Chet Baker “Just Friends”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

50.2 s

Position in Track

00:52-01:42

Album Title

Let’s Get Lost

Label

Giants of Jazz (CD 53100 AAD)

Recording Date

1955-03-07

Line Up

Chet Baker (tp, voc); Russ Freeman (p); Carson Smith (b); Bob Neel (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

G-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

5dece1a5-eb42-4c31-b4dc-51cd01b5e155

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Cj7   |Cj7   |C-7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   ||
B1: ||A-7   |D7   |B-7   |E-7   |A7   |A7   |A-7   |D7 Db7 ||
A2: ||Cj7   |Cj7   |C-7   |F7   |Gj7   |Gj7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   ||
B2: ||A-7   |D7   |B-7   |E-7   |A7   |A-7 D7 |G6   |D-7 G7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

191

Number of Bars

40 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

189.9 (UP)

Event Density

3.81 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.81 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.61:1

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

23.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-79 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

36.6 %

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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