METHOD FOR REPRESENTING MUSICAL SCALES AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL DEVICE

摘要

A method represents musical scales by means of tiles, including pentatonic scales (arbitrary scales with five notes per octave), heptatonic scales (arbitrary scales with seven notes per octave), Major blues and Minor blues scales (specific scales with six notes per octave). An electronic musical device has an interface that uses this representation. The device uses a multi-touch interface with or without strings, which allows the musician to concentrate on the melodic line only, making it easier to improvise and perform music composed in one of the scales. The representation differs from the traditional interfaces on string instruments (such as a guitar) in that only the notes of a given scale (with five, six or seven notes per octave) can be played.

主权项

1. Method of representing musical scales on a multi-touch and two-dimensional interface, the method comprising:
assigning each note of a specific scale to a region in a tile with one octave per tile, wherein each tile comprises a plurality of regions arranged from left to right and from bottom to top in order of the notes of the scale assigned thereto, starting with a tonic note of the scale, wherein each of tiles have the same shape tiling the tiles such that the regions are linearly-oriented throughout the tiles, distinguishing a region where the tonic note is assigned from the rest, and overlapping an image of strings on the interface such that each of the strings runs across respective regions, wherein the number of musical notes to be presented will depend both on the interface size and on the tiles, and on the selected region, as well as on the availability of the audible notes of the instrument.