Most discussion among players of the modern classical guitar regarding the early 19century guitar has been backward looking, that is, either looking at ways of playing this repertoire on a modern instrument in a modern style, or how to imitate the stylistic features of the period on a modern guitar. I will focus instead on coming towards Sor and his contemporaries from before their period, as c...

Using a wah-wah pedal guitar is something guitar players have to learn. Recently, more intuitive ways to control such effect have been proposed. In this direction, the Wahwactor system controls a wah-wah transformation in real-time using the guitar player's voice, more precisely, using the performer [wa-wa] utterances. To come up with this system, different vocal features derived from spectral ...

This paper presents a vision-based method for tracking guitar fingerings played by guitar players from stereo cameras. We propose a novel framework for colored finger markers tracking by integrating a Bayesian classifier into particle filters, with the advantages of performing automatic track initialization and recovering from tracking failures in a dynamic background. ARTag (Augmented Reality ...

In this paper we present a series of algorithms developed to detect the following guitar playing techniques : bend, hammer-on, pull-off, slide, palm muting and harmonic. Detection of playing techniques can be used to control external content (i.e audio loops and effects, videos, light events, etc.), as well as to write real-time score or to assist guitar novices in their learning process. The g...

The analysis of expressive performance, an important research topic in Computer Music, is almost exclusively devoted to the study of Western Classical piano music. Instruments like the acoustic guitar and styles like Bossa Nova and Samba have been little studied, despite their harmonic and rhythmic richness. This paper describes some experimental results obtained with the extraction of rhythmic...

The electric guitar has been developed to withstand electric amplification and utilize (mostly analog) signal processing in order to create a multitude of timbres and sound types. Sometimes it would be desirable to play the same electric guitar, yet with a sound that resembles a good acoustic guitar or some other member of the plucked string instrument family. In this sudy we have investigated ...

We are developing systems which play music on synthesized plucked strings instruments idiomatically. The present paper introduces a system focusing on the acoustic guitar. The system is programmed with rules embodying the architecture of the guitar and the respective biomechanical constraints of a performer. These rules define the types of musical gestures that are played by the system: only th...

Digital simulation of guitar tube amplifiers is still an opened topic. The efficient implementation of several parts of the guitar amplifier is presented in this paper. This implementation is based on the pre-computation of the solution of the nonlinear differential system and further approximation of the solution. It reduces the computational complexity while the accuracy is comparable with th...

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