Systems and methods for the creation and playback of animated, interpretive, musical notation and audio synchronized with the recorded performance of an original artist
First Claim
1. A method of enabling users to create musical enhancements that prompt users to play along with an audio recording, comprising:
- enabling a first user to create at least one musical enhancement that prompts users to play along with the audio recording, wherein the prompts comprise at least one of a visual or aural representation of at least one aspect of the music associated with the audio recording;
enabling a first user to synchronize the at least one musical enhancement to the audio recording; and
enabling a first user to store the at least one synchronized musical enhancement; and
prompting at least one of the first user or a second user to play along with the audio recording by playing the audio recording synchronously with the stored synchronized musical enhancement.
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Abstract
A music application guides a user with some musical experience through the steps of creating and editing a musical enhancement file that enhances and plays in synchronicity with an audio signal of an original artist'"'"'s recorded performance. This enables others, perhaps with lesser musical ability than the original artist, to play-along with the original artist by following melodic, chordal, rhythmic, and verbal prompts. The music application accounts for differences in the timing of the performance from a standard tempo by guiding the user through the process of creating a tempo map for the performance and by associating the tempo map with MIDI information of the enhancement file. Enhancements may contain MIDI information, audio signal information, and/or video signal information which may be played back in synchronicity with the recorded performance to provide an aural and visual aid to others playing-along who may have less musical experience.
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18 Claims
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1. A method of enabling users to create musical enhancements that prompt users to play along with an audio recording, comprising:
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enabling a first user to create at least one musical enhancement that prompts users to play along with the audio recording, wherein the prompts comprise at least one of a visual or aural representation of at least one aspect of the music associated with the audio recording; enabling a first user to synchronize the at least one musical enhancement to the audio recording; and enabling a first user to store the at least one synchronized musical enhancement; and prompting at least one of the first user or a second user to play along with the audio recording by playing the audio recording synchronously with the stored synchronized musical enhancement. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for enabling users to create musical enhancements that prompt users to play along with an audio recording, the system being configured to:
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enable a first user to create at least one musical enhancement that prompts users to play along with the audio recording, wherein the prompts comprise at least one of a visual or aural representation of at least one aspect of the music associated with the audio recording; enable a first user to synchronize the at least one musical enhancement to the audio recording; and enable a user to store the at least one synchronized musical enhancement; and prompting at least one of the first user or a second user to play along with the audio recording by playing the audio synchronously with the stored synchronized musical enhancement. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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