An adapted bass guitar for one-handed playing
نویسندگان
چکیده
We present an attachment for the bass guitar which allows MIDI-controlled actuated fretting. This instrument adaptation is presented as a potential method of augmenting the bass guitar for those with upper-limb disabilities. Following a survey of 48 bassists, we found that timbral and dynamic features related to the plucking hand were most important to the survey respondents. We designed an actuated fretting mechanism to replace the role of the fretting hand in order to preserve plucking hand techniques. We conducted a performance study in which experienced bassists performed an accompaniment to a backing track with the adapted bass. This highlighted ways in which adapting a fretted string instrument in this way impacts plucking hand technique.
منابع مشابه
Automatic String Detection for Bass Guitar and Electric Guitar
In this paper, we present a feature-based approach to automatically estimate the string number in recordings of the bass guitar and the electric guitar. We perform different experiments to evaluate the classification performance on isolated note recordings. First, we analyze how factors such as the instrument, the playing style, and the pick-up settings affect the performance of the classificat...
متن کاملVirtuosity in Computational Performance
This is a research summary of Virtuosity in Computational Performance, addressing the question: How can a computer, as judged by a human audience, demonstrate virtuosity in computational performances with a physical model of a bass guitar? The proposed plan for this research is to develop a computational performance system which uses case-based reasoning and reflection to produce virtuosic perf...
متن کاملAutomatic Classification of Guitar Playing Modes
Musicians typically use various playing modes (bass lines, chord comping, solo melody improvisation) when they perform with their instrument. The design of augmented instruments calls for a precise understanding of such playing modes, from real-time analysis of musical input. In this context, the accuracy of mode classification is critical because it underlies the design of the whole interactio...
متن کاملParametric Audio Coding of Bass Guitar Recordings Using a Tuned Physical Modeling Algorithm
In this paper, we propose a parametric audio coding framework that combines the analysis and re-synthesis of electric bass guitar recordings. In particular, an existing synthesis algorithm that incorporates 11 playing techniques is extended by two calibration algorithms. Both the temporal and spectral decay parameters as well as the inharmonicity coefficient are set according to the fretboard p...
متن کاملAutomatic transcription of bass guitar tracks applied for music genre classification and sound synthesis
Music recordings most often consist of multiple instrument signals, which overlap in time and frequency. In the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), existing algorithms for the automatic transcription and analysis of music recordings aim to extract semantic information from mixed audio signals. In the last years, it was frequently observed that the algorithm performance is limited due to...
متن کامل