Patent ID: 8088986

Claim:
An electronic percussion musical instrument comprising: a music playing manipulation unit including a plurality of playing pads, each constituting a manipulating face zone for playing music by manipulating the face zone, the playing pads being capable of providing an ungrouped pad zone constituted by an individual playing pad among the plurality of playing pads and a grouped pad zone constituted by combining at least two of the playing pads among the plurality of playing pads into a grouped pad zone to work as an integral pad zone; a storage unit that stores plural timbres of musical tones; a musical tone allocating unit that allocates the musical tones stored in the storage unit to the ungrouped and/or grouped pad zones in predetermined correspondence; a music playing manipulation detecting unit that detects a music playing manipulation performed onto any of the pad zones; a musical tone generating unit that generates a musical tone allocated to the pad zone onto which the music playing manipulation is detected; and a pad chain setting unit that sets for a first pad zone to be manipulated a sequence of designations of at least two different pad zones including a sequence of the first pad zone followed by a second pad zone; wherein, when the first pad zone is manipulated by an initial music playing manipulation, as detected by the music playing manipulation detecting unit, the musical tone generating unit generates a first musical tone allocated to the first pad zone according to the sequence of designations set by the pad chain setting unit, and wherein, when the first pad zone is manipulated by a subsequent music playing manipulation immediately after the initial music playing manipulation, as detected by the music playing manipulation detecting unit, the musical tone generating unit generates a second musical tone allocated to the second pad zone according to the sequence of designations set by the pad chain setting unit.