Patent ID: 9601127
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G10H,G10L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: using a portable computing device for vocal performance capture, the portable computing device having a touch screen, a microphone interface and a communications interface; responsive to a user selection on the touch screen, retrieving via the communications interface, a vocal score temporally synchronized with a corresponding backing track and lyrics, the vocal score encoding a sequence of target notes for at least part of a vocal performance of the user against the backing track; at the portable computing device, audibly rendering the backing track and concurrently presenting corresponding portions of the lyrics on a display in temporal correspondence therewith; capturing via the microphone interface, and in temporal correspondence with the backing track, the vocal performance of the user; applying at least one vocal effects schedule to the user's captured vocal performance; and computationally evaluating correspondence of at least a portion of the user's captured vocal performance with the vocal score to generate an evaluation result and, based on a threshold figure of merit and the evaluation result, awarding the user a license or access to at least a locked portion of the vocal effects schedule.