John Abercrombie “Ralph’s Piano Waltz”

Discographic Information

Instrument

g

Total Duration

78.8 s

Position in Track

01:02-02:21

Album Title

Quest/Standards, The Jazz Workshop Series, David Liebman/Richard Beirach/Ron McClure/Billy Hart

Label

Advance Music (B008HT8HME)

Recording Date

1988

Line Up

John Abercrombie (g); Richard Beirach (p); Ron McCure (b); Billy Hart (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Signature

3/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

MODAL

MusicBrainz ID

9c5a05bb-213e-4b7c-bb7b-80a07aa43c59

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||G  |G  |Bb  |Bb  |Ebj7911#  |Ebj7911#  |Ebj7911#  |Ebj7911#  |Dbj7  |Dbj7  |Dbj7  |Dbj7  |Dbj7  |Dbj7  |Dbj7  |Dbj7  |A-79  |A-79  |F+j7  |F+j7  ||
B1: ||A-  |F  |A-  |F  |A-  |F  |A-  |F  ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

298

Number of Bars

86 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

196.5 (UP)

Event Density

3.78 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

3.47 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.16:1

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

Metrical Centroid

4+

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

Syncopicity

26.8 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

48-76 (28)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

35.2 %

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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