Benny Carter “Just Friends”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

112.4 s

Position in Track

01:56-03:49

Album Title

Benny Carter meets Oscar Peterson

Label

Pablo Records (CD 2310-926)

Recording Date

1986-11-14

Line Up

Benny Carter (as); Oscar Peterson (p); Joe Pass (g); Dave Young (b); Martin Drew (dr)

Style

SWING

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

0d7ab9bd-a3d0-4d78-8f8a-5f78dcaecfa9

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bbj7   |Bbj7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Fj7   |Fj7   |Ab-7   |Db7   |G-7   |C7   |A-7   |D-7   |G7   |G7   |G-7   |C7 B7 ||
B1: ||Bbj7   |Bbj7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Fj7   |Fj7   |Ab-7   |Db7   |G-7   |C7   |Em7b5 A7 |D-7   |G7   |G-7 C7 |F6   |C-7 F7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

568

Number of Bars

96 bars

Number of Choruses

3

Mean Tempo

204.9 (UP)

Event Density

5.05 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.92 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.55:1

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

36.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

50-82 (32)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

43.8 %

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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