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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 10, 2026
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TART is a modular four-stage machine learning pipeline for automatic guitar-to-tablature transcription that reports improved performance metrics on four benchmark datasets compared to prior baselines. The system is the first reported to generate tablature with both fingering and expressive technique annotations, but the work is unrefereed and lacks independent validation, real-world deployment evidence, or evidence of utility to practicing musicians or educators.
Preprint. Guitar recordings from GuitarSet and EGDB benchmark datasets. Intervention: TART four-stage audio-to-tablature pipeline with expressive technique annotation. Compared with: Prior baseline systems for guitar audio-to-MIDI and string-fret assignment.
TART achieves 81.35% audio-to-MIDI F50, a gain of 6.67 percentage points over the best prior baseline TART achieves 71.8% string-fret Tab F1, a gain of 8.5 percentage points over the best prior baseline TART achieves 54.08% end-to-end Tab F1 performance
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Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) for guitar remains limited by three challenges: existing systems often fail to capture expressive techniques such as slides, bends, and percussive hits; they often assign notes to incorrect string-fret combinations; and they are typically trained on clean recordings, limiting their generalization to noisy real-world audio. To address these challenges, we propose TART, a modular four-stage audio-to-tablature pipeline consisting of (1) an audio-to-MIDI transcription model, (2) an expressive technique classifier, (3) an audio-conditioned T5 encoder-decoder for string-fret assignment, and (4) an automated tablature generator. We evaluate TART in a zero-shot setting on GuitarSet, EGDB, and two augmented benchmarks, Noisy GuitarSet and Noisy EGDB. Averaged across these four benchmarks, TART achieves 81.35% audio-to-MIDI F50 (+6.67 points over the best prior baseline), 71.8% string-fret Tab F1 (+8.5 points over the best prior baseline), and 54.08% end-to-end Tab F1. To our knowledge, TART is the first framework to generate guitar tablature with both fingering and expressive technique annotations directly from guitar audio.
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