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| 20120042767 | Method for guitar instruction This invention concerns a business method by which improved instruction of advanced guitar playing is possible. String groupings and inversions on those string groupings are presented to the student in a way reflective of pattern, and of overall musical theory. Twenty i... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120017748 | System and Methods for Sensing Finger Position in a Digital Musical Instruments Embodiments of the invention provide a digital musical instrument. The instrument comprises a fretboard and one or more strings extended over the fretboard. The instrument further includes an electric circuit for generating digital signals based on positions associated ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110296974 | Finger Sleeve With Raised Flexible Bar For Playing BarreChords One embodiment of a tight fitting finger sleeve is presented which has a raised flexible bar to assist in playing a stringed musical instrument, such as a guitar, in a style that includes barre chords. The finger sleeve (10) is configured with an internal cavity ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110146477 | String instrument educational device A string instrument educational device implemented on a computer having a touch screen (100) that causes a note representation of a musical note (140) to appear and travel along a string representation (having locations to depress to cause the string repre... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110011241 | SELF-TEACHING AND ENTERTAINMENT GUITAR SYSTEMS A self-teaching guitar and entertainment system for use by a user to learn how to play a song on a guitar includes a guitar having a plurality of strings, a fret board having a plurality of illuminatable portions, and a processor operable to illuminate the illuminatable... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100307319 | PLAY ASSIST DEVICE The invention provides a play assist device which allows a player to efficiently learn how to read and play a score. The device includes display means for displaying the upper and lower staves of a grand staff independently by a predetermined range, projecting means for... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100132535 | TEACHING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS A method for teaching stringed instrument students how to play sheet music through the use of colored fingering numbers. This method assists the user in knowing which finger to use on which string as they play instrumental music. It also indicates which position their h... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100107849 | Coated Neck Assembly For A Stringed Musical Instrument Disclosed herein are various systems and methods for providing a neck assembly for a stringed instrument. The neck assembly can include a fingerboard structure having a well configured to receive a light-emitting device and permit light transmission from the light-emitt... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20090266223 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT LEARNING AND TEACHING METHOD, MUSIC NOTATION SYSTEM, AND CORRESPONDING VISUAL AID A simplified playing method and music notation system for the learning and teaching of playing the guitar, banjo, ukulele, or similar stringed instrument, primarily for use as accompaniment to singing. One embodiment of the method is comprised of 2 parts: 1. A notation ... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090235808 | System and Method of Instructing Musical Notation for a Stringed Instrument A method of instructing a user to read musical notation through interaction with a graphical user interface and an input instrument representative of a stringed instrument may include the steps of generating the graphical user interface having a first mode. The first mo... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090188376 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE INTERPRETATION INTO SOUND A method for interpreting an image into sound is provided and includes scanning an image to provide a plurality of scanned elements which are assigned a value and an associated sound element. The sound elements are arranged to produce a sound track for the scanned image... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090126553 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT WITH COLOR-CODED FRETBOARD AND METHOD OF USING SAME The present invention relates to the use of multi-colored indicators on a stringed instrument to guide the user in proper finger placement on the fretboard or fingerboard for selected musical notes or chords. The indicators are color-coded to correspond to the user's fi... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090071314 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT FINGERING GUIDE An apparatus for a stringed instrument includes a replacement finger board for non-intrusive placement over an existing finger board that includes a plate having a top end and a bottom end. The plate has a varying thickness along the longitudinal length of a main axis c... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090064849 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELF-INSTRUCTION A method for self-instruction of a user's hands on an object such as a musical instrument or sports equipment. The method includes accessing finger placement data corresponding to a sequence of predetermined finger placements on a plurality of objects. A position for ea... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090025536 | Method of instruction for musical instruments The present invention is directed toward an instructional methodology that is used in teaching novice or beginner status individuals how to play a musical instrument. The current methodology has been found to be particularly advantageous in teaching the use of stringed ... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090013854 | System and Method for Indicating Selective Regions of A Musical Instrument A system is provided for indicating at least one selective region of a musical instrument. The musical instrument includes a main body portion, and an elongated neck portion extending from the main body portion. The elongated neck portion includes a plurality of spaced-... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080216639 | Method of automated musical instrument finger finding An automated computing system and method for determining fingering of musical instruments from digitized scored music or tablature. The computerized automated finger finder system and method analyzes a musical composition and determines hand and/or fingering positional ... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080105108 | TRAINING APPARATUS FOR LEARNING TO PLAY THE GUITAR A training apparatus for guiding and independently teaching a user to quickly play a guitar by interpreting stored encoded MIDI music data to guide the user's hands by illuminating sequences of desired finger positions on the frets of a guitar to play the music.... | 05/08/2008 |
