VisualChord: A Personal Tutor for Guitar Learners

This paper describes VisualChord, a Web application, as personal tutor of initiation to the guitar that based on agents architecture that extracts files, tablatures and songs from Internet repositories, normalizing by rules and with a disambiguation algorithm to be stored in the internal repository with semantic tagging including a difficulty measure for each piece. This allows the user to training with a personalized music pieces selection with his/her guitar. There tries to offer a small personalized and flexible tutor who adapts to the tastes and aptitudes of the user. We describe the VisualChord platform, discuss the architecture, and describe some usability test and results with information about acquiring and making use of this develop.