John Coltrane “So What”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

107.5 s

Position in Track

03:20-05:07

Album Title

Kind Of Blue

Label

CBS (CBS 460603 2)

Recording Date

1959-03-02

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Cannonball Adderley (as); John Coltrane (ts); Bill Evans (p); Paul Chambers (b); James Cobb (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

D-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

MODAL

MusicBrainz ID

60f750f4-d222-46b7-ad5c-905334c9a48a

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   ||
A2: ||D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   ||
B1: ||Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   ||
A3: ||D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

479

Number of Bars

63 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

141.6 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.46 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.56 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.35:1

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

39.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

50-79 (29)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

35.5 %

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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