  While guitar tablature has become a popular topic in MIR research, there
exists no such a guitar tablature dataset that focuses on the soundtracks of
anime and video games, which have a surprisingly broad and growing audience
among the youths. In this paper, we present AnimeTAB, a fingerstyle guitar
tablature dataset in MusicXML format, which provides more high-quality guitar
tablature for both researchers and guitar players. AnimeTAB contains 412 full
tracks and 547 clips, the latter are annotated with musical structures (intro,
verse, chorus, and bridge). An accompanying analysis toolkit, TABprocessor, is
included to further facilitate its use. This includes functions for melody and
bassline extraction, key detection, and chord labeling, which are implemented
using rule-based algorithms. We evaluated each of these functions against a
manually annotated ground truth. Finally, as an example, we performed a music
and technique analysis of AnimeTAB using TABprocessor. Our data and code have
been made publicly available for composers, performers, and music information
retrieval (MIR) researchers alike.
