JP2001282095A - Musical instrument playing education system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a musical instrument playing education system having bi-directionality to enable a student to receive the advises of a teacher while staying at home. SOLUTION: The systems composed of computer systems and the electronic musical instrument connected thereto are used for a teacher side and a student side and are respectively connected by the network. The teacher side reproduces the playing data of the student sent from the student side system and forms and transmits the advises to the student's playing. In the student side system, the model playing data transmitted from the teacher side system is reproduced, the playing guidance data is displayed on a display on the computer system and the student makes practicing while music data is displayed on the display. As a result, the musical instrument playing education system to enable the student to receive the adequate advises relating to the contents of practicing even if the teacher is apart may be realized.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a musical instrument for teaching and teaching musical instruments even when students and teachers are away from each other by using a dedicated controller using an information processing device or computer technology, an electronic musical instrument, and a network. It relates to a performance education system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the spread of wide-area networks such as the Internet, it has become possible to take music data such as MP3 into a personal computer and listen to it while staying at home. Conventional musical instruments are also being digitized, mainly with the piano, connected to a personal computer via a MIDI interface, and playing back MIDI data downloaded from the Internet, or converting one's own performance to MIDI data, and transmitting it via the Internet. It is becoming possible to send it to other personal computers.

Conventionally, when learning to play a musical instrument such as a piano, it is common practice to regularly receive guidance from a teacher in a piano classroom or at home. As a second method,
There is a method of purchasing training materials with a CD that are sold at bookstores and listening to the CD and studying independently. As a third method, there is a method in which a teaching material is received by using a home delivery service or the like by correspondence education and can be exchanged with a teacher.

[0004]

In the first method of attending a piano lesson, it is necessary to take time to take a lesson during the time when the piano lesson is open. There are time constraints. You also need to travel to the classroom location by transportation,
It takes time and money. For this reason, it is difficult to use such a classroom when a fixed time cannot be taken for work or the like. In the case of self-study using the training material with CD of the second method, since there is no way to receive advice on performance, it is easy for the beginner to master himself without noticing his own shortcomings. Often difficult. As for the third method, personal advice cannot be received in the conventional method in which teaching materials are sent unilaterally through distance learning using home delivery or the like. Even a system that can ask questions to the teacher is usually insufficient to include a system for recording students' own performances, and there is no consistent system. Also,
When sending a question or the like from the student side, it is necessary for the student to send a courier service or mail, which requires time and effort.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention uses a system composed of a computer system connected by a network and an electronic musical instrument connected to the computer system, and uses the system for music data and the music score. It has a database of teaching material data consisting of model performance data of the data and performance instruction data describing the points to be considered when performing.

The teacher system includes means for receiving and reproducing student performance data sent from the student system and creating and transmitting teacher advice on student performance.

The student system receives and reproduces the model performance data sent from the teacher system, displays the performance instruction data on a display on a computer system, and further displays the musical score data on a display. A musical instrument comprising: means for recording performance data obtained by the student himself playing the electronic musical instrument, transmitting the data to the teacher system, and displaying and reproducing advice sent from the teacher system. It is a performance education system.

The teacher system includes means for transmitting the teaching material content introduction data of the teaching material database to the student system, and means for processing costs and the like online in accordance with the attendance application data sent from the student system. The student system browses the teaching material content introduction data sent from the teacher system,
A means for transmitting enrollment application data is provided.

By providing the student system with means for directly reproducing the performance from the musical score data sent from the teacher system, the model performance data of the teacher system and the transmission means therefor may be omitted. It is possible.

The teacher system includes means for evaluating the student's performance data by software and automatically generating advice, so that the electronic musical instrument connected to the teacher's computer system and the student's performance data can be used. It is also possible to omit the reproduction means and the advice creation means by the teacher.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS According to the first aspect of the present invention, a first storage unit for storing at least music data;
A teacher-side system including a first input unit, a first display unit for displaying a score and a state, and a first information processing device including a first communication unit; and a second system for storing music data. A storage device, a second input means, a second display unit for displaying a score and a state, a second communication unit, and a second information processing device including an electronic musical instrument connection. Side system, the first communication unit of the teacher system, and a network connecting the second communication unit of the student system, the music score in the second storage unit of the student system And a database of teaching material data including performance instruction data and the like, which describes model performance data of the musical score data and notes when performing, and stores the musical score data stored in the second storage unit with the student. Table connected to the side system It is displayed on the parts, or to play in the electronic musical instrument or said second information processing apparatus.

The performance data input by the electronic musical instrument is transferred to the teacher system via the network, and the teacher system receives and reproduces the student performance data sent from the student system. Then, the teacher's advice on performance is input from the first input unit, and transmitted to the student system from the first communication unit.

The student system receives and reproduces the model performance data sent from the teacher system, displays the performance instruction data on a display on a computer system, and displays the musical score data on a display. A musical instrument comprising: means for recording performance data obtained by the student himself playing the electronic musical instrument, transmitting the data to the teacher system, and displaying and reproducing advice sent from the teacher system. This is a performance education system that allows students to know in real time what they are practicing even if the teacher is in a remote location. Becomes

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the student system, the musical score data is displayed on the second display unit, and the playing position is displayed as a player plays the electronic musical instrument. 5. The musical instrument according to claim 4, wherein the content of the musical score data is changed by scrolling or the like, and the advice is displayed together with the musical score at a location where the advice is attached. 6. This is a performance education system, and has an effect that a student can receive appropriate advice on a part having a performance problem and improvement while the student is practicing the performance.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided the evaluation means for comparing the timing of the performance data of the student and the intensity signal with the score data to evaluate a relative timing deviation and a deviation of the intensity. 2. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 1, wherein advice is automatically generated based on a result of the evaluation means, and advice on a basic pitch and rhythm of the music performance can be automatically generated. It has the action of:

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, in the teacher system, means for transmitting the teaching material content introduction data of the teaching material database to the student system, and a cost according to the enrollment application data sent from the student system. Musical instrument characterized by comprising means for processing online and the like, and the student system comprising means for browsing the teaching material content introduction data sent from the teacher system and transmitting enrollment application data. This is a performance education system, and has an effect that a student can easily select a desired instruction.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a musical instrument performance education system according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1
Is a teacher-side system in which a controller such as a CPU, a hard disk, and a memory are connected to an output device such as a display and an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse; It is composed of a musical instrument 12.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a student system, which is a computer system for the teacher such as the capacity of the hard disk and the performance of the CPU.
Although about one is not required, the basic configuration is the same.

The teacher system 1 and the student system 2 are in a communicable state via a network 3 such as the Internet. The teacher-side computer system 11 includes musical score data and model performance data for model performances of the music,
A teaching material database 111 including performance instruction data and the like that describes points to be noted when performing is stored. Reference numeral 112 denotes teaching material introduction software for introducing the contents of the teaching material database 111 to the student, which is usually sent to the student system 2 in the form of an Internet homepage. Reference numeral 113 denotes course receiving software for setting course contents and processing a course fee according to course application data sent from the student system 2. Reference numeral 114 denotes software for sending the teaching material data to the student system 2. 115 is software for receiving performance data sent by the student himself / herself from the student system 2;
The received performance data is temporarily recorded on the hard disk. The student performance data is sent to the electronic musical instrument 12 by the performance reproduction software 116 and reproduced as music. 1
Reference numeral 17 denotes a software in which the teacher listens to the student's performance to create advice for the performance and transmits the comment. Normal comments are described in text using a keyboard or the like. It is also possible to add a performance for advice from 12.

The student computer system 21 has the following software. Reference numeral 211 denotes software for browsing the homepage of the teaching material introduction sent from the teacher system 1, and reference numeral 212 denotes course application software for applying for a course. 213 is software for receiving teaching material data and advice data, and the received data is temporarily stored on a hard disk. The performance instruction data, musical score data, and advice data in the teaching material data are displayed on the display of the student computer system by the data display software 214. The teacher performance data included in the model performance data and the advice data in the teaching material data is sent to the electronic musical instrument 22 by the performance reproduction software 215 and reproduced as sound. 216 is the electronic musical instrument 2
The performance data is transmitted to the teacher system 1 by the performance transmission software 217.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the data contents of the teaching material database 111. A plurality of music data are stored in the teaching material database. Each song data includes song name, music genre, difficulty level, score data, model performance data,
Contains performance guidance data. The model performance data is performance data in which the music is played by a teacher-level expert. Further, the performance guidance data is data in which points to be noted when the student performs are described in a text format. The teaching material database 111 includes, in addition to the music data, course data in which each music is divided according to music genre and difficulty level, and the contents of a course selected by the student are described.

The flow of processing in the musical instrument performance education system will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The teacher system 1 introduces teaching materials on a homepage or the like (S301). The server that publishes this home page may be shared with the teacher system 1 or may be an independent server provided by an Internet provider. In addition to the introduction of music, various courses can be selected depending on the student's performance ability, the music genre he / she wants to learn, and the tuition is also displayed. The student system 2 browses the teaching materials (S302) and selects a desired course (S303). Further, an application for attendance is made (S304). In accordance with the contents of the enrollment application data sent from the student, the teacher system 1 accepts the enrollment (S305) and, at the same time, processes the cost of the enrollment fee (S306). Since a method of processing the cost using the Internet is generally a method using a credit card, a detailed description is omitted here. The first teaching material data is transmitted in accordance with the course content selected by the student (S307). The student system reproduces the model performance data from the sent teaching material data using an electronic musical instrument (S3).
08) In addition, the performance guidance data for the performance is displayed on the display (S309), and the student grasps the outline of the music and the points of the performance. The student refers to the musical score data displayed on the display (S310), plays the electronic musical instrument,
Practice playing repeatedly. When performance can be performed to some extent, performance data is recorded (S3
11) Also, by repeating the above, the best performance data is transmitted to the teacher system 1 (S312). The teacher system 1 receives and reproduces the performance data sent from the student system 2 (S313), and the teacher creates advice for the student's performance (S314). The advice is usually described in a text format, but in some cases, performance data for advice is recorded using an electronic musical instrument in the teacher system 1 (S315), and the advice data is written as advice data together with the advice described in text. Can be transmitted to the student system 2 (S316). The teacher determines whether or not to proceed to the next song based on the student's performance level (S317). The student system 2 displays the advice data sent from the teacher system 1 on the display or reproduces the performance (S31).
8) Helping to further improve performance ability. If it is advised to practice the same music again, the practice of the performance is performed again while considering the contents of the advice, and the transmission of the performance data to the teacher system 1 is repeated. When proceeding to the next song, the teaching material data of the new song is received from the teacher system 1 (S319).

(Embodiment 2) In FIG. 1, a student computer system is a general system in which an output device such as a display and input devices such as a keyboard and a mouse are connected to a control device including a CPU, a hard disk, a memory, and the like. Computer system. However, considering that a student performs while displaying a musical score on an electronic musical instrument, it is more convenient to use a dedicated controller. FIG. 4 shows an embodiment in which the student system 1 is configured using a dedicated controller. Controller 41
Is a computer system basically composed of a CPU, hard disk, memory, etc.
2 allows communication with the teacher system via the Internet. MIDI interface 4
3 is connected to the electronic musical instrument 22. The controller 41 is connected to a display 44 that is small enough to ride on the music stand of the electronic musical instrument 22 and displays musical score data and advice. Further, the controller 41 is provided with some input device 45 for moving a cursor displayed on the display, thereby selecting a menu screen. The input device may be one having an operation surface on the controller 41, one having an input unit using an infrared remote controller, or a touch panel operated on the display 44.

(Embodiment 3) FIG. 5 shows another embodiment. In the system shown in FIG. 1, musical score data and model performance data are prepared in the teaching material database 111, respectively. This is because by converting the performance of a teacher-level expert into data, a delicate musical expression that does not appear in the score is reproduced by the student system 6. However, beginners do not need such delicate expressions, and often demand that they can play music scores accurately. Also, some musical expression is possible depending on the device of the playback software. Teacher computer system 51 of FIG.
For this reason, the teaching material database 511 from which the model performance data is deleted for the above reason is used. In the student computer system 61, music is directly reproduced from the musical score data by the musical score data reproducing software 611. Regarding advice to students, in the case of a beginner's performance, it is also possible to automatically create an advice by evaluating the strength of sound and a subtle difference in timing of touching a keyboard by software. The automatic advice creation / transmission software 512 in the teacher's computer system 51 realizes such a function, and compares the score data with predetermined items such as rhythm disturbances, incorrect pitches, and how to apply dynamics from student performances. To evaluate and create advice. This eliminates the necessity of a teacher-teaching person in the teacher-side system, thereby realizing an automated system.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the teaching material database 511 in the teacher computer system 51. The model performance data is deleted from the contents of the teaching material database 111 shown in FIG.

[0027]

As described above, the present invention uses a computer system and an electronic musical instrument connected by a network, and uses a teaching system and a student system between a teacher system and a student system to provide teaching material data, student performance data, and student performance data. A musical instrument performance education system that enables teachers to learn musical instrument performance by exchanging teacher's advice on performance without being restricted by time or place while at home and receiving personal advice from the teacher. Things. As a result, even those who cannot take the time due to work etc. can easily take a musical instrument playing course, and even in a remote place where there is no classroom to teach appropriate musical instrument playing, it is possible to take a musical instrument playing course .

In a system for beginners, means for directly reproducing music from musical score data, input of student performances, and comparison of the performance contents with musical scores are used to automate evaluation and creation of advice by software. By providing the means, it is possible to construct an automated musical instrument performance education system that does not restrict the teacher in the teacher side system.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the contents of a teaching material database according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 shows a second example using the dedicated controller of the present invention.
External view of a student-side system showing the embodiment of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the contents of a teaching material database according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Teacher system in 1st Embodiment 2 Student system in 1st Embodiment 3 Network 5 Teacher system in 3rd Embodiment 6 Student system in 3rd Embodiment 11 Teacher in 1st Embodiment Side computer system 12 Electronic musical instrument of teacher system 21 Student computer system in first embodiment 22 Electronic musical instrument of student system 41 Controller 42 Network line 43 MIDI interface 44 Display 45 Cursor input device 51 Teacher in third embodiment Computer System 61 Student Computer System in Third Embodiment 111 Teaching Material Database in First Embodiment 112 Teaching Material Introduction Software 113 Course Reception Software 114 Teaching Material Data Transmission Software G 115 Performance data reception software 116 Performance reproduction software in the teacher computer system 117 Advice creation / transmission software 118 Performance recording software in the teacher computer system 211 Teaching material browsing software 212 Course application software 213 Teaching material data / advice data reception software 214 Data display software 215 Performance reproduction software in the student computer system 216 Performance recording software in the student computer system 217 Performance transmission software 511 Teaching material database in the third embodiment 512 Automatic advice creation / transmission software 611 Music score data reproduction software

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Claims (10)

[Claims] At least a first storage unit for storing music data, a first input unit, a first display unit for displaying a score or a state, and a first communication unit. A teacher-side system including an information processing device, a second storage unit that stores music data, a second input unit, a second display unit that displays a score and a state, and a second communication unit. Connecting a second information processing apparatus having an electronic musical instrument connection, the first communication unit of the teacher system, and the second communication unit of the student system. The second storage unit of the student-side system stores music data, model performance data of the music data, and teaching material data including performance instruction data describing notes on performing. The music stored in the second storage unit. The musical score data is displayed on a second display unit connected to the student system, or reproduced by the electronic musical instrument or the second information processing device. The performance data input by the electronic musical instrument is transferred to the teacher system via the network, and the teacher system receives and reproduces the student performance data sent from the student system, and The teacher's advice is input from the first input unit and transmitted to the student system from the first communication unit. The student-side system receives and reproduces the model performance data sent from the teacher-side system, displays the performance instruction data on a display on a computer system, and further displays the music score data on a display. A musical instrument performance education system comprising means for recording performance data of playing the electronic musical instrument itself, transmitting the data to the teacher system, and displaying and reproducing advice sent from the teacher system. . 2. The teacher-side system, wherein the advice is recorded in association with a specific position of the musical score, and transmitted to the student-side system.
Musical instrument performance education system described in. 3. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 2, wherein the teacher side system includes a voice input unit, and performs the advice by voice. 4. The system according to claim 2, wherein the teacher system includes a character input unit, and the advice is performed by character input, and the advice is displayed on a second display unit of the student system together with the musical score data. Musical instrument performance education system described in. 5. In the student system, the musical score data is displayed on the second display unit, and as the player plays the electronic musical instrument, the musical score data is scrolled so as to display the playing position. 5. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 4, wherein the display content is changed by a method, and the advice is displayed together with the musical score at a location where the advice is attached. 6. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 1, wherein the musical score data is in a MIDI format. 7. An evaluation means for comparing the timing of the performance data of the student and the intensity signal with the musical score data to evaluate a relative timing shift and an intensity shift is provided, and advice is provided based on the result of the evaluation means. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 1, wherein the musical instrument performance is automatically generated. 8. An evaluation means for evaluating a relative timing deviation and a relative deviation, wherein the level of the deviation can be set, and the advice is automatically generated based on the set level of the deviation. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 7, wherein 9. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 1, further comprising means for reproducing the musical score data sent from the teacher system on the student system in real time. 10. A means for transmitting the teaching material content introduction data of the teaching material database to the student system in the teacher system, and a means for processing costs and the like online in accordance with attendance application data sent from the student system. A musical instrument performance education system comprising: means for the student system to browse the teaching material content introduction data sent from the teacher system and to transmit enrollment application data.