Automatic transcription of guitar tablature from audio signals in accordance with player's proficiency

Kazuki Yazawa; Katsutoshi Itoyama; Hiroshi G. Okuno

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854175

Automatic transcription of guitar tablature from audio signals in accordance with player's proficiency

Kazuki Yazawa, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Hiroshi G. Okuno

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

13 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

We describe a method for automatically transcribing guitar tablatures from audio signals in accordance with the player's proficiency for use as support for a guitar player's practice. The system estimates the multiple pitches in each time frame and the optimal fingering considering playability and player's proficiency. It combines a conventional multipitch estimation method with a basic dynamic programming method. The difficulty of the fingerings can be changed by tuning the parameter representing the relative weights of the acoustical reproducibility and the fingering easiness. Experiments conducted using synthesized guitar audio signals to evaluate the transcribed tablatures in terms of the multipitch estimation accuracy and fingering easiness demonstrated that the system can simplify the fingering with higher precision of multipitch estimation results than the conventional method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	3122-3126
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9781479928927
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854175
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014 - Florence Duration: 2014 May 4 → 2014 May 9

Other

Other	2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
City	Florence
Period	14/5/4 → 14/5/9

Keywords

Dynamic programming (DP)
guitar tablature transcription
multipitch estimation
music signal processing
performance proficiency

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Signal Processing
Software
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Yazawa, K., Itoyama, K., & Okuno, H. G. (2014). Automatic transcription of guitar tablature from audio signals in accordance with player's proficiency. In ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings (pp. 3122-3126). [6854175] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854175

Automatic transcription of guitar tablature from audio signals in accordance with player's proficiency. / Yazawa, Kazuki; Itoyama, Katsutoshi; Okuno, Hiroshi G.

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 3122-3126 6854175.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Yazawa, K, Itoyama, K & Okuno, HG 2014, Automatic transcription of guitar tablature from audio signals in accordance with player's proficiency. in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings., 6854175, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 3122-3126, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014, Florence, 14/5/4. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854175

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