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. 

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Publications

  • Torin Hopkins and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. Jam Tabs: A Color Based Notation System for Novice Improvisation (to appear) In Proceedings of International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR'20) (Hamburg, Germany–May 12-14, 2020). (Due to COVID-19, conference moved to 2021; proceedings published in 2020).