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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8106280 | Devices and related methods for teaching music to young children To help young children and other individuals learn music while playing and having fun, a novel card or device is presented that includes, on a first side, an image of a musical note on its surface, and on a second side an image of at least a portion of a musical ins... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8058542 | Chord progression based techniques and tools for learning to play music Techniques for gaining facility in the performance of jazz music by performing a sequence of patterns. Each pattern begins at a fixed interval from the preceding pattern in the sequence and the patterns are performed with perpetual motion between the patterns. The p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8049092 | Grand staff to keyboard association method and system A method and system is provided which facilitates the process of the learning music reading related to the playing of keyboard instruments through associating the staff lines on the bass and treble clefs with the ten corresponding keys on a keyboard by marking those... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044288 | Proprietary music rotation supporting the equal temperament tuning system A musical notation system is provided wherein the twelve pitches of the 12-TET tuning system are represented by horizontal lines placed at the top, center and bottom of four different reference heads. Pitches, intervals chords and scales degrees are named by the pos... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8039721 | Kit and method for learning to play an instrument A kit and method for learning rhythms, composing music, to play a musical instrument, and then read music; in that particular order of events. The kit comprises a set of hands on manipulatives that assemble into a structured system of interactive musical instrument ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7985909 | Easy method and system for a musical keyboard instrument A method and system to facilitate learning how to play a musical keyboard instrument. A first embodiment of the invention involves a system to facilitate learning, including a plurality of indicators on a plurality of keys on a keyboard of a musical keyboard instrum... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7902446 | System for learning and mixing music The teachings described herein are generally directed to a system for learning an isolated instrument audio track within a prerecorded and original, multi-track recording. The system can include a processor, and a database to store audio data for processing by a use... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7897861 | Easy visual training templates to teach piano scale fingering sequences The present disclosure provides for instruction guide templates for piano keyboard scale fingering for left and right hands and methods of using the guide templates in order to simplify learning the correct fingering sequences of all major and minor scale variations... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7884273 | Method and use of warm-up instructional video for wind instrument An instructional system and method for students of wind instrument that include audio/video depictions for viewing by users of the system and method an instructor performing steps on a wind instrument, an animated breathing bar presented at least during a time perio... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7875785 | Instructional device and method for piano or other musical keyboard An instructional device and associated method for illustrating the positions of keys and their associated notes on a keyboard are provided. The instructional device includes key markers that are adjustably mounted on a support structure in a configuration correspond... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7858866 | Training setting apparatus and system, and grouping method thereof and computer-readable medium containing computer program therefor An apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable medium provides control for displaying, on a display device, a classroom screen with symbolic images representative of a plurality of slave instruments connected to a master instrument in accordance with actual pos... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7799983 | Music teaching tool for steel pan and drum players and associated methods A tool is provided for assisting in teaching music to a player of a steel pan/drum. The tool comprises a substantially circular base divided into twelve radial sectors, a central sector, and three concentric, radially spaced rings, thereby having 37 elements. Each e... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7772476 | Device and method for visualizing musical rhythmic structures The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for visualizing the rhythmic structure of musical compositions. Circular symmetry and geometric shapes are utilized to visualize representations of rhythmic structures about a central axis. In general, lower freq... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7754954 | Music education system and method of use A Music Education System including at least one staff coupled to at least one markable and erasable piece of material, which attracts magnetic surfaces, comprising at least one magnetic surface; and coupleable to a markerboard; at least one musical notation placed o... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7750223 | Musical interaction assisting apparatus A musical interaction assisting apparatus is to enhance friendliness between an electronic musical instrument and the player. The player's actions are detected acoustically, visually or physically, and the interaction assisting apparatus interprets the detected play... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7663044 | Musical performance self-training apparatus The apparatus of the present invention improves training efficiency, and monotonous repetition of training is avoided. A unit acceptance judgment section (4) judges whether all performance of the units in the current rank have reached an acceptable standard o... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7629527 | Machine and method for teaching music and piano A method and system of teaching music that uses modified representations of the musical score, an interactive visual feedback describing the musical tones played on a musical device, and the marking of piano keys or other control instrumentalities of a musical devic... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7608773 | 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 the... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7608774 | Performance guide apparatus and program Two-dimensional display section is provided near a keyboard, and, in accordance with performance data, this display section is caused to effect a dynamic display moving, in a given two-dimensional trajectory, from a first display position corresponding to a key to b... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7579541 | Automatic page sequencing and other feedback action based on analysis of audio performance data Speech or musical performance is electronically analyzed using DSP techniques and is compared to a stored text script or musical score, to enable display of and automated sequencing through multiple pages of the stored script or score. The performer can modify timin... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7554025 | Visual chord keyboard instructional method Shapes formed by various series of interconnected straight lines representing lines between finger positions forming chords on musical keyboards form a system and method for learning finger positioning to form chords and finger movements to change chords on a musica... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7514621 | Musical keyboard pattern card Musical Keyboard Pattern Cards designed to train musical keyboard students to learn the major/minor tonal system of scales and chords upon which Western music is based. ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7507892 | Musical note reading method and written exercises A method that facilitates the learning process of musical note reading which is exhibited in a series of written exercises. Musical notes, letters of the alphabet, numbers, and symbols are arranged in a specific order on musical staffs that consist of five, equidist... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7507893 | Method for teaching music One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for teaching music to one or more students. The instructor's manual operation of a musical instrument controls in real-time the illumination of guide lamps on each student's musical instrument. This allows ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7485793 | Music display device and method A display device includes a first planar surface and a second planar surface divided into a plurality of adjacent sectors, the second planar surface attached concentrically and rotatable with respect to the first planar surface, the second planar surface including a... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7482524 | System and method for teaching music A system and method for teaching music both visually and tactilely. In one embodiment, the invention comprises blocks shaped to resemble musical symbols used to compose music, including time signatures, notes, rests, and dots. Each of the blocks are relative in thic... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7465864 | Musical instrument training device with multiple mouthpieces A musical instrument training device, system, and method are provided for teaching a plurality of wind instrument embouchures. The instrument includes an elongate body having first end and a second end opposite the first end and defining an internal bore extending l... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7439438 | Musical notation system patterned upon the standard piano keyboard An improved musical notation system, which uses a staff patterned upon the standard piano keyboard. It replaces the Grand Staff's system of lines and spaces with a system of “pitch stripes” of two colors arranged in the same pattern as the black and white keys o... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7435891 | Method and system for generating musical variations directed to particular skill-levels Various embodiments are directed to an automated method and system component for generating variations of one or more musical selections directed to particular students or to particular skill-levels into which students may be classified. The method and system compon... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432432 | System and method for recognizing handwritten music notations A method and system for recognizing handwritten music notations is described. The method includes steps of recognizing notations within a notation category and receiving a plurality of input strokes corresponding to handwritten music notations. Nearby strokes may be... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7427704 | Stringed instrument fingering guide A finger guide plate includes a fret plate; a circuit board coupled to a bottom of the fret plate; and a support plate including fret relief notches coupled to a bottom of the circuit board. A learning apparatus for a stringed instrument includes a replacement fret ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423213 | Multi-dimensional transformation systems and display communication architecture for compositions and derivations thereof A composition display system produces a display presentation in one of a plurality of formats from an original composition, the formats being created from the original composition responsive to input variables and a selected operating mode. The system is comprised o... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7414186 | System and method of teaching musical notes A system and method of teaching musical notes are adapted to teach identification of music staff notes, the names and sounds of notes, as well as piano keys corresponding to notes. An implementation of the method entails displaying a musical keyboard having a plural... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7408105 | Instrument training device for stringed instruments An instrument training device for use with a stringed instrument includes a plurality of training members. Each training member is constructed of a flexible material and includes opposed ends. Each end includes complementary fastening material such as hook and loop ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408101 | Musical instrument strings and a method of instruction The musical instrument strings and a method of instruction comprise a set of strings, each string having colored markings along its length, each mark indicating a note sounded when the string is played at the mark. Additional notes are similarly marked along each st... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7388143 | Simplified sheet music device and method The device and method disclosed aids in the learning of traditional sheet by providing an intermediary, more simplified system of musical notation. Unlike much of the prior art, the device and method of the present invention does not require a computer, the use of c... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7378585 | Musical teaching device and method using gloves and a virtual keyboard A portable musical teaching interface system for purposes of providing the user with the skills necessary to play the piano. The interface system comprising a pair of gloves each having a plurality of finger sleeves adapted to receive the fingers of a user's hands, ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7371954 | Tuner apparatus for aiding a tuning of musical instrument A tuner apparatus 10 causes a user to designate a musical instrument that is to be tuned and a reference pitch that is a standard upon tuning, by a process at a setting portion 110. A pitch detecting portion 130 detects a pitch of a performed no... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365261 | Musical performance data creating apparatus with visual zooming assistance In an apparatus for creating musical performance data according to operations of a user, a screen display section displays an input screen having a data input area for use in inputting of musical performance data. A position indication section operates when a first ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365263 | Intonation training device An intonation training device for training musicians in just intonation. As disclosed, the device is a pocket-sized portable device with an audio output and a user interface which includes an LCD display and a device such as a push button for selecting an item from ... | 04/29/2008 |
