IDMT-SMT-Bass

IDMT-SMT-Bass

Domain
Media	Audio
Size
Instances	4300 single recorded notes
File Format	WAV
Creation Date
Task	Transcription
Copyright	restricted
URL	http://www.idmt.fraunhofer.de/eng/business%20areas/dataset_bass_guitar.htm

Description

An audio database for bass transcription and signal processing.

Overall, 10 different bass-related playing techniques namely 5 plucking styles

• fingerstyle (FS)
• picked (PK)
• muted (MU)
• slap-thumb (ST)
• slap-pluck (SP)

and 5 expression styles

• normal (NO)
• vibrato (VI)
• bending (BE)
• harmonics (HA)
• dead-note (DN)

are incorporated.

3 different 4-string electric bass guitars, each with 3 different pick-up settings were used for recording.

The notes cover the common pitch range of a 4-string bass guitar from E1 (41.2 Hz) to G3 (196.0 Hz).

The data set consists of approx. 4300 WAV files (44.1 kHz, 24bit) with single recorded notes.

Copyright Remarks

Special End User Agreement required.

For details please visit http://www.idmt.fraunhofer.de/eng/business%20areas/dataset_bass_guitar.htm

Citation

Abeßer, Jakob; Lukashevich, Hanna; Schuller, Gerald:
Feature-based extraction of plucking and expression styles of the electric bass guitar, 
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2010.

External Links

http://www.idmt.fraunhofer.de/eng/business%20areas/dataset_bass_guitar.htm