Abstract:

Learning music and all its aspects is not simple and clear at all. It takes a lot of effort and dedication on the part of the student to achieve satisfactory results. Due to the complexity of this learning process many students tend to give up, which motivates to create new strategies and methods that make all this learning friendlier.

The project described in this work aims to create a wireless console and an educational video game to reinvent the methodology of initiation to the trumpet’s teaching where the console simulates the typical three-piston trumpet block, and thereby simulates the instrument’s behavior. The console communicates with a device that integrates the educational video so the student could correlate the musical notes shown in the game with the relative position of the trumpet pistons. In this context, the present work proposes an ICT based platform to make trumpet teaching, both in the area of musical theory and practice of the instrument, more propitious and motivating.

The evaluation of the first version of the prototyped platform was made qualitatively using questionnaires, interviews and performative observation of various music teachers. The preliminary results revealed that all the involved teachers consider the proposed platform to be an innovative approach to the initiation to the trumpet’s teaching, improving the commitment and motivation of students.

Keywords:

Game-based learning, educational video game, game console, trumpet's initiation, music teaching.