STICK TRACK: a System Generating Musical Score for Drums Indicating the Hitting Hand

Abstract

On playing drums, it is important to master the correct stroking order. Drummers are required to learn the drum rudiment to play drums efficiently. Generally, musical scores for drums do not have the annotation that indicates which hand drummers use to stroke each drum, left or right. Although drum teachers handwrite such annotation on the musical score, there is not the system that generates the musical score indicating the hitting hand on playing drums automatically. In this research, we proposed a musical score generating system that indicates the hitting hand to stroke each drum. Our proposed STICK TRACK recognizes the hitting hand on the basis of the data of a gyro sensor that are embedded in the drum sticks and MIDI message from an electronic drum. We constructed the prototype system and evaluated its effectiveness.