JP3729019B2 - Musical instrument education system - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a musical instrument performance education system that uses a dedicated controller that applies an information processing apparatus or computer technology, an electronic musical instrument, and a network to perform instruction and education of musical instruments even when students and teachers are away from each other. .
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, along with the widespread use of a wide area network such as the Internet, it has become possible to listen to music data such as MP3 by taking it into your personal computer while at home. Conventional musical instruments have also been digitized, mainly in the piano, and connected to a personal computer via a MIDI interface to play back MIDI data downloaded from the Internet, or convert your performance into MIDI data, via the Internet. It has become possible to send to other computers.
[0003]
Conventionally, in order to learn to play a musical instrument such as a piano, a method of regularly receiving instruction from a teacher in a piano classroom or at home is generally used. As a second method, there is a method in which a teaching material with a CD, which is sold at a bookstore or the like, is purchased and studied while listening to the CD. As a third method, there is a method in which a correspondence material can be received by using a courier service or the like by distance learning and exchange with a teacher.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
In the case of the method of attending a piano classroom, which is the first method, it is necessary to take time to take a class during the time when the piano classroom is open, and in many cases there are considerable time constraints. In addition, it is necessary to go to the classroom location using transportation, which requires time and money. Therefore, it is difficult to use these classrooms when you cannot get a certain time for work. If you are going to learn by yourself using the second method with practice material with CD, there is no means to receive advice on performance, so you will not be aware of your own faults and you will easily fall into your own position. Often difficult. Furthermore, as for the third method, personal advice cannot be received with a method in which teaching materials are unilaterally sent by correspondence education using home delivery or the like. Even methods that allow teachers to ask questions are usually inadequate to include the student's own recording system, and there is no consistent system. In addition, when sending a question or the like from the student side, it is necessary for the student himself to send out a courier or mail, which takes time and effort.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention uses a system comprising a computer system connected by a network and an electronic musical instrument connected to the computer system, and performs musical score data, model performance data of the musical score data, and performance. It has a database of teaching material data consisting of performance guidance data describing the points to note.
[0006]
The teacher's computer system (hereinafter referred to as the teacher's system) receives and plays back student performance data sent from the student's computer system (hereinafter referred to as the student's system), and creates teacher advice for student performance Means for transmitting.
[0007]
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 score data on the display. A musical instrument performance education system comprising means for recording performance data for playing the electronic musical instrument and transmitting the data to the teacher side system and means for displaying and reproducing advice sent from the teacher side system It is.
[0008]
The teacher side system comprises means for transmitting the teaching material content introduction data of the teaching material database to the student side system, and means for processing expenses etc. online according to the attendance application data sent from the student side system, The student side system includes means for browsing the teaching material content introduction data sent from the teacher side system and transmitting attendance application data.
[0009]
By providing the student side system with means for directly reproducing the performance from the musical score data sent from the teacher side system, it is possible to omit the model performance data and the transmission means of the teacher side system. .
[0010]
In the teacher system, the electronic musical instrument connected to the teacher computer system, the student performance data reproducing means, and means for evaluating the student performance data with software and automatically generating advice, It is also possible to omit the means for creating advice by the teacher.
[0011]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The invention according to claim 1 of the present invention includes at least a first storage unit that stores music data, a first input unit, a first display unit that displays a score and a state, and a first communication. A first computer system, 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 the provided, from a second computer system which the electronic musical instrument is connected, said first communication unit of the first computer system, a network connecting the second communication unit of the second computer system becomes the first computer system to said second computer system, sending the musical score data, a teaching material data composed of performance guidance data or the like that describes the notes on the model performance data and performance of the musical score data While, the second receiving performance data sent from the computer system, and playback, enter the advice for playing from the first input unit, the advice from the second of said first communication unit computer and sent to the system, the second computer system, the second storage unit, and stores the educational material data sent from said first computer system, the model performance data the electronic musical instrument or said second And playing back the data by playing the electronic musical instrument while displaying the musical performance instruction data on the second display unit and displaying the musical score data on the second display unit. , transmitting the performance data to the second said first computer system from the communication unit of the first computer Shi It is a musical instrument education system, characterized in that the display and playback of the advice sent from Temu.
[0012]
The performance data entered by the electronic musical instrument via the network is transferred to the first computer system, wherein the first computer system, receiving the musical data that will be sent from said second computer system, play, the luer advice that against the performance input from the first input unit, and transmits from the first communication unit to said second computer system.
[0013]
The second computer system receives and reproduces model performance data sent from the first computer system , and displays the performance instruction data on the second display unit on the second computer system. further wherein the musical score data and the recorded performance data played before Symbol electronic musical instrument while viewing the second display portion, and transmits to the first computer system, sent from said first computer system This is a musical instrument performance education system characterized by displaying and playing advice. It is possible to know the contents of the student's practice in real time even when the teacher is at a remote place, and give advice to the practice point and reply to the student This makes it possible to provide appropriate guidance to students.
[0014]
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the second computer system, the score data is displayed on the second display unit, and the performance location is displayed as a player plays the electronic musical instrument. 5. The musical instrument performance according to claim 4, wherein when the musical score data is displayed by changing the display contents by a method such as scrolling, and the musical score of the portion to which the advice is attached is displayed, the advice is also displayed together. is the education system, with the effect that in the middle of the student side is the practice of performance, and can receive the appropriate advice for improvement and part of the problem in the performance.
[0015]
According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, the first computer system compares performance data timing and strength signals from the second computer system with the musical score data, and detects relative timing shifts and strengths. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 1, further comprising evaluation means for evaluating deviation, and automatically generating advice based on a result of the evaluation means. The advice can be automatically generated.
[0016]
The invention according to claim 10 is the first computer system , wherein the first computer system transmits the teaching material content introduction data of the teaching material database to the second computer system , and the attendance received from the second computer system. Means for processing expenses etc. online according to the application data, wherein the second computer system browses the teaching material content introduction data sent from the first computer system and transmits the application data The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 1, characterized in that it has an effect that a desired instruction can be easily selected from a student side.
[0017]
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
[0018]
(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, which is connected to a teacher-side computer system 11 in which an output device such as a display and an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse are connected to a control device composed of a CPU, a hard disk, a memory and the like, and a MIDI interface or the like. An electronic musical instrument 12 is used.
[0019]
Reference numeral 2 denotes a student-side system, which is not necessary as much as the teacher-side computer system 11 such as hard disk capacity and CPU performance, but the basic configuration is the same.
[0020]
The teacher side system 1 and the student side system 2 are in a communicable state via a network 3 such as the Internet. The teacher-side computer system 11 stores a teaching material database 111 composed of sheet music data, model performance data for model performance of the music, performance guidance data describing points to be noted during performance, and the like. 112 is teaching material introduction software for introducing the contents of the teaching material database 111 to the student, and is usually sent to the student side system 2 in the form of an Internet homepage. Reference numeral 113 denotes attendance reception software for setting course contents and processing attendance fees in accordance with attendance application data sent from the student side system 2. Reference numeral 114 denotes software for sending the teaching material data to the student side system 2. Reference numeral 115 denotes software for receiving performance data performed by the student himself / herself sent from the student side system 2, and the received performance data is once 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. 117 is a software in which a teacher listens to a student's performance and creates advice for the performance, and a normal comment is described in text using a keyboard or the like. If necessary, an electronic musical instrument is recorded using the performance recording software 118. It is also possible to add a performance for advice from 12.
[0021]
The student side computer system 21 has the following software. 211 is software for browsing the homepage for teaching material introduction sent from the teacher side system 1, and 212 is attendance 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 in the hard disk. The performance instruction data, the score data, and the advice data in the teaching material data are displayed on the display of the student computer system by the data display software 214. The performance data of the teacher included in the model performance data and 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 software for recording performance data obtained by the student playing the electronic musical instrument 22, and the performance data is sent to the teacher-side system 1 by the performance transmission software 217.
[0022]
FIG. 2 shows an example of data contents of the teaching material database 111. The teaching material database contains multiple pieces of music data. Each piece of music data includes a song name, music genre, performance difficulty level, musical score data, model performance data, performance instruction data, and the like. The model performance data is performance data obtained by a teacher at the teacher level. The performance instruction data is data in which a point to be noted when a student performs is described in a text format. In addition to the above-described music data, the educational material database 111 includes course data describing the contents of courses selected by students by dividing each music piece by music genre and difficulty level.
[0023]
The flow of processing in the musical instrument performance education system will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The teacher side system 1 introduces teaching materials on a homepage or the like (S301). The server for publishing this home page may be shared with the teacher side 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 according to the performance of the student, the music genre that the student wants to learn, and the tuition fees are also displayed. The student side system 2 browses teaching materials (S302), and selects a course desired by the student (S303). Further, an application for attendance is made (S304). The teacher-side system 1 accepts the course according to the contents of the course application data sent from the student (S305) and simultaneously processes the cost of the course fee (S306). Since a method such as a credit card is generally used as a cost processing method using the Internet, a detailed description is omitted here. The first teaching material data is transmitted according to the course content selected by the student (S307). The student side system reproduces the model performance data from the teaching material data sent by the electronic musical instrument (S308), and also displays the performance instruction data at the time of performance on the display (S309). Grab the point. The student refers to the score data displayed on the display (S310), plays the electronic musical instrument, and repeats the practice to practice the performance. When the performance can be achieved to some extent, the performance data is recorded (S311), and the best performance data is transmitted to the teacher side system 1 by repeating this (S312). The teacher-side system 1 receives and reproduces performance data sent from the student-side system 2 (S313), and the teacher creates advice for the student's performance (S314). The advice is usually written in a text format. In some cases, performance data for advice is recorded using an electronic musical instrument in the teacher's system 1 (S315), and the advice data is written together with the advice written in text. Can be transmitted to the student side system 2 (S316). The teacher determines whether or not to proceed to the next song according to the performance level of the student (S317). The student side system 2 displays the advice data sent from the teacher side system 1 on the display or reproduces the performance (S318), which is used to further improve the performance ability. When it is advised to practice the same music again, the performance is practiced again while considering the content of the advice, and the performance data is repeatedly sent to the teacher system 1. When proceeding to the next music piece, the teaching material data of a new music piece is received from the teacher side system 1 (S319).
[0024]
(Embodiment 2)
In FIG. 1, the student computer system is a general computer system in which an output device such as a display and an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse are connected to a control device including a CPU, a hard disk, a memory, and the like. However, considering that a student performs while displaying a score on an electronic musical instrument, it is more convenient to use a dedicated controller. FIG. 4 shows an embodiment in which the student side system 1 is configured using a dedicated controller. The controller 41 is basically a computer system composed of a CPU, a hard disk, a memory and the like, and is in a state where it can communicate with the teacher side system via the Internet via the network line 42. Further, it is connected to the electronic musical instrument 22 by a MIDI interface 43 or the like. The controller 41 is connected to a display 44 that is about the size of a 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, and thereby selects a menu screen. The input device may be a device having an operation surface on the controller 41, a device having an input unit using an infrared remote controller, or a touch panel for operating the display 44.
[0025]
(Embodiment 3)
FIG. 5 shows another embodiment. In the system of FIG. 1, score data and exemplary performance data are prepared in the teaching material database 111. This is because the student-side system 6 reproduces a subtle musical expression that does not appear in the score by converting the performance of teacher-level masters into data. However, beginners do not need such subtle expressions, and often demand that they be able to perform music accurately. In addition, a certain amount of musical expression is possible depending on the device of the playback software. The teacher-side computer system 51 of FIG. 5 uses a teaching material database 511 from which model performance data has been deleted for the above reason. The student computer system 61 reproduces music directly from the score data by the score data playback software 611. As for advice to students, in the case of a beginner's performance, it is also possible to automatically create advice by evaluating the strength of the sound and a slight shift in the timing of touching the keyboard with software. The automatic advice creation / transmission software 512 in the teacher's computer system 51 realizes such a function. Compared with the musical score data on predetermined items such as rhythm disturbances, incorrect pitches, how to apply strength, etc. from student performance. To evaluate and create advice. This eliminates the need for a teacher to give advice to the teacher's system, and an automated system can be realized.
[0026]
FIG. 6 shows an example of the teaching material database 511 in the teacher side computer system 51. The model performance data is deleted from the contents of the teaching material database 111 shown in FIG.
[0027]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, the present invention uses a computer system and an electronic musical instrument connected via a network, and provides teaching material data, student performance data, and student advice between the teacher system and the student system. The present invention relates to a musical instrument performance education system that enables learning of musical instrument performance while receiving home advice without receiving time or place restrictions while staying at home. As a result, even those who can not take time due to work etc. can easily take a course of musical instrument performance, and also can take a course of musical instrument performance even in a remote place where there is no classroom for teaching appropriate musical instrument performance in the vicinity .
[0028]
In addition, the system for beginners includes means for reproducing music directly from musical score data and means for inputting evaluations of students and automating evaluation and advice creation by software by comparing the performance contents with musical scores. By doing so, it is possible to construct an automated musical instrument performance education system that does not restrain 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 an explanatory diagram of contents of a teaching material database in the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a processing procedure in the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an external view of a student system showing a second embodiment when the dedicated controller of the present invention is used. FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a third embodiment of the present invention. Explanatory drawing of contents of teaching material database in the third embodiment of the present invention [Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Teacher side system 2 in 1st Embodiment Student side system 3 in 1st Embodiment Network 5 Teacher side system 6 in 3rd Embodiment Student side system 11 in 3rd Embodiment Teacher in 1st Embodiment Side computer system 12 Teacher-side electronic musical instrument 21 Student-side computer system 22 in the first embodiment Student-side electronic musical instrument 41 Controller 42 Network line 43 MIDI interface 44 Display 45 Cursor input device 51 Teacher in the third embodiment Side computer system 61 Student side computer system 111 in the third embodiment Teaching material database 112 in the first embodiment Teaching material introduction software 113 Attendance reception software 114 Teaching data transmission software 115 Data reception software 116 Performance reproduction software 117 on teacher side computer system Advice creation / transmission software 118 Performance recording software 211 on teacher side computer system Teaching material browsing software 212 Course application software 213 Teaching data / advice data reception software 214 Data display software 215 Student side Performance reproduction software 216 in the computer system Performance recording software 217 in the student side computer system Performance transmission software 511 Teaching material database 512 in the third embodiment Automatic advice creation / transmission software 611 Musical score data reproduction software

Claims (10)

A first computer system comprising at least a first storage unit for storing music data, a first input unit, a first display unit for displaying a score and a state, and a first communication unit;
A second storage unit for storing music data, a second input means, a second display unit for displaying a musical score and status, and a second communication unit, a second of the electronic musical instrument is connected A computer system;
The first communication unit of the first computer system and a network connecting the second communication unit of the second computer system,
The first computer system transmits, to the second computer system, teaching material data including sheet music data, model performance data of the sheet music data, performance instruction data describing points to be noted when performing, and the like, The performance data sent from the second computer system is received and reproduced, advice on performance is input from the first input unit, and the advice is transmitted from the first communication unit to the second computer system. And
The second computer system stores the teaching material data sent from the first computer system in the second storage unit, and the model performance data is stored in the electronic musical instrument or the second computer system. reproduces, the display performance guidance data to said second display unit, and further records the performance data of the music data played to the electronic musical instrument while viewing the second display portion, the performance data It said second transmitted from the communication unit to the first computer system, musical instrument performance teaching system and displaying and reproducing advice sent from the first computer system. 2. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 1, wherein the first computer system records the advice in association with a specific position of the score and sends the advice to the second computer system. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 2, wherein the first computer system includes a voice input unit and performs the advice by voice. The said 1st computer system is provided with the character input part, The said advice is performed by character input, and it displays on the 2nd display part in said 2nd computer system with the said score data. The musical instrument performance education system described. In the second computer system , the score data is displayed on the second display unit, and the score data is displayed by a method such as scrolling so that the performance location is displayed as a player plays the electronic musical instrument. 5. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 4, wherein when the content is changed and the score of the part to which the advice is attached is displayed, the advice is also displayed together. 2. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 1, wherein the musical score data is in a MIDI format. The first computer system is provided with evaluation means for comparing the timing and strength signal of performance data from the second computer system with the score data and evaluating a relative timing shift and a strength shift. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 1, wherein advice is automatically generated based on a result of the evaluation means. 8. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 7, wherein the evaluation means can set the level of deviation and automatically generates the advice based on the set level of deviation. 2. The musical instrument performance education system according to claim 1, further comprising means for reproducing the musical score data sent from the first computer system in real time on the second computer system. The first computer system performs online processing of expenses and the like in accordance with means for transmitting teaching material content introduction data in the teaching material database to the second computer system and attendance application data sent from the second computer system. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second computer system browses the teaching material content introduction data sent from the first computer system and transmits attendance application data . Musical instrument performance education system.

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