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Recently, symbolic music generation with deep learning techniques has witnessed steady improvements. Most works on this topic focus on MIDI representations, but less attention has been paid to symbolic music generation using guitar…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Pedro Sarmento , Adarsh Kumar , Yu-Hua Chen , CJ Carr , Zack Zukowski , Mathieu Barthet

GuitarPro format tablatures are a type of digital music notation that encapsulates information about guitar playing techniques and fingerings. We introduce ShredGP, a GuitarPro tablature generative Transformer-based model conditioned to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Pedro Sarmento , Adarsh Kumar , Dekun Xie , CJ Carr , Zack Zukowski , Mathieu Barthet

The automation of guitar tablature generation from video inputs holds significant promise for enhancing music education, transcription accuracy, and performance analysis. Existing methods face challenges with consistency and completeness,…

We propose a transformer-based rhythm quantization model that incorporates beat and downbeat information to quantize MIDI performances into metrically-aligned, human-readable scores. We propose a beat-based preprocessing method that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Maximilian Wachter , Sebastian Murgul , Michael Heizmann

We present a sequential transfer learning framework for transformers on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data and demonstrate its significant benefits for decoding musical timbre. In the first of two phases, we pre-train our…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-23 Sean Paulsen , Michael Casey

In this paper, we propose a new dataset named EGDB, that con-tains transcriptions of the electric guitar performance of 240 tab-latures rendered with different tones. Moreover, we benchmark theperformance of two well-known transcription…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yu-Hua Chen , Wen-Yi Hsiao , Tsu-Kuang Hsieh , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang , Yi-Hsuan Yang

In recent years, the task of Automatic Music Transcription (AMT), whereby various attributes of music notes are estimated from audio, has received increasing attention. At the same time, the related task of Multi-Pitch Estimation (MPE)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Frank Cwitkowitz , Toni Hirvonen , Anssi Klapuri

Although the automatic identification of the optimal fingering for the performance of melodies on fretted string instruments has already been addressed (at least partially) in the literature, the specific case regarding lead electric guitar…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Pierluigi Bontempi , Daniele Manerba , Alexandre D'Hooge , Sergio Canazza

In this paper we present mathematical and physical models to be used in the analysis of the problem of intonation of musical instruments such as guitars, mandolins and the like, i.e., we study how to improve the tuning on these instruments.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-01-26 Gabriele U. Varieschi , Christina M. Gower

In Music Information Retrieval (MIR), modeling and transforming the tone of musical instruments, particularly electric guitars, has gained increasing attention due to the richness of the instrument tone and the flexibility of expression.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Kuan-Yu Chen , Kuan-Lin Chen , Yu-Chieh Yu , Jian-Jiun Ding

In this paper, we explore the tokenized representation of musical scores using the Transformer model to automatically generate musical scores. Thus far, sequence models have yielded fruitful results with note-level (MIDI-equivalent)…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Masahiro Suzuki

We consider the problem of learning high-level controls over the global structure of generated sequences, particularly in the context of symbolic music generation with complex language models. In this work, we present the Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Monica Dinculescu , Jesse Engel

Generative models have been successfully applied to image style transfer and domain translation. However, there is still a wide gap in the quality of results when learning such tasks on musical audio. Furthermore, most translation models…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Adrien Bitton , Philippe Esling , Axel Chemla-Romeu-Santos

Music annotation has always been one of the critical topics in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Traditional models use supervised learning for music annotation tasks. However, as supervised machine learning approaches…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Yilun Zhao , Jia Guo

Symbolic music is widely used in various deep learning tasks, including generation, transcription, synthesis, and Music Information Retrieval (MIR). It is mostly employed with discrete models like Transformers, which require music to be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Nathan Fradet , Nicolas Gutowski , Fabien Chhel , Jean-Pierre Briot

Self-attention is an attention mechanism that learns a representation by relating different positions in the sequence. The transformer, which is a sequence model solely based on self-attention, and its variants achieved state-of-the-art…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Minz Won , Sanghyuk Chun , Xavier Serra

Generating multi-instrument music from symbolic music representations is an important task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). A central but still largely unsolved problem in this context is musically and acoustically informed control in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Ben Maman , Johannes Zeitler , Meinard Müller , Amit H. Bermano

MIDI velocity is crucial for capturing expressive dynamics in human performances. In practical scenarios, a music score with inaccurate velocities may be available alongside the performance audio (e.g., music education and free online…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Zhanhong He , Roberto Togneri , David Huang

Tablature notation is widely used in popular music to transcribe and share guitar musical content. As a complement to standard score notation, tablatures transcribe performance gesture information including finger positions and a variety of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Alexandre D'Hooge , Louis Bigo , Ken Déguernel

Originating in the Renaissance and burgeoning in the digital era, tablatures are a commonly used music notation system which provides explicit representations of instrument fingerings rather than pitches. GuitarPro has established itself as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Pedro Sarmento , Adarsh Kumar , CJ Carr , Zack Zukowski , Mathieu Barthet , Yi-Hsuan Yang