Benny Goodman “Handful of Keys”

Discographic Information

Instrument

cl

Total Duration

13.7 s

Position in Track

01:48-02:01

Album Title

Label

()

Recording Date

1937

Line Up

Teddy Wilson (p); Lionel Hampton (vib); Gene Krupa (dr); Harry Goodman (b); Benny Goodman (cl)

Style

SWING

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

c6db9985-bc89-42ca-8f23-3504b9425b7c

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb F-7 |Eb6 Gbo |F- F-7 |F-6 Gbo |F- F-7 |F-6 Bb7 |Eb C-7 |F-7 Bb7 ||
A2: ||Eb F-7 |Eb6 Gbo |F- F-7 |F-6 Gbo |F- F-7 |F-6 Bb7 |Eb Bbm7b5 |Eb D7 ||
I1:

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

81

Number of Bars

17 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

303.1 (UP)

Event Density

5.93 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.7 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

0.89:1

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

Metrical Centroid

4

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

Syncopicity

18.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

62-87 (25)

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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