Patent ID: 7663044

Claim:
A musical performance self-training apparatus for supporting a player by displaying a performance instruction information on a display means, comprising: a unit designating means for designating a unit from plural units, wherein the plural units constitute a music to be performed and each unit includes a predetermined size of musical tone information; a performance instruction information generating means for generating a performance instruction information based on the musical tone information of the unit which is designated by the unit designating means; and a lesson menu generating means for generating an image information of a lesson menu which has a score of a music to be played and of units corresponding to the score, and outputting the image information to the display means, wherein the unit designating means designates a unit automatically, the designated unit corresponding to a score of performance instruction information to be displayed next, wherein the lesson menu having the units corresponding to the score to include a wider range of musical tone information as a skill level of the player becomes higher, is displayed according to the skill level of the player corresponding to the score, and wherein the unit designating means designates a unit to be played at the earliest timing, in which performance thereof has not reached a predetermined acceptable standard, from the units on the lesson menu, as a unit of which performance instruction is to be displayed next, and when performance of all units in a same skill level has reached the predetermined acceptable standard, the unit of which performance instruction is to be displayed next is selected from units in an upper ranking skill level than the current skill level and is designated.