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A new multiformat rhythm game for music tutoring

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In this paper, a new rhythm based game for tutored music learning is presented. The main differences with similar existing systems are: i) songs can be automatically extracted from any music file or printed score; ii) it works with multiple interfaces, ranging from any MIDI controller to most popular game controllers; iii) note sequences are obtained from the melody itself rather than from time features alone. The whole system has been successfully tested for different songs using different combinations of music instances and game controllers.

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  1. Sample videos are uploading in ATIC group, http://www.atic.uma.es/Videos/Multiformatrhythmgamemusictutoring/MultiformatRhythmGameVideosamples.html, last retrieved 11/11/2014

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This work has been funded by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of the Spanish Government under Project No. TIN2013-47276-C6-2-R and Project No. TEC2011-29106, by the Junta de Andalucía under Project No. P11-TIC-7154 and Project No. TIC-7839. The authors are grateful to the person in charge of the Archivo de la Catedral de Málaga, who allowed the utilization of the data sets used in this work. Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.

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    José Jaime, Isabel Barbancho, Cristina Urdiales, Lorenzo J. Tardón & Ana M. Barbancho

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Jaime, J., Barbancho, I., Urdiales, C. et al. A new multiformat rhythm game for music tutoring. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 4349–4362 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2478-8

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