Jam Tabs

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Jam Tabs is a musical collaboration system that can be used to coordinate improvised musical efforts by coloring instruments and incorporating a colored, omnidirectional music notation. Jam Tabs: A Color Based Notation System for Novice Improvisation, was published in the TENOR conference, a conference dedicated to new forms of musical notation.

ACME Lab

New form of music notation, Jam Tabs, displays tempo and chord through methodical use of color and information.

Associated Researchers

Publications

Torin Hopkins and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. "Jam Tabs: A Color Based Notation System for Novice Improvisation". In: Proceedings of International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR'20). (Hamburg, Germany, May 12-14, 2020).