An experiment on melody training for amateur musical instrument players

Abstract

The long term goal of the research started in this project is to develop systems able to assist people training to sing or hum melodies, or play them on musical instruments. The current project will focus on single instrument training for short monophonic melodies. The interaction between the user and a fully developed application would go as follows: The user selects a melody from the database and the application reproduces it. The human plays the melody with an instrument while the application records it, so, when finished; it processes the recording to give its approval or sings again the melody if it hasn’t been well reproduced.