Introduction

Tablature Notation

Flying in a Blue Dream, Joe Satriani.

Outline of this presentation

Assist Composition

Datasets

mysongbook.com
• Proprietary;
• Professional Transcriptions;
• 2115 .gp files;
• 308 different artists.

• Open for Research;
• Amateur Transcriptions;
• 26 181 .gp5 and tokenised files;
• 882 different artists.

Assist Composition

Guitar Chord Diagrams

Assist Composition

Rhythm Guitar Tablature Continuation Through Picking Pattern Generation

• Suggest possible continuation given a tablature prompt and a chord progression;
• If any chord position is missing, it can be suggested automatically (D'Hooge et al. 2024).

Publication in preparation. D'Hooge et al. (2024), Guitar Chord Diagram Suggestion for Western Popular Music, SMC.

House of the Rising Sun, The Animals.

• Accompaniment parts in WPM are often repetitive;
• Composers/Transcribers rely heavily on copy-pasting;
• Suggesting continuations can ease the writing process and possibly increase variations;
• Previous work lack chord progression controls (except McVicar et al. 2014).

Bacot et al. (2024), Enjeux du logiciel de tablatures dans l'acte de création en musiques actuelles : méthode d'entretien et analyse d'une pratique, JIM. McVicar et al. (2014), AutoRhythmGuitar: Computer-aided composition for Rhythm Guitar in the Tab Space, ICMC. Chen et al. (2020), Automatic Composition of Guitar Tabs by Transformers and Groove Modeling, ISMIR. Loth et al. (2023), ProgGP: From GuitarPro Tablature Neural Generation To Progressive Metal Production, CMMR. Sarmento et al. (2023), GTR-CTRL: Instrument and Genre Conditioning for Guitar-Focused Music Generation with Transformers, EvoMUSART.

Assist Composition

Rule-Based Model

Transformer Model

Online Survey for Subjective Evaluation

54 participants, biased towards Male from Western Europe, but a good age distribution from 18 to 65+.

• Rate 5 prompts' continuations from:
  • Reference
  • Rule-based
  • Transformer
• 7-point Likert scales on:
  • Playability
  • Consistency
  • Interest
  • Usability

• Preference for the rule-based model despite being less controllable;
• Training efficiency confirmed for transformer model;
• Future models should include dedicated tokens for muted notes;
• Prolonged use of the transformer model might be more appropriate for its evaluation

Assist Composition

Bass Tablature Accompaniment Generation

Olivier Anoufa

Assist Composition

Suggest Bends and Playing Techniques to Lead Guitarists

G.O.A.T., Polyphia.

Bend photo from musicradar.com.

Bend photo from musicradar.com.

Suggest bends to add expressiveness and increase idiomaticity.

Nocturne Op.9 No.2, Frédéric Chopin.

• Feature-based Approach
  • Rhythm
  • Pitch
  • Gesture
• Evaluate a note based on its neighbourhood

Four most important features:

• Pitch of current note;
• Pitch distance to next note;
• Pitch distance to previous note;
• Current note's duration.

Assist Learning and Practice

Assist Learning and Practice

Difficulty-informed Song Recommendations

• 
  Yohann Abbou
• 
  Mathieu Giraud
• 
  Gilles Guillemain
• 
  Aurélien Jeanneau
• Zakaria Hassein-Bey

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