Comparison of Off-line Visual and Verbal Feedback Instructions for Keeping Tempo in Music

Authors
Hideyuki Tanaka1, *, Keita Ueda2
1
Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8524, Japan
2
Department of Education, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8524, Japan
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
Corresponding Author
Hideyuki Tanaka
Received 18 May 2018, Accepted 14 November 2018, Available Online 1 December 2018.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2018.5.3.14
Keywords
Rhythm in music; ability of keeping steady tempo; visual feedback; verbal feedback
Abstract
Ability of keeping the tempo is one of the important factors in playing music. In this paper, the authors carry out comparative experiments on the effects of off-line visual and verbal feedback instructions for informing the performance in trying to keep the tempo at 1 Hz by tapping the rhythm. The participants are divided into experienced and non-experienced groups. The results show that visual feedback may give too much information to experts of music and that experts can adjust the tempo by just using the verbal feedback.

Copyright
© 2018 The Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc/4.0/).

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