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Left and right-hand guitar playing techniques detection

Loïc Reboursière, Otso Lähdeoja, Thomas Drugman, Stéphane Dupont, Cécile Picard-Limpens, and Nicolas Riche

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

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 exter-nal 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 guitar used is a Godin Multiac with an under-saddle RMC hexaphonic piezo pickup (one pickup per string, i.e six mono signals).

Citation

Loïc Reboursière, Otso Lähdeoja, Thomas Drugman, Stéphane Dupont, Cécile Picard-Limpens, and Nicolas Riche. 2012. Left and right-hand guitar playing techniques detection. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1180575 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2012_Reboursiere,
author = {Loïc Reboursière and Otso Lähdeoja and Thomas Drugman and Stéphane Dupont and Cécile Picard-Limpens and Nicolas Riche},
title = {Left and right-hand guitar playing techniques detection},
pages = {7--10},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2012},
publisher = {University of Michigan},
address = {Ann Arbor, Michigan},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1180575},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2012/nime2012_213.pdf},
keywords = {Guitar audio analysis, playing techniques, hexaphonic pickup, controller, augmented guitar},
abstract = {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 exter-nal 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 guitar used is a Godin Multiac with an under-saddle RMC hexaphonic piezo pickup (one pickup per string, i.e six mono signals).}
}