Automatic Transcription of Guitar Chords and Fingering from Audio

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 915-921

  Barbancho, Ana M ^a   Tardón, Lorenzo J ^a   Barbancho, Isabel ^a   Klapuri, Anssi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85008565032     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2174227     Document Type: Article

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