Charlie Parker “Don’t Blame Me”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

122.0 s

Position in Track

00:09-02:11

Album Title

Boss Bird Disc 2

Label

Proper Records (P1282)

Recording Date

1947-11-04

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Duke Jordan (p); Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (dr); Charlie Parker (as)

Style

BEBOP

Key

C-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C6 F-7Bb7|E-7 A7 |D-7 G7 |Cj7 A-7 |D-7 G7 |Em7b5 A7 |D-7 G7 |C6A7D-7G7||
A2: ||C6 F-7Bb7|E-7 A7 |D-7 G7 |Cj7 A-7 |D-7 G7 |Em7b5 A7 |D-7 G7 |C6 G-7C7||
B1: ||Fj7   |E7   |A-7   |A-7   |D7   |D7   |D-7 Ab7 |G7   ||
A3: ||C6 F-7Bb7|A7   |D-7 G7 |Cj7 A-7 |D-7 G7 |Em7b5 A7 |D-7 G7 |C6A7D-7G7||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

516

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

63.7 (SLOW)

Event Density

4.23 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

15.95 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.67:1

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

45.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

52-79 (27)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

37.0 %

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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