README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-sa-4.0
language:
  - en
tags:
  - mir
  - drum
  - transcription
  - midi
pretty_name: MDBDrums++
size_categories:
  - n<1K

MDB Drums ++

This repository contains updated annotations for the MDB Drums dataset, which itself consists of drum annotations and audio files for 23 tracks from the MedleyDB dataset.

Contents

• Audio: drum-only WAVs in audio/
• Annotations: MIDI files in annotations/midi/
• Logic Pro sessions: .logicx in logic_sessions/
• Metadata: metadata.csv with one row per track

metadata.csv columns:

track_id	style	split	audio_path	midi_path	logic_project_path	sample_rate_hz	num_channels	duration_sec	license	source	notes

All file paths are relative to the repo root. Durations are derived from WAV headers.

License

As with the original dataset, the audio and annotation files are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Tracks

For each of the tracks drum only files are included. Full mixes and multi-track wavs are available from the original repo.

References

[1]	C. Southall, C. Wu, A. Lerch, J. Hockman, MDB Drums - An Annotated Subset of MedleyDB for Automatic Drum Transcription, Proceedings of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2017.