The European Union-funded Vemus project has developed a series of interactive programs that will help students learn to play musical instruments. The key to developing the musical teaching system was creating software capable of hearing and responding to the music being played by the student, and to judge whether the music is played correctly and respond accordingly. The Vemus project developed a teaching architecture and a software platform for novice and intermediate music students learning to play the recorder, flute, trumpet, saxophone, and clarinet. Project coordinator George Tambouratzis says the researchers focused on those instruments because it is significantly easier to develop a system for monophonic wind instruments. The project then focused on addressing three specific learning scenarios. In each scenario a musical score is submitted to the platform so the system can recognize and check if the right notes are being played. Any deviation from the score is recorded by the system and sent to the student. The first scenario is self practice, in which the student practices a piece of assigned music and improves by receiving feedback from the program. The second scenario is distance learning, which could be used for students who live a long way from a music teacher. The third scenario is a conventional classroom, where a teacher can have one student play a piece and have the others follow to recreate that score. The results of each student’s performance can be displayed on a PC to provide feedback.
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