Music instruction system

A device comprising:

• one or more memories to store instructions;
• and
• one or more processors to execute the instructions in the one or more memories to:
• receive a user selection of a musical piece;
• provide performance cues to a user to perform musical events associated with the musical piece on a musical instrument, wherein the performance cues are synchronized to expert performance data of the musical piece, and wherein the expert performance data includes a pre-recorded audio track;
• provide the expert performance data to the user;
• receive audio data from the musical instrument, wherein the audio data comprises user-performed musical events;
• detect fundamental frequencies associated with the user-performed musical events;
• determine an extent to which the user-performed musical events have been correctly or incorrectly performed based on one or more musical characteristic tolerances associated with the musical events;
• and
• provide real-time or near real-time visual feedback and/or audio feedback to the user, by controlling an output level of the expert performance data that includes the pre-recorded audio track, that indicates the extent to which the user-performed musical events have been correctly or incorrectly performed based on the determining.

A computer-readable medium containing instructions executable by at least one processor, the computer-readable medium storing instructions to:

• receive a user selection of a musical piece;
• provide performance cues to a user to perform musical events associated with the musical piece on a musical instrument, wherein the performance cues are synchronized to expert performance data of the musical piece, wherein the expert performance data includes a pre-recorded audio track;
• provide the expert performance data to the user;
• receive audio data from the musical instrument, wherein the audio data comprises user-performed musical events;
• determine whether to detect fundamental frequencies associated with the user-performed musical events based on at least one of the audio data or the musical instrument;
• determine an extent to which the user-performed musical events have been correctly or incorrectly performed;
• and
• provide feedback to the user indicating the extent to which the user-performed musical events have been correctly performed based on the determining, wherein the feedback includes controlling an output level of the expert performance data that includes the pre-recorded audio track that is output to the user during a session.