Music Mania

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Music Mania
Educational Rhythm Game
Greg Kennedy Senior Design I
Problem
Impact

• Learning and practicing a new
• musical instrument can be a
• tedious process

• Users have fun learning an instrument
• and can easily track their progress

• Comments and feedback from the
• game will help users become better
• musicians.

• Current computer programs designed
• to teach music are somewhat
• inadequate

• Since the game display is in musical
• notation, users will learn to read
• music simply by playing along.

Approach

• Thesis A computer game where
• score is determined by musical
• proficiency would be fun and
• educational.

• Approach Users connect their
• instrument to the PC and play along,
• and the game returns a rating and
• helpful instruction to the user.

• How The game interprets notes through
• either MIDI input or pitch determination
• from an audio signal.