Chu Berry “Body and Soul”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

91.0 s

Position in Track

00:00-01:30

Album Title

The Chronological Classics: Chu Berry 1937-1941

Label

Classic Records (Classics 784)

Recording Date

1938-11-11

Line Up

Roy Eldridge (tp); Chu Berry (ts); Clyde Hart (p); Danny Barker (g); Artie Shapiro (b); Sidney Catlett (dr)

Style

SWING

Key

C-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

aa303ee8-9a54-47de-a7b9-4a725cf2680b

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||D-7 A79b |D-7 Db7 |Cj7 F7 |E-7 Ebo7 |D-7   |Bm7b5 E7 |A-7D7D-7G7|C6 A7 ||
A2: ||D-7 A79b |D-7 Db7 |Cj7 F7 |E-7 Ebo7 |D-7   |Bm7b5 E7 |A-7D7D-7G7|C Ab7 ||
B1: ||Dbj7 Eb-7 |Db/F Gb-7B7|F-7Bb-7Eb-7Ab7|Dbj7   |Db-7 Gb7 |Bj7 D- |Db-7 Gb7 |B7Bb7A7 ||
A3: ||D-7 A79b |D-7 Db7 |Cj7 F7 |E-7 Ebo7 |D-7   |Bm7b5 E7 |A-7D7D-7G7|C6 NC ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

251

Number of Bars

31 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

81.9 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

2.76 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

8.08 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

2.02:1

Ratio of longer to shorter eighth of beats with binary subdivision.

Metrical Centroid

1+

Mean concentration of events in the bar, rounded and normalized to 4/4.

Syncopicity

35.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

49-74 (25)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

35.9 %

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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