player plays a keyboard instrument at a speed much lower than the standard speed of the song, for example, about 20%, and records it on videotape. If you are recording an exemplary fingering on a videotape on a videotape, using a 120 minute videotape, the first 30 minutes will be 30% of the song's standard speed, the next 30 minutes will be 50%, Next 3
It is good to record the performance performed at 70% several times in the 0 minute, and the performance performed at the standard speed of 100% multiple times in the last 30 minutes. If the performance speed is gradually increased in this manner, the performance speed can be appropriately selected by appropriately selecting the performance speed that suits one's progress.

When a typical fingering is recorded on a videotape, if a metronome sound is also recorded, a sense of rhythm and a sense of tempo can be developed.

For recording a performance with a change in speed on a video tape, a performance at a standard speed is recorded, and the speed can be adjusted by changing the feed speed of the video tape on the VCR. When the feed speed changes, the pitch also changes, and the pitch does not match the pitch of a keyboard instrument played by a beginner, making the player feel uncomfortable. However, if the change in pitch can be electrically corrected, the typical performance to be recorded may be only one standard speed.

The keyboard musical instrument training apparatus of the present invention projects a video tape on which a typical fingering of a keyboard instrument is recorded on a monitor installed in front of the keyboard. And it is convenient to handle. When using a mirror as a monitor like this,
It is better to use two mirrors as shown. This is a mirror,
In other words, if a video projected from a television playing a video tape is viewed directly with only a mirror installed in front of the keyboard, the video is reversed, and the left and right are reversed. Normally, the left side of the keyboard instrument is bass and the right side is treble, but once reflected in a mirror, the left side of the keyboard instrument is treble and the right side is bass. is there. Also, in the case of using the right hand with fingers, the left is the thumb and the right is the little finger. However, in the image projected on the mirror, the left is the little finger and the right is the thumb. Therefore, in order to restore the normal state, two mirrors may be used as shown in FIG.

In FIG. 4, an exemplary fingering for playing a keyboard instrument played by an advanced player recorded on a video tape (not shown) is projected on a television 2 placed on an upright piano 1 (P), and is shown in FIG. It is projected on the first mirror M1 installed behind the trainee (beginner) who does not. Then, the image projected on the mirror M1 is projected on the second mirror M2 which is the monitor 4 placed in front of the keyboard 3 of the piano 1 (P). In other words, the following is achieved by projecting the image projected on the television 2 on two mirrors. TV (normal video) → 1st mirror M1 (reversed video) →
Second mirror M2 of monitor 4 (normal image)

When a mirror is used as a monitor in the present invention, it is possible to use only one monitor mirror. In this case, if the image projected on the television is normal, the left and right sides are reversed images with one mirror as described above. Therefore, if only one mirror is used, the image projected on the television should be an inverted image in which the left and right are reversed. In order to convert the image projected on the television into an inverted image, an inverted image can be easily obtained by performing image processing when editing a video tape.

FIG. 5 shows a practice apparatus using only one mirror. A mirror M which is a monitor 4 is installed in front of a keyboard 3 of the upright piano 1 (P), and a television 2 installed behind a trainer (beginner) (not shown) is a model recorded on a video tape. A typical piano fingering is projected, and is projected on the mirror M of the monitor 4. In this case, the video that is not projected on the television is an inverted video that has been subjected to image processing in advance. The inverted video projected on the television 2 becomes a normal video when projected on the mirror M.

When the television is placed directly in front of the keyboard, the keyboard instrument can be one having no rising part like a synthesizer. FIG. 6 shows the practice keyboard instrument 1 as an synthesizer S. The synthesizer S does not have a high rising portion in front of the keyboard 3. Therefore, in the synthesizer, even if the television 2 is directly installed in front of the keyboard 3, the trainee can easily see the television 2 and the keyboard 3.

When a television monitor is directly placed on a keyboard instrument having a rising portion in front of the keyboard such as a piano or an organ, a monitor such as a liquid crystal having a thin cathode ray tube is suitable.

In the present invention, any monitor that displays an image reproduced on a video tape can be employed. In addition to the mirror and the liquid crystal, a projection screen for projecting a reproduced video tape may be used.

If a typical tune takes several octaves and cannot display several octaves on one screen of the monitor, the video tape is divided into upper and lower parts as shown in FIG. You may make it project in a continuous state.

In the present invention, the keys of exemplary keyboard instruments for performance recorded on videotape are marked with symbols, and the keys of keyboard instruments played by beginners for practice are also exemplary keyboard instruments for performance. By assigning the same reference number to the key of the first key, the beginner can play the same key as the exemplary key for performance without hesitation. That is, in a keyboard instrument, a white key and a black key are regularly arranged for each octave, but it is difficult for a beginner to understand the position of the key only with the white key and the black key. Therefore, if you attach a sign to the key of the exemplary keyboard and the same sign as the key of the keyboard instrument for practice, you can not understand the positional relationship between the white key and the black key. Even beginners can easily find the key to play and play the same key as the advanced player.

The keys to be signed may be attached to all of the white key and the black key. However, if the white key has a sign, the position of a black key having a smaller number than the white key can be easily determined. , May be assigned only to the white key. As shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, the key 5 is assigned to the key 5 of the keyboard 3,
, Mi =, fa =, so =, la =, si =, or for those who studied music at school in the old days, de = ha, les = ni, mi = ho, fa Katakana such as ＝= he, ＝= ト, シ = ロ, シ = ロ may be added, or de, そ の ま ま, 、, ミ, 、, 、, 、, そ の ま ま may be used as they are.

The beginner should start with only one melody with one hand to get used to the keyboard instrument. In this case, the keyboard to be used is at most about one octave because the range is not very wide. Therefore, to practice only the melody 3
The same code may be assigned to the octave area. At this time, the beginner plays the keyboard instrument following the typical fingering displayed on the monitor, but there is a risk of playing keys with different octaves, so different colors are used for each octave or different marks as shown in FIG. If you keep it, mistakes will be reduced.

[0028]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a partially enlarged perspective view illustrating a practice method of the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a keyboard of a keyboard instrument used in the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, a monitor 4 is provided in front of a keyboard 2 of a piano P which is a practice keyboard instrument 1 played by a beginner.
, A second mirror M2. The videotape contains in advance the fingering of a keyboard instrument played by an expert, and this videotape is being played on the television 2. The video projected on the television is a first mirror M
1 and the image is projected on the second mirror M2 of the monitor 4 as shown in FIG. That is, the image projected on the mirror M2 is a fingering played by an advanced person. A beginner looks at the image displayed on the second mirror M2 of the monitor 4 and looks at the code assigned to the key 5 of the piano P for practice and plays it.

The present inventor was 55 years old, who was 55 years old, and had never played a keyboard instrument and could not read music at all. At home of the inventor, there is a piano purchased for children's emotional education,
Probably, the child grew up and stopped playing the piano. Therefore, when the inventor practiced the piano using the above-described practice apparatus and practice method, the first time he practiced the tune "East of Eden" at a speed of 30% of the speed of the woodwork for one hour a day, he could play in three days. And then the standard speed of 5
At 0%, I could play in 3 days after 1 hour of practice. One week later, he could play not only at 100% speed, that is, standard speed, but also with complete memorization without having to show his expert fingering on the monitor.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, even a person who has never touched a keyboard instrument and cannot read a musical score at all has been projected on a monitor installed in front of the keyboard. You can play the keyboard keys exactly by playing the practice keyboard instrument according to the model fingering that was used, and the fingering should be played next because the fingering is the same as the model fingering You can easily memorize the key by remembering the key. Therefore, the present invention has an excellent effect that it is enjoyable not only for middle-aged people but also for people with limb disabilities and can easily get used to the keyboard instrument.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a practice method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged plan view of a keyboard instrument used in the practice method of the present invention.

Fig. 3 Image of a monitor showing a keyboard instrument divided into upper and lower parts

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the practice apparatus of the present invention using two mirrors.

FIG. 5 shows an embodiment of the practice apparatus of the present invention using one mirror.

FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of the practice apparatus of the present invention in which a television is directly installed on a synthesizer.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 keyboard instrument 2 television 3 keyboard 4 monitor 5 keys

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. An exemplary fingering for playing a keyboard instrument is recorded on a videotape, and an image of the videotape is projected on a monitor installed in front of the keyboard, and a beginner can watch the image projected on the monitor. A method for practicing a keyboard instrument, which is characterized by playing a keyboard instrument in accordance with an exemplary fingering. 2. A key of a keyboard instrument to be played by an exemplary fingering is provided with a sign, and an exemplary fingering to play the keyboard instrument is recorded on a videotape, and a video of the videotape is recorded. The beginner shows the monitor on the monitor installed in front of the keyboard, and the beginner looks at the image projected on the monitor and imitates the exemplary fingering and plays the keyboard instrument with the same sign as the keyboard instrument played with the exemplary fingering. Practice method of keyboard instrument characterized by playing. 3. The practice of a keyboard instrument according to claim 1, wherein an exemplary fingering for playing a keyboard instrument recorded on the videotape is a fingering played by an advanced player of the keyboard instrument. Method. 4. A keyboard instrument according to claim 1, wherein an exemplary fingering for playing a keyboard instrument recorded on said videotape is a fingering for playing a keyboard instrument made by computer graphic. Practice method. 5. The performance speed of a typical fingering recorded on a videotape is 20% to 100% of a standard performance speed of a tune to be practiced. Practice method of keyboard instruments described in 1 and 2. 6. A videotape recording an exemplary fingering to be played on a keyboard instrument; an image of an exemplary fingering played on a videotape is provided in front of a keyboard of a practice keyboard instrument. A keyboard musical instrument training device, comprising: a monitor; a keyboard musical instrument for practice; 7. A videotape recording an exemplary fingering to be played on a keyboard instrument with a key attached to the key; an exemplary playing tape mounted on the keyboard of a practice keyboard instrument and reproduced on a videotape. A keyboard musical instrument training apparatus, comprising: a monitor that displays an image of a proper fingering; and a training keyboard instrument that is assigned the same reference numeral as the keyboard instrument played by the exemplary fingering. 8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the monitor is a mirror for displaying a television playing a video tape. 9. The training apparatus for a keyboard instrument according to claim 6, wherein the monitor is a television for playing a video tape. 10. The training apparatus for a keyboard instrument according to claim 6, wherein the monitor is a projection screen for projecting a video reproduced as a video.