Pat Metheny “Nothing Personal”

Discographic Information

Instrument

g

Total Duration

73.5 s

Position in Track

01:05-02:18

Album Title

Michael Brecker

Label

Impulse! Records (MCAD-5980)

Recording Date

1987

Line Up

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

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-   |G-   |G-   |G-   |G-   |G-   |G-   |G-   |C-7   |C-7   |C-7   |C-7   |G-   |G-   |G-   |G-   |Eb7   |Eb7   |D7   |D7   |G-   |G-   |G-   |G-   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

416

Number of Bars

74 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

242.1 (UP)

Event Density

5.66 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.6 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.19:1

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

28.1 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

45-80 (35)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

36.1 %

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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