TapTamDrum

TapTamDrum

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Behzad Haki
Access

## Access

The dataset is freely available at taptamdrum.github.io.

Paper: zenodo.org/records/10265237

License

## License

See the TapTamDrum website for license information.

Publication
  1. TapTamDrum: A Dataset for Dualized Drum Patterns

    TapTamDrum: A Dataset for Dualized Drum Patterns

    Behzad Haki, Błażej Kotowski, Cheuk Lee, and 1 more
    Proceedings of the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference · 2023
    Abstract

    Drummers spend extensive time practicing rudiments to develop technique, speed, coordination, and phrasing. These rudiments are often practiced on "silent" practice pads using only the hands. Additionally, many percussive instruments across cultures are played exclusively with the hands. Building on these concepts and inspired by Einstein’s probably apocryphal quote, "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler," we hypothesize that a dual-voice reduction could serve as a natural and meaningful compressed representation of multi-voiced drum patterns. This representation would retain more information than its corresponding monotonic representation while maintaining relative simplicity for tasks such as rhythm analysis and generation. To validate this potential representation, we investigate whether experienced drummers can consistently represent and reproduce the rhythmic essence of a given drum pattern using only their two hands. We present TapTamDrum: a novel dataset of repeated dualizations from four experienced drummers, along with preliminary analysis and tools for further exploration of the data.

    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{Haki2023TapTamDrum,
      title = {{TapTamDrum: A Dataset for Dualized Drum Patterns}},
      author = {Haki, Behzad and Kotowski, Błażej and Lee, Cheuk and Jorda, Sergi},
      booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference}},
      year = {2023},
      month = nov,
      publisher = {ISMIR},
    }
Contact

## Contact

Behzad Haki — behzad.haki@upf.edu
Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Overview

## Overview

TapTamDrum is a dataset of reduced drum patterns, presented at ISMIR 2023. It is designed for research on dualized drum patterns — patterns where a full drum loop is reduced to a simpler rhythmic skeleton.

Full dataset and documentation: taptamdrum.github.io