John Coltrane “My Favorite Things”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ss

Total Duration

141.9 s

Position in Track

07:19-09:41

Album Title

The Heavyweight Champion - The Complete Atlantic Recordings CD 4

Label

Atlantic Records (8122-71984-2/4)

Recording Date

1960-10-21

Line Up

John Coltrane (ss); McCoy Tyner (p); Steve Davis (b); Elvin Jones (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

E-min

Signature

3/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

MODAL

MusicBrainz ID

4715b9e2-849a-4849-b32c-8e1f07311572

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  |E-7  ||
I1: ||E-7  |E-7 NC||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

743

Number of Bars

141 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

179.3 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

5.24 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.26 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.7:1

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

Metrical Centroid

1+

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

Syncopicity

38.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

59-87 (28)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

26.1 %

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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