Rythmic motor skills training device

摘要

A computerized system and method for music practice and training to assist a musician to improve their skills in maintaining a tempo and to improve ear-hand coordination, eye-hand coordination and other motor skills while learning to play an instrument. The system receives user defined beats per minute (BPM), rhythms or short segments of a music piece and generates audio reference outputs and visual display of music notes as stimuli. The user responses to these stimuli are measured in time and in the force and intensity of the responses and provided as feedback to the user to improve their response time and intensity to stimuli and assists the user in modifying the responses to the output stimuli to reduce the time between the output stimuli and the user response and thus improve the user's timing accuracy while playing music.

主权项

1. A system and method for computing a difference in response time between a system generated stimuli to a user input and a user response to said stimuli and displaying said difference in response time of said user to said stimuli, on an electronic device:
user input of beats per minute, defined rhythms, short segments of music pieces into a timing analyzer in said electronic device to generate said stimuli; said timing analyzer outputting an audio reference tone of said system generated stimuli through a speaker on said electronic device; said timing analyzer outputting a video reference display of a quarter music note of said system generated stimuli on a touch screen display window of said electronic device simultaneously with said output of said audio reference tone through said speaker of said electronic device; said user responding to said audio reference tone and said video reference display through user generated noise;said timing analyzer computing a relative difference in time between said system generated stimuli and said user response; anddisplaying said relative difference in time between said system generated stimuli and said user response on said touch screen display window of said electronic device.