Presentation 2018-03-03
Support System for Improving Guitar Performance Based on Melody Extraction
Ryo Ito, Tomoko Kojiri,
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Abstract(in English) Most music consists of a melody and an accompaniment. For such music, the melody part should be played differently from the accompaniment part. However, some players have difficulty in playing a melody part and an accompaniment part separately. The objective of this research is to develop the music performance support system which analyzes the music performance of a player and visualizes missing note in the melody part as a feedback. Our system firstly extracts notes that can be heard as a melody part and as an accompaniment part from the recorded music performance according to theirs volumes, and creates a melody score and an accompaniment score. Created melody score is compared with the original melody score using the Levenshtein distance in order to determine missing notes in the player’s performance. Extracted missing notes are visualized on the original score and are given to the player. According to the experiment, our system could detect missing notes correctly, especially from the music that do not have sequences of the same note. In addition, the system has possibility to support players for practicing their performance.
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Keyword(in English) Music performance support / melody extraction / Levenshtein distance / visualization / classical guitar
Paper # ET2017-90
Date of Issue 2018-02-24 (ET)

Conference Information
Committee ET
Conference Date 2018/3/3(1days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Kochi University of Technology (Eikokuji Campus)
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Standardization and Utilization of e-Textbook/e-Learning, etc.
Chair Yozo Miyadera(Tokyo Gakugei Univ.)
Vice Chair Shoichi Nakamura(Fukushima Univ.)
Secretary Shoichi Nakamura(Tokyo Polytechnic Univ.)
Assistant Hiroki Nakayama(Waseda Univ.) / Megumi Kurayama(National Inst. of Tech., Hakodate College)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Educational Technology
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Support System for Improving Guitar Performance Based on Melody Extraction
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Music performance support
Keyword(2) melody extraction
Keyword(3) Levenshtein distance
Keyword(4) visualization
Keyword(5) classical guitar
1st Author's Name Ryo Ito
1st Author's Affiliation Kansal University(Kansas Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Tomoko Kojiri
2nd Author's Affiliation Kansal University(Kansas Univ.)
Date 2018-03-03
Paper # ET2017-90
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) ET-469
Page pp.pp.7-12(ET),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-02-24 (ET)