Herbie Hancock “Gingerbread Boy”

Discographic Information

Instrument

p

Total Duration

117.0 s

Position in Track

04:24-06:21

Album Title

Miles Smiles

Label

Columbia (CS 65682)

Recording Date

24-25.10.1966

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Wayne Shorter (ts); Herbie Hancock (p); Ron Carter (b); Tony Williams (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

73b85eb1-3187-4d99-af65-2a5e6be89540

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

708

Number of Bars

139 bars

Number of Choruses

9

Mean Tempo

285.8 (UP)

Event Density

6.05 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.08 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.15:1

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

21.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

48-87 (39)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.3 %

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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