System and method for creating, revising and providing a music lesson over a communications network

Abstract

A system and method for creating, revising, archiving and providing a music lesson over a communications network comprises a teacher station controlled by a teacher, one or more student stations each controlled by a student and an administrative station connected to the teacher and student stations that facilitates the transfer of a lesson file over a communications network. The teacher station comprises a computer and a lesson creator/reviser program executable by the computer that can generate a lesson file representing the audio and visual content of a music lesson. The lesson creator/reviser program comprises various modules that receive the audio and/or visual lesson content and correspondingly generate sub-files that form the lesson file. More specifically, a syncedit module can generate an audio-notation sub-file by simultaneously receiving digital audio data and MIDI data representing a piece of music, generating dynamic visual display data of the music and allowing a teacher to quickly and easily revise the dynamic visual display data so that the lesson content can be provided to students in substantially real time. The student station comprises a computer and a lesson viewer program executable by the computer that includes an audio-notation viewer module to play and display the audio-notation sub-file such that the digital audio data and dynamic visual display data are in sync with each other to show the student the note or notes being played as the student hears the note or notes.

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