{"url":"/dataset/guitarset","name":"GuitarSet","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"**GuitarSet** is a dataset of high-quality guitar recordings and rich annotations. It contains 360 excerpts 30 seconds in length. The 360 excerpts are the result of the following combinations:\n\n* 6 players,\n* 2 versions: comping and soloing,\n* 5 styles: Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Bossa Nova, Jazz, and Funk,\n* 3 progressions: 12 Bar Blues, Autumn Leaves, and Pachelbel Canon,\n* 2 tempi: slow and fast.\n\nEach excerpt is annotated with 6 pitch contour and midi note annotations (one per string), 2 chord annotations (instructed and performed), beat and tempo annotations.\n\nSource: [https://guitarset.weebly.com/](https://guitarset.weebly.com/)\nAudio Source: [https://zenodo.org/record/3371780](https://zenodo.org/record/3371780)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://guitarset.weebly.com/","introduced_date":"2018-01-01","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":null,"title":"GuitarSet: A Dataset for Guitar Transcription","first_author":null,"url":"https://guitarset.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/1/6/121620128/xi_ismir_2018.pdf"},"license":null,"modalities":[{"name":"Audio","url":"/datasets/modality/audio"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Information Retrieval","url":"/task/information-retrieval","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/information-retrieval"},{"name":"Beat Tracking","url":"/task/beat-tracking","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/beat-tracking"},{"name":"Downbeat Tracking","url":"/task/downbeat-tracking","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/downbeat-tracking"},{"name":"Contrastive Learning","url":"/task/contrastive-learning","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/contrastive-learning"},{"name":"Music Information Retrieval","url":"/task/music-information-retrieval","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/music-information-retrieval"}],"languages":[],"variants":["GuitarSet"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":31,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/beat-tracking-on-guitarset","task":"Beat Tracking","dataset_variant":"GuitarSet","rows":1,"metrics":["F1"],"first_row_in_archive_order":{"model":"Beat This!","paper":"/paper/beat-this-accurate-beat-tracking-without-dbn","metrics":{"F1":"92.0"},"code_links":[{"title":"CPJKU/beat_this","url":"https://github.com/CPJKU/beat_this"}]},"note":"rows are the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing here re-ranks them"},{"leaderboard":"/sota/downbeat-tracking-on-guitarset","task":"Downbeat Tracking","dataset_variant":"GuitarSet","rows":1,"metrics":["F1"],"first_row_in_archive_order":{"model":"Beat This!","paper":"/paper/beat-this-accurate-beat-tracking-without-dbn","metrics":{"F1":"88.1"},"code_links":[{"title":"CPJKU/beat_this","url":"https://github.com/CPJKU/beat_this"}]},"note":"rows are the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing here re-ranks them"}],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[{"paper":"/paper/beat-this-accurate-beat-tracking-without-dbn","title":"Beat this! Accurate beat tracking without DBN postprocessing","date":"2024-07-31","rows_on_this_dataset":2,"code_links":1,"syntology":null}],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}