Music teaching device and method

• US 9,159,306 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2015
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Andre M. Lippens, Luc Lippens
• Original Assignee: Andre M. Lippens
• Inventors: Lippens, Andr M., Lippens, Luc
• Primary Examiner(s): HORN, ROBERT WAYNE
• Application Number:
  US14/623,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20150248878A1
• Time in Patent Office: 238 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 15/002 Electrically operated systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 15/02 Boards or like means for providing an indication of notes
• CPC Class Codes: G10C 3/12 Keyboards; Keys
• CPC Class Codes: G10G 1/00 Means for the representation of music
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0016 Means for indicating which keys, frets or strings are to be actuated, e.g. using lights or leds
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/015 Musical staff, tablature or score displays, e.g. for score reading during a performance
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/241 on touchscreens, i.e. keys, frets, strings, tablature or staff displayed on a touchscreen display for note input purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/251 arranged as 2D or 3D arrays; Keyboards ergonomically organised for playing chords or for transposing, e.g. Janko keyboard

Abstract

A novel music tablature corresponding to Janko-type keyboard with touch plates having coloring different from traditional keyboards is provided.

Claims

1. A musical tablature system for a Janko-type keyboard having three to six horizontal rows each comprising multitude of touch plates and wherein touch plates for natural notes are colored with one color and touch plates for accidental notes are colored with another color, said system comprising:

a treble staff and a bass staff, said staves comprising at least two horizontal C-lines and a G-space in between the lines;

the G-space being divided in three horizontal sections representing upper border of the G-space immediately below the C-line, middle part of the G-space and lower border of the G-space immediately above of the C-line; and

one or more notes positioned either on the C-line, in the middle part of the G-space, on the lower border of the G-space, or on the upper border of the G-space, said notes having an oval head or a triangular head, wherein each oval headed note on same position as the triangular headed note is half a tone lower than the triangular headed note, and wherein oval notes correspond with first, third and fifth rows of the keyboard, and the triangular headed notes correspond with second, fourth and sixth row of the keyboard.

2. The tablature system of claim 1, wherein accidental notes have a color corresponding to color of the accidental keys on the keyboard, and natural notes have a color corresponding with the color of natural keys on the keyboard.

3. The musical tablature of claim 1, wherein the staves have three C-lines and two G-spaces.

4. The musical tablature of claim 2, wherein natural notes are blue and accidental notes are black.

5. The musical tablature of claim 1, wherein the C-lines are thicker than lines dividing the G-spaces to three sections.