Steve Coleman “Cross-Fade (2)”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

14.8 s

Position in Track

00:58-01:13

Album Title

Black Science

Label

Novus (PD 83119)

Recording Date

1990-12-01

Line Up

Steve Coleman (as); Marvin Smith (dr, perc); Reggie Washingon (b); David Gilmore (g); James Weidman (p)

Style

FUSION

Key

Signature

9/4

Groove/Feel

FUNK

Tonality Class

FREE

MusicBrainz ID

0f42f96d-9f32-40e1-bf2e-6702fbf64d50

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||NC   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

78

Number of Bars

4 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

145.9 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

5.27 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

19.49 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

0.87:1

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

38.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-79 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.5 %

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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