Benny Goodman “Nobody’s Sweetheart”

Discographic Information

Instrument

cl

Total Duration

30.4 s

Position in Track

00:59-01:30

Album Title

From Swing to Bebop

Label

History/This is Music (20.1975-HI)

Recording Date

1936-04-27

Line Up

Benny Goodman (cl); Teddy Wilson (p); Gene Krupa (dr)

Style

SWING

Key

Ab-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

8f75a1a2-7f2b-4ef7-bade-9ed861fa3bef

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Ab   |Ab   |F7   |F7   |F-7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb   |Eb   |C7   |C7   |Ab   |Ab   |Eb7   |Eb7   ||
B1: ||Ab   |Ab   |F7   |F7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |F-   |F-   |Eo   |Eo   |Ab   |Ab   |Bb-   |Eb7   |Ab   |Ab C7 |F7   |F7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Ab   |Ab   |Ab   |Ab   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

198

Number of Bars

39 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

311.3 (UP)

Event Density

6.51 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.03 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.06:1

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

Metrical Centroid

3+

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

Syncopicity

34.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

62-87 (25)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

57.6 %

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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