Finding%20solos%20in%20music

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Finding solos in music

• Christine Smit

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What is a solo?

• a single note sounding at a time

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Why do this?

• solo finder instrument identifier
• instrument sample library

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What characterizes a solo?
non-solo
solo
non-solo
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What characterizes a solo?
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What characterizes a solo?
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The Approach

• Estimate pitch
• Filter out pitch (and partials)
• See how much residual energy is left

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Unfiltered vs. Filtered
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Initial test run

• Setup
• 20 1-minute samples hand labeled
• 28 solo, 72 non-solo
• Results
• 23 correct identification of solo frames
• 90 correct identification of non-solo frames

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The culprit?
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Next step Markov!