Musical performance guiding device and method for musical instruments

A musical performance guiding device comprising:

• a performance data supplying unit that supplies performance data including pairs of tone pitch designating data and tone volume controlling data;
• an indicating unit that, on the basis of the performance data supplied via said performance data supplying unit, makes a performance guiding indication indicative of a tone pitch designated by the tone pitch designating data;
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• an indication mode control that performs control such that the performance guiding indication is made in a first mode when the tone volume controlling data included in the supplied performance data is of a value equal to or smaller than a predetermined value but is made in a second mode when the tone volume controlling data is of a value greater than the predetermined value.

A musical performance guiding device comprising:

• a performance data supplying unit that supplies performance data including pairs of tone pitch designating data and tone volume controlling data;
• an indicating unit that, on the basis of the performance data supplied via said performance data supplying unit, makes a performance guiding indication indicative of a tone pitch designated by the pitch designating data;
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• an indication mode control that divides values of the tone volume controlling data not greater than a predetermined value into a plurality of value groups and that, when the tone volume controlling data included in the performance data supplied via said performance data supplying unit is of a value not greater than the predetermined value, changes a mode of the performance guiding indication depending on a value group to which the tone volume controlling data included in the supplied performance data belongs.

A musical performance guiding device comprising:

• a performance data supplying unit that supplies performance data including pairs of tone pitch designating data and tone volume controlling data;
• an indicating unit that, on the basis of the performance data supplied via said performance data supplying unit, makes a performance guiding indication indicative of a pitch designated by the tone pitch designating data;
• an information inputting unit that receives guide mode setting information for setting an optional guide mode from among a plurality of guide modes;
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• an indication mode control that changes a mode of the performance guiding indication in accordance with a combination of the guide mode set by the guide mode setting information and a value of the tone volume controlling data included in the supplied performance data.

A musical performance guiding method comprising the steps of:

• supplying actual performance data including pairs of pitch data designating a pitch of a tone to be performed and tone volume controlling data of audible level;
• supplying fake performance data including pairs of pitch data designating a pitch of a tone to be performed and tone volume controlling data of non-audible level, in advance of the actual performance data;
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• in response to the supplied fake performance data, making a preliminary indication as a guide for performance of the pitch designated by the pitch designating data of the fake performance data.

A musical performance guiding method comprising the steps of:

• supplying a series of performance data that comprise actual performance data including pairs of pitch data designating a pitch of a tone to be performed and tone volume designating data of audible level designating a volume of the tone and fake performance data including pairs of pitch data designating a pitch of a predetermined performance tone and tone volume controlling data of non-audible level, wherein the fake performance data for the performance tone is supplied in advance of the actual performance data for the performance tone;
• detecting that the tone volume controlling data included in the performance data is of a predetermined non-audible level, to thereby identify the performance data as the fake performance data;
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• in response to identification of the fake performance data, making a preliminary indication as a guide for performance of the pitch designated by the pitch data of the fake performance data.

A machine-readable recording medium containing a musical performance guiding program, said musical performance guiding program for causing a processor to execute the steps of:

• actual performance data including pairs of pitch data designating a pitch of a tone to be performed and tone volume controlling data of audible level, in corresponding relation to predetermined performance timing;
• supplying fake performance data including pairs of pitch data designating a pitch of a tone to be performed and tone volume controlling data of non-audible level, in advance of the actual performance data;
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• in response to the supplied fake performance data, making a preliminary indication as a guide for manual performance of the pitch designated by the pitch data of the fake performance data.

A machine-readable recording medium containing a musical performance guiding program, said musical performance guiding program for causing a processor to execute the steps of:

• supplying a series of performance data that comprise actual performance data including pairs of pitch data designating a pitch of a tone to be performed and tone volume controlling data of audible level and fake performance data including pairs of pitch data designating a pitch of a predetermined performance tone and tone volume controlling data of non-audible level, wherein the fake performance data for the performance tone is supplied in advance of the actual performance data for the performance tone;
• detecting that the tone volume controlling data included in the performance data is of a predetermined non-audible level, to thereby identify the performance data as the fake performance data;
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• in response to identification of the fake performance data, making a preliminary indication as a guide for performance of the pitch designated by the pitch data of the fake performance data.