Wayne Shorter “Speak No Evil”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

167.5 s

Position in Track

01:25-04:13

Album Title

Speak No Evil

Label

Blue Note (BST 84194)

Recording Date

1964-12-24

Line Up

Elvin Jones (dr); Herbie Hancock (p); Ron Carter (b); Freddie Hubbard (tp)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

C-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

COLOR

MusicBrainz ID

52f5dd01-050e-4db2-b85f-a4775a321292

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C-7   |Dbj7   |C-7   |Dbj7   |C-7   |Dbj7   |C-7   |Dbj7   |E-7911 A+7 |D-7911 G+7 |Am7b5   |Bb-7   |Am7b5   |Bb-7   ||
A2: ||C-7   |Dbj7   |C-7   |Dbj7   |C-7   |Dbj7   |C-7   |Dbj7   |E-7911 A+7 |D-7911 G+7 |Am7b5   |Bb-7   |Am7b5   |Bb-7   ||
B1: ||C-7  Ab7|Ab7   |G-7  Gbm7b5|Gbm7b5   |F-7  Bbm7b5|Bbm7b5   |Eb7  Db7|Db7   ||
A3: ||C-7   |Dbj7   |C-7   |Dbj7   |C-7   |Dbj7   |C-7   |Dbj7   |E-7911 A+7 |D-7911 G+7 |Am7b5   |Bb-7   |Am7b5   |Bb-7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

452

Number of Bars

100 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

142.7 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

2.7 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.54 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.53:1

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

35.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

45-78 (33)

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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