Pepper Adams “How High the Moon”

Discographic Information

Instrument

bs

Total Duration

33.0 s

Position in Track

01:02-01:35

Album Title

Chet

Label

Riverside Records (OJCD-087-2)

Recording Date

1958-12-30

Line Up

Chet Baker (tp); Herbie Mann (fl); Pepper Adams (bs); Bill Evans (p); Paul Chambers (b); Connie Kay (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

G-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

dcb9f1ec-4e31-41d3-be43-628aa452da99

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Gj7   |Gj7   |G-7   |C7   |Fj7   |Fj7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Ebj7   |Am7b5 D7 |G-7   |G-7   |G79   |Cj7   |B-7 Bb7 |A-7 D7 ||
B1: ||Gj7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

196

Number of Bars

16 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

115.7 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

5.95 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

12.38 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.11:1

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

34.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

44-67 (23)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

34.2 %

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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