Patent ID: RE39811

Claim:
A recording device for recording musical information of a music piece onto a recording medium having address information previously recorded thereon said device comprising: tempo designation means for designating a tempo of a music piece to be recorded; meter designation means for designating meter of said music piece; rhythm generation means for generating, in light or sound, a rhythm corresponding to the tempo and meter designated by said tempo and meter designation means; start timing instruction means for instructing timing to start performance of said music piece; input means for inputting musical information of said music piece; music piece recording means for recording, onto the recording medium, the musical information of said music piece input by said input means; start address retrieval means for retrieving, as a start address of said music piece, the address information read out from the recording medium when the timing to start performance of said music piece is instructed by said instruction means, and tempo, meter and start address recording means for recording, onto a predetermined recording area of the recording medium, information indicative of the tempo and meter designated by said tempo and meter designation means and the start address retrieved by said retrieval means.