Bob Berg “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

203.8 s

Position in Track

05:30-08:54

Album Title

Second Set

Label

SteepleChase (SCS-1113)

Recording Date

1979

Line Up

Bob Berg (ts); Cedar Walton (p); Sam Jones (b); Billy Higgins (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

87d53f9d-c410-4ea9-ae05-ecb6908b6863

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||E-7 A7 |D-7 Bm7b5 |E-7 A7 |D-7 G7 |G-7 C7 |D-   |Bbj7 A-7 |G-7 F-7 ||
A2: ||E-7 A7 |D-7 Bm7b5 |E-7 A7 |D-7 G7 |G-7 C7 |D-   |Bbj7 A-7 |G-7 C7 ||
B1: ||F6 D-7 |Em7b5   |A7   |D-7 C-7F7|Bbj7 A+7 |D-7   |Gsus79 G7913 |G-7 F-7 ||
A3: ||E-7 A7 |D-7 Bm7b5 |E-7 A7 |D-7 G7 |G-7 C7 |D-   |Bbj7 A-7 |Bb-7 Eb7 |A-7 D7 |G-7 Csus7 |F6   |F6   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

906

Number of Bars

108 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

126.7 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

4.45 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

8.41 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.62:1

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

39.1 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

45-79 (34)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.7 %

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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