Michael Brecker “Nothing Personal”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

118.6 s

Position in Track

02:19-04:17

Album Title

Michael Brecker

Label

Impulse! Records (MCAD-5980)

Recording Date

1987

Line Up

Michael Brecker (ts); Pat Metheny (g); Kenny Kirkland (key); Charlie Haden (b); Jack DeJohnette (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

G-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

f112a4bc-e042-4529-aa32-06ecd26dcb10

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||G-7   |G-7   |G-7   |G-7   |G-7   |G-7   |G-7   |G-7   |C-7   |C-7   |C-7   |C-7   |G-7   |G-7   |G-7   |G-7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |D7   |D7   |G-7   |G-7   |G-7   |G-7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

672

Number of Bars

120 bars

Number of Choruses

5

Mean Tempo

243.8 (UP)

Event Density

5.67 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.58 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.39:1

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

21.1 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

44-80 (36)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

32.3 %

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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