Patent ID: 8986090
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: A63F,G09B,G10H

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium with a computer program stored thereon, wherein the computer program is operable to present a game for instructing a user on playing of an acoustic or an electric guitar, wherein the acoustic or electric guitar is a musical instrument having at least one string configured to vibrate, wherein the computer program instructs a processor to perform the following steps: present, on an electronic display, the game comprising a graphical representation including a plurality of fingering notations corresponding to notes or chords of a song to be played on the acoustic or electric guitar and by the user, wherein each said note or chord is associated with a predetermined data file having tonal information for the note or chord, wherein each said fingering notation is associated with a corresponding string of the acoustic or electric guitar, such that each said fingering notation instructs the user to depress or not depress, depending on said note or chord to be played, the corresponding string of the acoustic or electric guitar; receive, via the processor, output data corresponding to an electronic signal produced by the acoustic or electric guitar as played by the user during the game, wherein at least a portion of the output data is produced by a vibration of said at least one string; compare, via the processor, the received output data against said predetermined data file for the note or chord visually depicted by the one or more fingering notations; assess, via the processor, an accuracy of play during the game and by the user of the note or chord visually depicted by the one or more fingering notations, wherein the assessed accuracy of play during the game is based, at least in part, on the comparison of the received output data against said predetermined data file; present, on the electronic display or via an audio signal, an evaluation of the user's accuracy of play during the game of at least a portion of said notes or chords; select, via the processor, an exercise to instruct the user in playing the acoustic or electric guitar to improve the user's accuracy of play of the acoustic or electric guitar, wherein the exercise is selected or created by the processor based upon the user's assessed accuracy of play during the game; present, on the electronic display, an option for the user to perform said exercise; receive, via the processor, a selection by the user to perform said exercise; and present, on the electronic display, the exercise, wherein the exercise increases or decreases a frequency or a number of presented fingering notations relative to the assessed accuracy of play of the song.