John Coltrane “Soultrane”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

95.3 s

Position in Track

01:41-03:17

Album Title

Trane’s Blues

Label

Giants of Jazz (CD 53058)

Recording Date

1956-11-30

Line Up

John Coltrane (ts); Tadd Dameron (p); John Simmons (b); Philly Joe Jones (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

b7606725-cb17-41a3-a1da-cbf0dc823d1d

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Ebj7   |Gm7b5 C7 |F-7   |Db7   |Ab-7 Db7Do|Ebj7 G7C7|F7 Bb7 |G-7C7F-7Bb7||
A2: ||Ebj7   |Gm7b5 C7 |F-7   |Db7   |Ab-7 Db7Do|Ebj7 G7C7|F7 Bb7 |Ebj7 Am7b5D7||
B1: ||G-7   |Am7b5 D7 |G-7   |C7 B7 |Bbj7 G-7 |Cm7b5 F7 |F-7/Bb Bbo |B7 Bb7E7||
A3: ||Ebj7   |Gm7b5 C7 |F-7   |Db7   |Ab-7 Db7Do|Ebj7 G7C7|F7 Bb7 |Ebj7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

357

Number of Bars

33 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

82.1 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

3.74 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

10.96 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

47.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

51-75 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

32.8 %

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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