This repository contains a collection of musicXML jazz licks (melodic segments) that were retrieved from the BopLand website.

The licks are classified in 4 category :

• bass-clef-licks
• guitar-licks
• treble-clef-licks
• walking-bass-lines

Repository organization :

• lick/image contains the .png partition version of the licks
• lick/jsonTag contains for each category a json files providing tagging information for every licks
• lick/musicXML contains the actual .xml files providing the musical data (only treble-clef-licks and walking-bass-line are presents because bass-clef-licks, guitar-licks and treble-clef-licks are actually redundant, they contains the same licks but notated with the corresponding clef/notations)

When I tried to contact BopLand devs to ask if they could share their lick library in a more developer friendly format, I got no answer. So I decided to retrieve them myself and share them in case someone else had the same idea.

On the website, the licks are stored as .png partitions. To retrieve the musical data from these images the Optical Music Recognition software Audiveris was used.

Python was used to automate all this process, I made a bunch of scripts that took care of the web scraping, the Audiveris mxl export and the mxl to xml conversion.

This collection is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.