A study of automated tablature generation for assisting learning playing the guitar

摘要

Since guitar is an instrument for which the ranges of the strings are tuned to be overlapped each other, a note can be played at several positions on its finger board. Because of this condition, it may take a lot of effort for beginners to find appropriate positions when they play the guitar. The tablature notation is therefore considered to be much effective for assisting learning playing the guitar, compared with the ordinal staff notation, which is used as the standard music score for guitar. This study proposes a method of automated tablature generation based on the knowledge of the fingering rules.