Hummi-Com: A Composition-by-Humming System

Tetsuro Kitahara, Syohei Kimura, Yuu Suzuki, and Tomofumi Suzuki

Do you want to compose your original song? Composing original songs is one of the most exciting forms in enjoying music. However, it was difficult for musically untrained people, for example, those who cannot play an instrument. To enable you to compose songs, we developed a composition support system, called Hummi-Com, which automatically corrects your melody. Now, let's try composition with this system.


Figure 1 Screenshot of Hummi-Com (older version)

The issue in developing this system is how to detemine what notes should be corrected and how. We developed note correction rules that reduce musically inappropriate tones while retaining musically acceptable nonchord tones such as passing and neighbor tones.

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