Patent ID: 8158874
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: G10G

Abstract:
1. An electronic system for determining and displaying an appropriate tempo of an early piece of music to a user musician, said electronic system comprising: a memory constructed and arranged to store a plurality of tempo values corresponding to a plurality of sections of the piece of music and to; said memory comprising a lookup table for organizing multiple different tempo values; an interface into which a user enters parameters including common time mode, a time signature, a fastest note type, and a type of tempo words corresponding to a section of the piece of music; said interface including a user musician input device for entering parameters; a processor that determines the appropriate tempo for the section based upon the parameters; a data stream for relaying the parameters including tempo from the interface to the processor; a display, responsive to the processor, that provides the appropriate tempo to the user as at least one of an audible and visual beat, and for displaying each of the tempo values in sequence; and a switching mechanism coupled to said processor controlled by said user musician for switching between the different tempos stored in said lookup table during the piece of music.