Miles Davis “Vierd Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

100.2 s

Position in Track

00:25-02:05

Album Title

Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings (1951 - 1956), CD 5

Label

Prestige (8PCD-012-2)

Recording Date

1956-03-16

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Sonny Rollins (ts); Tommy Flanagan (p); Paul Chambers (b); Art Taylor (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

28b5ee97-cae7-4144-8233-af5fafa58e13

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |G79b   |C-   |F7   |Bb7 G79b |C-7 F7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

157

Number of Bars

48 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

114.7 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

1.57 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

3.28 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.41:1

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

Metrical Centroid

2+

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

Syncopicity

43.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

61-75 (14)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.2 %

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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