Tayuya

A tool to generate guitar tabs from MIDI files

Live demo: midi.vipul.xyz

Installation

pip install tayuya

Usage

In [1]: from tayuya import MIDIParser

In [2]: mid = MIDIParser('sample.mid', track=0)

In [3]: mid.render_tabs()
Out[3]:

E-------------14--------------------------16--14----------14--------------
A-------------------------------------------------17--17------16--17--16--
D-16------16------16--16--16--16------16----------------------------------
G-----18--------------------------18--------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Don't forget to set the track argument with the appropriate track number desired.

Get track numbers of all the tracks in the MIDI file

In [1]: from tayuya import MIDIParser

In [2]: mid = MIDIParser('sample.mid', track=0)

In [3]: mid.get_tracks()
Out[3]:
{0: 'Lead Guitar',
 1: 'Rhthym Guitar Dist',
 2: 'Acoustic Guitar',
 3: 'Rhthym Guitar Clean & Dist',
 4: 'Lead Guitar Fill',
 5: 'Guitar Harmonics',

Advanced

MIDI

Get all notes played in the MIDI track

In [1]: mid = MIDIParser('sample.mid', track=0)

In [2]: mid.notes_played()
Out[2]:
[{'note': 'C#5', 'time': 18},
 {'note': 'C#5', 'time': 30},
 {'note': 'B4', 'time': 26},
 {'note': 'C5', 'time': 0},
 {'note': 'C5', 'time': 28},
 {'note': 'C#5', 'time': 28},
 {'note': 'C#5', 'time': 30}]

Get key of the track

In [1]: mid = MIDIParser('sample.mid', track=0)

In [2]: mid.get_key()

Tabs

Get all notes to play

You can use this example to generate all the notes to play with their string and fret positions.

In [1]: mid = MIDIParser('sample.mid', track=0)

In [2]: tabs = Tabs(notes=mid.notes_played(), key=mid.get_key())

In [3]: tabs.generate_notes(tabs.find_start())
Out[3]:
[('C#3', 5, 4),
 ('G#3', 4, 6),
 ('C#4', 3, 6),
 ('F4', 2, 6),
 ('B2', 6, 7),
 ('D#3', 5, 6),
 ('F#3', 4, 4),
 ('B3', 3, 4),
 ('D#4', 3, 8),
 ('F#2', 6, 2)]

Each tuple here is (note, string, fret)

How it works?

Here's a brief of how it works:

• Fetch a track from the MIDI file
• Find all the notes played and convert from MIDI code values to music notes
• Find a scale for the set of notes extracted
• Find the best position to play the extracted notes using the scale detected

Limitations

• Works only for guitar solos. Implementation for determination and rendering of chords is not done yet.
• Works only for standard tuning (E A D G B E)

TODO

• Render tabs using Lilypond or some GUI alternative
• Implement logic to determine and render chords
• Better the scale detection implementation
• Transposing
• Add way to handle non standard tuning
• More stringed instruments

LICENSE

MIT

Credits

Tayuya is made possible by following open source softwares:

• Mido
• Music21

The name

Tayuya (たゆや)