Guitar Scores Interpretation

Transforming Audio into Guitar Tab Scores

Nowadays, many guitar players spend a lot of time searching on the Internet to find guitar tabs for pop songs. Many magazines and books make money on selling these guitar scores. Currently, the scores available online are those translated by professional guitarists. In this project, we try to design a system to generate playable guitar scores from audio. This system contains two major parts. First we use signal-processing technique to identify the frequency/pitch of each input note. Then, based on the pitch and timing of each note, we apply an algorithm to generate guitar tabs which are the most playable ones for amateurs. We take audio in wave format as input, which is the most common music format. Experiments are conducted by having some pop guitar songs as examples to evaluate the performance of our system. Discussions are also provided on these experiments.