JPH0546073A - Practice assistance device for musical instrument performance - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of musical instrument practice by easily understanding a score and the way of playing a musical instrument at the same time in synchronism with the melody. CONSTITUTION:This device is equipped with a score display part which displays the score, a musical instrument performance part which displays the musical instrument performance state of a player, an optical disk 11 where a video signal including a mark part indicating a note position on the score during performance and the sound signal of said musical instrument corresponding to the melody of the score are recorded respectively, a reproducing player 12 which reads the optical disk 11 to obtain a video demodulated signal and a sound demodulated signal, an image display device 13 which displays an image with the video demodulated signal obtained from the reproducing player 12, and a sound reproduction device 14 which obtains a sound from the sound demodulated signal.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a musical instrument playing practice assisting apparatus for assisting a musical instrument practice of a performer as an application of a video disc system using an optical disk as a recording medium to the fields of entertainment and education. is there.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a video disc system is a system in which a laser disc or the like is used as an optical disc having a large storage capacity and which records and reproduces images and sounds by using a high density recording and reproducing technique. Since images and sounds have excellent features of high resolution and high quality, they have been applied to various fields of entertainment and education.

By the way, when the player tries to play a certain piece of music for the first time, he or she generally repeats the practice while watching the score. In the case of a new song, it takes skill to read the melody by looking at the score, and while looking at this score, for example, when trying to play an instrument such as a piano or a guitar, how to use the fingers, etc. How to play is not described in the score.

[0004]

That is, conventionally, it is difficult to easily understand the details of the playing method such as how to use the finger and the melody from the musical score, so that it takes a long time to be able to play the musical instrument. I had to practice repeatedly.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a musical instrument playing practice assisting apparatus capable of simultaneously understanding a musical score and a musical instrument playing method in accordance with a melody and enhancing the efficiency of musical instrument practice.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a practice support device for playing musical instruments according to the present invention comprises a musical score display section for displaying a musical score, an musical instrument playing section for displaying a musical instrument performance state of a performer, and a reproduction. An optical disc in which a video signal including a mark portion for displaying the note position of a musical score inside and an audio signal by the musical instrument corresponding to the melody of the musical score are recorded, and the optical disc is read to obtain a video demodulation signal and an audio demodulation signal. A reproduction player, an image display device for displaying an image from a video demodulation signal obtained from the reproduction player, and an audio reproduction device for obtaining sound from an audio demodulation signal are provided.

[0007]

According to the present invention, the melody flowing from the audio reproducing device is reproduced while the optical disc is reproduced by the reproducing player and the score of the score displaying part displayed on the image display device and the mark part indicating the note being reproduced are observed. By listening, you can easily understand the relationship between the score and the melody, and at the same time you can know the details of how to use the musical instrument displayed in the musical instrument playing section. Becomes faster,
Moreover, the efficiency of practicing musical instruments can be improved by practicing while listening to and listening to the necessary parts over and over again.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be specifically described below with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an education support device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an education support device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In these figures, the practice assisting apparatus for playing musical instruments according to the present embodiment shows an optical disk 11 in which video signals such as notes for a predetermined music piece, how to play the musical instrument, and audio signals such as the melody of the music piece are recorded. A reproduction player 12 for reading and reproducing a signal recorded on the optical disk 11, an image display device 13 for displaying an image from a video signal reproduced by the reproduction player 12, and an audio reproduction device 14 for generating sound from an audio signal. It is configured.

The optical disk 11 is a plastic board having pit rows corresponding to video signals and audio signals formed on the surface thereof, and for example, irradiates a laser beam to detect the signals. This optical disk 11 has
The melody when a certain song is played on a specific musical instrument is recorded as an audio signal, and at the same time, the music score of this song, the musical instrument playing state of the performer, and a mark indicating the note position of the musical score being played are recorded as a video signal. ing. As an example when this video signal is reproduced, as shown in FIG. 1, on the upper side of the image display device 13, a part of the musical score of the music being reproduced is a musical score in which notes are arranged in five lines. A display unit 21 is displayed, and on the lower side of the image display device 13, as a musical instrument playing unit 22 for displaying a musical instrument playing state for playing the melody of the performer, for example,
An image 22a showing how to use the fingers of the player's left hand and an image 22b showing how to use the fingers of the right hand when playing a guitar, which is a stringed instrument, are separately displayed on the left and right, and further, on the score display section 21. On the score, a mark portion 23 indicating a note currently being reproduced is displayed. It should be noted that such an optical disc 11 has a plurality of tunes recorded therein, and a signal for promptly cuing the tune or a signal for automatically stopping the performance at the last tune is recorded. ing.

The playback player 12 is an optical disk 11
Optical reproduction system 15 including an optical pickup for irradiating the surface of the laser beam with a laser beam to detect a signal, various servo circuits, a rotation and feed mechanism, and the like, and this optical reproduction system 15
It is composed of a video reproduction system 16 for amplifying the signal reproduced in step S1 and dividing it into video and audio to obtain a video demodulation signal and an audio reproduction system 17 for obtaining an audio demodulation signal. In the audio reproduction system 17, left and right audio outputs are obtained as normal stereo audio demodulation signals. It should be noted that, as shown in FIG.
An operation button 12a for performing fast-forwarding, returning, etc. is provided.

The image display device 13 is a device for obtaining an image by a video demodulation signal, and is, for example, a normal television receiver or a color monitor.

The audio reproducing device 14 is composed of, for example, an audio amplifier 18 such as a stereo amplifier, and left and right speakers 19 connected to the amplifier 18.

In the musical instrument performance practice support device having the above-mentioned configuration,
When practicing a musical instrument of a predetermined piece of music, the optical disk 11 containing the piece of music is selected and reproduced by the reproduction player 12. In the optical disc 11, the video signal and the audio signal recorded on the surface are read by the optical reproduction system 15, the video reproduction system 16 obtains the video demodulation signal, and the audio reproduction system 17 obtains the audio demodulation signal. The video demodulated signal is displayed as an image output by the image display device 13, and the audio demodulated signal is amplified by the amplifier 18 and is output to the speaker 19.
You can get voice output with. In the audio reproducing device 14, for example, a melody of a piece of music played by a guitar is output from the speaker 19 as a specific musical instrument. On the other hand, in the image display device 13, according to the melody of the music output from the speaker 19,
The score display section 21 displays a mark section 23 for displaying the notes displayed on the score being reproduced at the same time as the score of the song, and as the musical instrument playing section 22 for displaying the musical instrument playing state being played, for example, for a stringed instrument. An image 22a showing how to use the left finger and an image 22b showing how to use the right finger of a certain guitar are displayed. Therefore, a person who wants to practice a musical instrument can listen to the melody flowing from the speaker 19 while watching the score on the score display section 21 displayed on the image display device 13 and the mark section 23 indicating the note being reproduced. The relationship between the score and the melody can be easily understood, and at the same time, the details of how to use the left and right fingers of the musical instrument displayed on the musical instrument playing section 22 displayed on the image display device 13 can be known. How and
Since the relationship between the musical score and the melody can be grasped at the same time from the eyes and the ears, the comprehension becomes faster as compared with the case of practicing the musical instrument only by the musical score. Furthermore, since it is a video disc system using the optical disc 11, it is suitable for practicing while listening and listening to a required portion over and over again, and the efficiency of musical instrument practice can be improved.

In the above embodiment, the case where a guitar is played as a stringed instrument has been described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a keyboard or a piano or an organ, or a percussion instrument such as a drum may be used. is there.

The method of displaying the score display section 21, the musical instrument playing section 22, and the mark section 23 in the image display device 13 can be arbitrary and is not limited to the embodiment.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, listening to the melody flowing from the voice reproducing device while watching the score of the score displaying part displayed on the image display device and the mark part indicating the note being reproduced. This allows you to easily understand the relationship between the score and the melody, and at the same time, by knowing the details of how to use the instrument displayed in the instrument playing section, you can understand it faster than if you practice the instrument only with the score. Moreover, by practicing while listening to and listening to the necessary parts over and over again, the efficiency of practicing musical instruments can be increased.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an education support device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an education support device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 optical disk 12 playback player 13 image display unit 14 audio playback device 15 optical playback system 16 video playback system 17 audio playback system 18 amplifier 19 speaker 21 score display unit 22 musical instrument playing unit 23 mark unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A video signal including a musical score display section for displaying a musical score, an musical instrument playing section for displaying a musical instrument performance state of a performer, a mark section for displaying a note position of a musical score being reproduced, and a melody of the musical score. An optical disc on which each of the audio signals by the musical instrument is recorded, a reproduction player for reading the optical disc to obtain a video demodulation signal and an audio demodulation signal, and an image display device and audio for displaying an image from the video demodulation signal obtained from the reproduction player. An apparatus for practicing playing musical instruments, comprising a voice reproducing device for obtaining voice from a demodulated signal.