Since more and more families have a personal computer at home, why couldn't they use it to learn music ?
The first time I told a musician about my intentions to realise a virtual music teacher, he seemed to be a bit shocked and answered me : ``Why ? Do you want the musicians to become robots ?''. It is then important to say that our goal is not to replace a real music teacher: music will always need feelings, that are so far not easy to express with a computer.Virtual Music Teacher means a system which would help musicians to train at home, by detecting and explaining their errors.
So far, there are no existing systems in this area. We can find a lot of teaching softwares, error detection systems and music software, but none allows to realise error detection on a music piece. I hope this project will help for future work in the domain.