GuitarSet

About

Dataset for guitar transcription research from NYU MARL. ~3 hours of solo acoustic guitar recordings (360 excerpts, 6 players, various styles). Recorded with hexaphonic pickup providing per-string isolated audio plus a mono microphone. Comprehensive annotations: note pitches, onset/offset times, string assignments, fret positions, and playing techniques — all in JAMS format.

Relevance

The blueprint for creating a "BanjoSet" dataset. The methodology is directly transferable: (1) record banjo with per-string pickup, (2) run pitch tracking on isolated string signals for automatic annotation, (3) verify and add technique labels manually, (4) store in JAMS format. The template for what a high-quality transcription dataset looks like.

Mentions

• ../sources/2018-09-23-guitarset — paper
• ../entities/tabcnn — trained on GuitarSet
• ../concepts/musicxml-tab-notation — output format

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/marl/GuitarSet (160 stars)
• Format: JAMS (JSON Annotated Music Specification)