Patent ID: 8664506

Claim:
An electronic percussion instrument comprising: a stick; and a main body section; wherein the stick includes: a detecting section which detects an acceleration and an angular speed based on movement of the stick; a first timing generating section which generates a beat timing based on a predetermined tempo and beat width; a first pre-sound-production movement detecting section which detects a pre-sound-production movement that is performed prior to sound production, based on the acceleration and the angular speed detected by the detecting section; a first judging section which judges whether or not the first pre-sound-production movement detecting section has detected the pre-sound-production movement between a predetermined amount of time before a preceding beat timing and a predetermined amount of time before a current beat timing; and a transmitting section which transmits a pre-sound-production movement detection signal, when the first judging section judges that the pre-sound-production movement has been detected; and wherein the main body section includes: a receiving section which receives the pre-sound-production movement detection signal transmitted from the stick; a second timing generating section which generates a beat timing based on a predetermined tempo and beat width; and a sound production instructing section which instructs to produce a sound at the beat timing generated by the second timing generating section, when the receiving section receives the pre-sound-production movement detection signal.