Enhanced stringed instrument learning is provided by a wearable device. A control unit comprising a processor and a memory device is integrated with a frame, of the wearable device, formed to fit over a hand of a user while playing a stringed instrument. A finger assembly is provided each finger of the hand and is coupled to the frame to immobilize a finger of the hand while playing the stringed instrument. A sensor array is coupled to each finger assembly and to the control unit to determine at least a positioning of fingers on the stringed instrument. The sensor also sends user performance data to the control unit. The control unit analyzes the user performance data and outputs feedback to the user based on the performance data analysis.

An automatic performance system includes a sign detector configured to detect a sign action of a performer performing a musical piece, a performance analyzer configured to sequentially estimates a performance position in the musical piece by analyzing an acoustic signal representing performed sound in parallel with the performance, and a performance controller configured to control an automatic performance device to carry out an automatic performance of the musical piece so that the automatic performance is synchronized with the sign action detected by the sign detector and a progress of the performance position estimated by the performance analyzer.

A musical instrument activity monitoring system having a tracking and monitoring assembly including a microcontroller with non-volatile memory, an accelerometer, at least one sensor, and an antenna each in communication with the microcontroller, a power source, and a coupler. In-use parameters of musical instrument activity is tracked and monitored by the tracking and monitoring assembly. The microcontroller with non-volatile memory stores data. The data relates to values and timestamps retrieved from use of the at least one musical instrument and environmental conditions at least one musical instrument is in to analyze performance of the at least one musical instrument.

A method for online music learning of playing a musical instrument, that may be a string instrument, a woodwind instrument, a brass instrument, a percussion instrument, or vocal (singing) is described. A client device, such as a smartphone or a tablet notifies a person, such as visually by a display or audibly by a sounder, of a sequence of musical symbols that may be part of a musical piece to be played on the musical instrument. The pace or tempo of the notified sequence is adapted according to a stored skill level value of the person and the pace or tempo associated with the musical piece. The client device, monitors, using a microphone(s) in the client device, the errors in the playing of the sequence, and using a predefined accordingly updates the stored skill level value, and accordingly changes the arrangement, pace and/or tempo of the next sequence of musical symbols.

A musical score display control method, device and program which control a processor to acquire performance data being performed, sequentially acquire performance positions of a performance in a musical score data that represent a musical score based on the musical score data and the performance data, and display on a display a predetermined portion of the musical score data according to the current performance position. The processor also controls the display to display a next performance target portion of the musical score data upon determining that the current performance position has advanced beyond a first threshold position from a prior performance position at a point in time prior to the current performance position, and to display a previous performance target portion of the musical score data upon determining that the current performance position has returned beyond a second threshold position from the prior performance position.

A musical score display device and method employing a controller that is configured to control a display to display a musical score and, with the musical score, a first time axis corresponding to a performance of the musical score in which at least one repeat part of the musical score is played during the performance, or a second time axis corresponding to the musical score including at least one repeat sign.

A device is configured to display electronic sheet music. The device may display electronic sheet music that can be magnified and displayed in sequence by reflowing electronic musical symbols between pages. In addition, the device may adaptively determine a layout based on user preferences, such as a desired magnification, an orientation of a device or the like, and may display a current location in the electronic sheet music based on user input, a remote trigger, a desired playback speed or by monitoring an audio input from a microphone and determining a current location in the electronic sheet music. For example, the device may detect a series of pitches and display the electronic sheet music based on a most recent pitch in the series of pitches.

A device that supports a performer of a wind instrument, the device including: a processor; and a memory, in which the processor acquires data indicating a myoelectric potential value measured by, a myoelectric sensor arranged on a surface of the face of a performer, the memory stores a table including a listing of conditions for the myoelectric potential value and a corresponding listing of support information for playing the wind instrument, and the processor determines whether the acquired myoelectric potential value satisfies at least a portion of a target condition included in the listing of conditions, determines support information corresponding to the target condition, when the acquired myoelectric potential value is determined to satisfy the at least a portion of the target condition, generates a support image corresponding to the determined support information, and controls a display to display the generated support image.

Indicating what should be played in a piece of music with a music document, including: displaying a part of the music document when a user plays the piece; receiving a real-time audio signal of the playing; automatically determining a playing position within the piece of music based on the real-time audio signal; automatically scrolling the music document on a display depending on the playing position; estimating at least the following from the real-time audio signal: activity; tonality; and tempo used in automatically determining the playing position determined from playing speed of the user. The estimating of the activity includes detecting whether the user is producing any sounding notes. The estimating of the tonality is based on an array of chord models that represent different chords that appear in the music document and allow calculating the probability that the corresponding chord is being played in various real-time audio signal segments.

A method performed by one or more processors in an information processing device for an electronic musical instrument includes, via the one or more processors: receiving performance data generated by a user performance of the electronic musical instrument; extracting time-series characteristics of a sequence of notes from the performance data; detecting a performance technique from the extracted characteristics; and generating an image data reflecting the detected performance technique and outputting the generated image data.