| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 084485000 | For fingering | 27 |
| 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-apart boundaries configured to define a plurality of regions along the elongated neck portion. The system includes at least one physical indicator positioned along a back side of the elongated neck portion opposite to a front side, and further along the back side adjacent to at least one of the plurality of regions. The at least one physical indicator is configured to provide non-visual sensory confirmation of the position of the plurality of regions along the elongated neck portion. | 01-15-2009 |
| 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 instruments such as guitars. More particularly, the instructional system uses a series of repetitive sequencing steps in order for a pupil to understand the positions on the instrument as well as to grasp a fundamental understanding of chord arrangements and musical scales. | 01-29-2009 |
| 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 each finger is sensed on one or more object representations. A finger placement indication is provided on the one or more object representations. The finger placement indication corresponds to each finger of the based on the finger placement data. Each finger placement indication location is compared with an associated sensed position for each finger and a determination is made whether the finger placement indication matches the sensed position for each finger. | 03-12-2009 |
| 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 fingers, and the user may also attach indicators on his or her fingers or hand for further guidance. The indicators display colors corresponding to correct finger placement for chosen notes or chords, and the invention may also allow the indicators to display a series of notes or chords, such as may comprise an entire song. The invention may also include indicators to designate which string(s) should be played. | 05-21-2009 |
| 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 |
| 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 mode may include a virtual fingerboard positioned substantially along a vertical extreme of the interface, the virtual fingerboard may include a first linear array representing a first string having a first frequency range. The virtual fingerboard may also include a second linear array representing a second string having a second frequency range, wherein the second frequency range overlaps the first frequency range associated with a string. Furthermore, the virtual fingerboard may additionally include a plurality of note positions, each note position having a corresponding fingerboard position on the input instrument. | 09-24-2009 |
| 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 system which specifies non-standard tuning information ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 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 hand should be in as they play sheet music. Numbers correspond to which finger should be used to play a particular note. Separate, distinctly identifiable colors are assigned to notes that should be played on a particular string in a particular position, and are visually displayed as colored fingering numbers that indicate which string and in which position the user should play the fingered notes on. | 06-03-2010 |
| 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 projecting the images of the upper and lower staves of a grand staff above or onto the keyboard, pressed key detection means for detecting the pressed key, and control means for shifting the upper and lower staves so that the note to be played in the upper and lower staves is positioned above or on the key corresponding to the note. | 12-09-2010 |
| 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 portions of the fret board. The processor and the illuminatable portions are operable to selectively display illuminated fret numbers in the frets and adjacent the strings on the fret board corresponding to fret numbers on strings in a guitar tablature for playing the song. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110146477 | String instrument educational device - A string instrument educational device implemented on a computer having a touch screen ( | 06-23-2011 |
| 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 ( | 12-08-2011 |
| 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 inversions of the same chord are visible on the guitar neck at one time and the student is taught a schematic approach to recognize and play any of those chord inversions at will. This method is useful either by in-person instruction, online instruction, television, DVD, book, or other medium that can be monetized and produces the result that an advanced guitar player purchasing these instructions can rapidly achieve an elite understanding of guitar chords. Using this method, the student will understand how instantly to be able to play any chord possible on the guitar, at any position on the musical staff possible to the guitar, and with any particular note of that chord being the lowest note fingered on the guitar at a given time. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120167747 | Method and Device for Playing of Musical Melodies - Method and device for playing of musical melodies and for learning to play musical melodies, which comprises the shining/lighting indicators, which are placed under-, on-, in-, or near the keys of an electronic piano, system for switching-on and switching-off of these shining/lighting indicators, means for controlling of this a.m. switching-on&off system, the shining/lighting indicators for placing on the human fingers, which indicators are provided with the means for their fastening on the human fingers, wherein these shining/lighting indicators are electrically connected to the system for switching-on&off of these shining/lighting indicators, and thereby are these shining/lighting indicators also connected with the means for controlling of this a.m. switching-on&off system. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120192700 | MUSIC DISPLAY SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method of displaying a musical composition for a musical instrument, comprising displaying at least a portion of the musical instrument; displaying, on the musical instrument, a fingering position indicator, indicating a fingering position that is becoming due to be played; and displaying a timing indicator indicating when the fingering position is due to be played. The fingering position indicator may comprise one or more marks on the musical instrument, and the timing indicator may comprise an object moving towards the fingering position indicator on the musical instrument, wherein the object reaches the musical instrument when the fingering position is due to be played. The object and/or the mark may be shaped to indicate an articulation to be played | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120272811 | Music Wormhole, A Music Education and Entertainment System - System showing the finger positions on multiple different musical instruments for all the chords in all the keys of the Major Scale, color co-ordinated to western music's twelve point chromatic scale, showing key signature, character, chromatic scale degree and other relevant musical information. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120285314 | System and Method for Musical Education - A method of locating, discovering, and memorizing the names of the notes for acoustic and electric stringed musical instruments is disclosed. The method includes joining the frontal view of the fingerboard of the instrument with a labeled virtual view of the fingerboard applied to the back of the instrument neck in a location corresponding to respective frets on the front. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130087036 | GUITAR STRIP - A system for aiding in the teaching and playing of stringed instruments, allowing for easily understood, non-descript reference points. The system is a decal or series of decals or other printed thin attachable strips, depicting the notes on a given string corresponding to given fingering position. The decals are placed on the back of the neck near the top, or nut, allowing the player a clear view of the notes from a natural playing position, rather than having to look at the front of the fingerboard as in current systems. In a particular embodiment the printed notes correspond to the fret positions on a fretted instrument such as a guitar, or bass. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130180383 | MUSICAL NOTATION SYSTEMS FOR GUITAR FRETBOARD, VISUAL DISPLAYS THEREOF, AND USES THEREOF - There are provided visual displays for graphically showing on a visual representation of a guitar fretboard a location relationship between a given chord and its chord tones as well as for graphically showing on a visual representation of a guitar fretboard a location relationship between a given position and its scale tones. The present disclosure also relates to a method for visually expressing, on a visual representation of a guitar fretboard, the location relationship between a given chord, its chord tones and its scale tones, in a given key; a music notation method for representing a location relationship between a given chord, its chord tones and the scale tones of the scale to which said given chord belong, on a visual representation of at least a portion of a guitar fretboard; and visual display for expressing musical harmonic functions. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130180384 | STRINGED INSTRUMENT PRACTICE DEVICE AND SYSTEM - The present invention extends to practice devices and systems for practicing to play stringed instruments. An electronic stringed instrument practice device can be configured to perform one or more of the following: detect when finger positions and/or string to fret contact on a finger or fret board forms an appropriate musical note or musical chord, visually indicate appropriate positions on a finger or fret board for forming a musical note or musical chord, and detect when strings have been selected (e.g., strummed). The electronic stringed instrument practice device can emit sound in the form of musical notes and chords. The electronic stringed instrument practice device can include communication modules for communicating with other computing devices, including mobile phones and tablets. The electronic stringed instrument practice device can interact with applications on other computing devices to further assist users in learning how to play a stringed musical instrument. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20140116232 | LEARNING DEVICE FOR STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - A learning device for stringed musical instruments having a fingerboard with one or more frets, comprising a top surface having printed thereon a series of musical notes indicators and one or more perforations having dimensions and positioning corresponding to the one or more frets an a bottom surface configured to fasten the learning device to the fingerboard of the stringed musical instrument. The learning device is configured such that when it is fastened on the fingerboard below the strings of the stringed musical instrument the one or more frets protrude from the one or more perforations and the musical notes indicators are positioned at corresponding musical notes positions on the fingerboard. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20150059556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEARNING TO PLAY A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A method and system for teaching oneself to learn to play a string instrument and master it by analyzing one's real-time hand/finger movement/technique/form, enabling oneself to progress and correct one's own mistakes simultaneously. In one aspect, a system for learning to play a string instrument is provided that includes a simulation instrument that includes a plurality of strings, wherein at least one of the strings includes at least one-touch sensing sensor thereon in communication with at least one processor to receive a signal from the at least one touch-sensing sensor and determine therefrom when and where on the at least one string a user applies pressure to the at least one string. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150310759 | CHORD PLAYING ATTACHMENT - A chord playing attachment and related method is disclosed. The chord playing attachment may be attached to a guitar or similar stringed instrument, and the user may use the chord playing attachment to learn to play the instrument. Unlike other chord playing attachments, the present invention discloses a design that does not function as a capo, which allows the user play chords in standard keys. The present invention also discloses tabs that may be removed or swapped by the user to allow the user to play some chords by pressing the strings directly and some by pressing a finger pad. The present invention encourages novices to learn to play the instrument in stages and eventually remove the invention entirely. A companion teaching manual is also disclosed. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150317910 | Accelerated Learning, Entertainment and Cognitive Therapy Using Augmented Reality Comprising Combined Haptic, Auditory, and Visual Stimulation - An accelerated learning and rehabilitation system for teaching the performance of a musical instrument, a remotely operated system, a sport, a weapon, and for brain rehabilitation and other uses includes generating sensory cues including auditory, haptic and visual sensory cues capable of being perceived by a user. The generated sensory cues are applied to the user and are dependent on a position of at least one body member of a performer relative to a performance element of a performance object with which an event is performed. The sensory cues are effective for stimulating a various processing center of a brain of the user so that user learns how to position his body member corresponding to the position of the performer of the event. The sensory cues can include visual sensory cues effective for stimulating the visual processing center of the brain of the user. The visual sensory cues are synchronized with the other applied sensory cues so that the position of the body member of the performer is virtually visually indicated in synchronization with the other sensory cues so that the visual processing center is stimulated with a visual sensory cue in synchronization with the stimulation of other processing centers corresponding to the other sensory cues for teaching the user to perform a version of the event. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150332601 | Piano Learning System - A piano learning system includes a MIDI controller, a plurality of lights, a pair of color-coded gloves, and an external MIDI instrument, where the MIDI controller is electrically connected with the plurality of lights and the external MIDI instrument. The MIDI controller illuminates at least one light from the plurality of lights so that the user is able to practice the correct notes and the correct fingerings of a musical score through the external MIDI instrument. The illumination of the plurality of lights allows the user to match a correct finger sleeve of the pair of color-coded gloves and the correct hand so that the user can efficiently and correctly learn to play the piano. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150367239 | INTERACTIVE GUITAR GAME - An interactive game designed for learning to play a guitar. A guitar may be connected to a computer or other platform, capable of loading music and displaying notes and chords and other feedback and visual learning aids on a display screen, allowing a user to read music and play along. The goal of the software or interactive game engine is for players to learn how to play a guitar. Users may operate the game in a number of modes with different goals, playing mini-games throughout the levels of the game. The game provides feedback and statistics to help users learn how to play the guitar. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160071430 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TRAINING DEVICE AND METHOD - A musical instrument training device has a sensor array cooperating with a remote device and an electronic controller to assist as a guide for finger placement on the strings of the instrument, and to provide feedback on proper finger use and placement, the sensor being removably mountable on an instrument neck. | 03-10-2016 |
