Patent ID: 7314991

Claim:
A method of conveying musical information, the method comprising: (a) designating a numeric value of vibrations per second (vps) for each pitch of a first group of pitches in an even-tempered, Western-style, twelve-tone group of musical pitches; wherein each numeric value is a fixed identity of its corresponding pitch; (b) designating a corresponding number of vibrations per second in recurring groups of twelve pitches in the even-tempered, Western-style, twelve-tone group of musical pitches, wherein in each recurring group, the number of vibrations per second per pitch is integrally proportional or integrally inversely proportional to the corresponding vibrations per second in the first group of pitches; (c) designating white and black keys of a piano keyboard as a visual diagram representing the pitches designated by steps (a) and (b); (d) designating tonal relationships utilized in composing music in the even-tempered, twelve-tone system of Western music as music vocabulary; (e) defining the music vocabulary of step (d) as structural forms represented by a fixed interval distance between each piano key in a selected group of piano keys, which distance remains identical from any designated location on the piano keyboard; (f) assigning seven sequential numeric designations, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 , as a system of reference to the physical location of a corresponding selected group of seven piano keys on the piano keyboard, wherein the sequential numeric designations correspond to a defined physical distance and interval relationship between each piano key in the selected group of seven piano keys, and also correspond to the first group of pitches of step (a); (g) designating keyboard diagrams of structural forms of hand movements as motion templates visually representing defined motions of a player's hands to perform music vocabulary templates in pre-set tonal orders and patterns of rhythm, the motion templates providing a structural form of hand movements which remain identical from any physical location on the piano keyboard, wherein the physical location of the motion template on the piano keyboard is designated by a single numeric symbol; (h) modeling a musical passage by compiling a pattern of printed or electronically-stored indicia of one or more numeric designations selected from the group consisting of the numeric designations of step (g) and then (i) providing the model of step (h) to a student via visual or auditory means.