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US 10,964,227 B2Granted
System for creating, practicing and sharing of musical harmonies
AssigneeHarmony Helper, LLC
InventorsAndrew Goren, Michael Holroyd, Lindsay Ifill
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Abstract
Collaboratively creating musical harmonies includes receiving a user selection of a particular harmony. In response to this selection, there is displayed on a display screen of a computing device a plurality of musical note indicators or notes to specify a first harmony part of a musical piece to be performed. Real-time pitch detection is used to determine a pitch of each note which is voiced by a person, and a graphic indication of the actual pitch which is sung is displayed in conjunction with the musical note indicators.
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A method for collaboratively creating musical harmonies, comprising:
- responsive to a user selection, displaying on a display screen of a computing device a plurality of musical note indicators, in human readable form, which specify a first harmony part of a musical composition, and at least a second harmony part of the same musical composition which is different as compared to the first harmony part;
- providing on the display screen a timing indication to indicate a time when each of the plurality of musical note indicators is to be sung in accordance with the first and second harmony parts;
- receiving at the computing device a voiced rendition of the first harmony part;
- converting the voiced rendition to an electronic audio signal;
- automatically processing the electronic audio signal with the computing device using a real-time pitch detection algorithm to determine a pitch of each voiced note of the voiced rendition;
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- concurrent with rendition of each said voiced note, automatically displaying on the display screen in conjunction with the plurality of musical note indicators, a corresponding graphic indicator which indicates whether the pitch of the voiced note accurately matches a pitch specified by a corresponding one of the musical note indicators for the first harmony part;
- wherein the plurality of musical note indicators which specify at least one of the first harmony part and the second harmony part are automatically transcribed in at least a second computing device from a creative voice rendition of at least one of the first harmony part and the second harmony part, and a data result of the automatic transcribing are subsequently imported into the computing device;
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- wherein the note transcription algorithm determines transcribed musical notes by determining a shortest path through a graph network and the real-time pitch detection algorithm determines the pitch of each voiced note of the voiced rendition by applying a constant-Q transform.
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A method for collaboratively creating musical harmonies, comprising:
- responsive to a monophonic voiced rendition of a first harmony part of a musical composition, using a note transcription algorithm to automatically transcribe in a first computing device a plurality of musical note indicators which specify the first harmony part;
- displaying on a display screen of a second computing device the plurality of musical note indicators which have been transcribed, and at least a second harmony part of the same musical composition which is different as compared to the first harmony part;
- providing on the display screen a timing indication to indicate a time when each of the plurality of musical note indicators is to be sung in accordance with the first and second harmony parts;
- receiving at the second computing device a voiced rendition of the first harmony part;
- converting the voiced rendition to an electronic audio signal;
- automatically processing the electronic audio signal with the second computing device using a real-time pitch detection algorithm to determine a pitch of each voiced note of the voiced rendition;
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- concurrent with rendition of each said voiced note, automatically displaying on the display screen in conjunction with the plurality of musical note indicators, a corresponding graphic indicator which indicates whether the pitch of the voiced note accurately matches a pitch specified by a corresponding one of the musical note indicators for the first harmony part;
- wherein the note transcription algorithm and the real-time pitch detection algorithm are different;
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- wherein the note transcription algorithm determines transcribed musical notes by determining a shortest path through a graph network and the real-time pitch detection algorithm determines the pitch of each voiced note of the voiced rendition by applying a constant-Q transform.
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