Dexter Gordon “Cheese Cake”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

123.9 s

Position in Track

01:09-03:13

Album Title

Go!

Label

Blue Note (724349879423)

Recording Date

1962-08-27

Line Up

Sonny Clark (p); Butch Warren (b); Billy Higgins (dr); Dexter Gordon (ts)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

C-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

00db281a-fcbd-4eb5-ba96-d87d6025f114

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C-69   |Dm7b5 G+7 |C-69   |C7   |F-69   |C+7   |F-69   |F-69   |Dm7b5   |G+7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Eb-7 Ab7 |Dm7b5 G+7 |C-69   |Dm7b5 G7 ||
A2: ||C-69   |Dm7b5 G+7 |C-69   |C7   |F-69   |C+7   |F-69   |F-69   |Dm7b5   |Dm7b5   |F-7   |Bb7   |Eb-7 Ab7 |Dm7b5 G+7 |C-69   |C-69   ||
B1: ||G-7   |C7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Eb-7   |Ab7   |Dm7b5   |G+7   ||
A3: ||C-69   |Dm7b5 G+7 |C-7   |C7   |F-69   |C+7   |F-69   |F-69   |Dm7b5   |G+7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Eb-7 Ab7 |Dm7b5 G+7 |C-69   |C-69   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

588

Number of Bars

114 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

220.9 (UP)

Event Density

4.75 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.15 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.48:1

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

30.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

48-79 (31)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

43.0 %

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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