Jazz guitar solos are improvised melody lines played on one instrument on top of a chordal accompaniment (comping). As the improvisation happens spontaneously, a reference score is non-existent, only a lead sheet. There are situations, however, when one would like to have the original melody lines in the form of notated music, see the Real Book. The motivation is either for the purpose of pract...

The task of separating a single recording of a polyphonic instrument (e.g. piano, guitar, etc.) into distinctive pitch tracks is challenging. One promising class of methods to accomplish this task is based on non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). Such methods, however, are still far from perfect. Distinct pitches from a single instrument have similar timbre, similar note attacks, and contain...

1 Motivation 1.1 A goal : the numerical modeling of the guitar This work is concerned with sound synthesis, the goal of which is to reproduce numerically the sound of musical instruments. We are interested in the study of the guitar. In our model the soundboard is coupled to one or more strings by means of a bridge. The soundboard is itself coupled with an open air cavity and the outer air. The...

Music recommendation systems built on top of music information retrieval (MIR) technologies are usually designed to provide new ways to discover and listen to digital music collections. However, they do not typically assist in another important aspect of musical activity, music learning. In this study we present the application Hotttabs, an online music recommendation system dedicated to guitar...

This study investigated people's sensitivity to audiovisual asynchrony in briefly-presented speech and musical videos. A series of speech (letters and syllables) and guitar and piano music (single and double notes) video clips were presented randomly at a range of stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) using the method of constant stimuli. Participants made unspeeded temporal order judgments (TOJs)...