---
license: mit
tags:
- guitar
- mir
- midi
- transcription
- musicxml
size_categories:
- n<1K
---
# GAPS Dataset (Guitar-Aligned Performance Scores)

- [Metadata (Google Sheets)](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vxhLMUoAFNPZSRsakqBATSs9f2BDJS0Jb3dbA65v5p0/edit?usp=sharing)
- [Paper (ArXiv)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08653)

300 solo guitar performances with accurately aligned MIDI and musicxml scores.

## Update: version 1.1

- audio now included
- fixed scorehash case sensitive clashes (thanks Daniel Wägner for pointing this out)

## Abstract

> We introduce GAPS (Guitar-Aligned Performance Scores), a new dataset of classical guitar performances, and a benchmark guitar transcription model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on GuitarSet in both supervised and zero-shot settings. GAPS is the largest dataset of real guitar audio, containing 14 hours of freely available audio-score aligned pairs, recorded in diverse conditions by over 200 performers, together with high-resolution note-level MIDI alignments and performance videos. These enable us to train a state-of-the-art model for automatic transcription of solo guitar recordings which can generalise well to real world audio that is unseen during training.