Herbie Hancock “Agitation”

Discographic Information

Instrument

p

Total Duration

68.1 s

Position in Track

05:52-07:00

Album Title

E.S.P.

Label

Columbia (CS 9150)

Recording Date

20.22.01.1965

Line Up

Miles Davis(tp); Wane Shorter (ts); Herbie Hancock (p); Ron Carter (b); Tony Williams (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

MODAL

MusicBrainz ID

994b4131-360f-446e-9834-aab5c6876815

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   |NC   ||
B1: ||Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   |Db/Ab   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

343

Number of Bars

83 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

293.8 (UP)

Event Density

5.03 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.11 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.09:1

Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.

Metrical Centroid

3+

Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.

Syncopicity

27.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

50-91 (41)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

43.7 %

Share of notes with direction reversal (i.e, minima and maxima of pitch contour).

Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class Histogram

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Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class is calculated in reference to the underlying chord.

Pitch Class Histogram

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MIDI Pitch Histogram

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Semitone Interval Histogram

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Refined Contour Histogram

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Also known as “fuzzy intervals” or interval classification. See here for definition of classes

Metrical Circle Map (N=48) Histogram

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Metrical circle maps divides the bar duration into equal sized bins (48 in this case) and maps metrical positions to the corresponding bin. (Labels normalized to 4/4 measure).

Duration Class (Abs. and Rel.) Histogram

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Relative duration classes are based on the duration of the beat. Absolute duration classes are based on 120 bpm. See here for a definition of classes.

Midlevel Analysis Main Types Histogram

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Midlevel analysis is a qualitative annotation system of playing ideas, with nine different main categories, as defined in our paper

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