Practica: A Music Education Application for Learning Jazz Improvisation
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Author(s)
Fiksinski, Julia
Advisor(s)
Egozy, Eran
Date Issued
September 2021
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
We present Practica, a music education application which combines the user experience of a play-along practice application, the functionality of a melody transcription program, and the soloing tips and harmonic analysis that a music student might receive from an instructor. The user can read soloing tips and introductions to harmonic analysis, record themselves soloing over a backing track, and view transcriptions of their solos with different analysis modes applied in the form of color-coded notes. We develop an audio processing and transcription pipeline to generate sheet music for solo recordings. We examine how to present the subjective teaching and evaluation of improvisation in a programmatic manner. Two user studies suggest that Practica successfully presents students with an educational platform that empowers them to improve their musical abilities and explore jazz improvisation in a interactive and beginner-friendly format.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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