Art Pepper “Blues for Blanche”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

159.2 s

Position in Track

00:40-03:19

Album Title

Art Pepper, The Compelete Galaxy Recordings, CD 3

Label

Galaxy Records (LC1428)

Recording Date

25 - 26. 05.1979

Line Up

Art Pepper (as, cl); George Cables (p); Charlie Haden (b); Billy Higgins (dr)

Style

COOL

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

6f93b7a9-8d5c-46e9-aada-2533f3db871c

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb7   |Ab7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Bb7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

666

Number of Bars

132 bars

Number of Choruses

11

Mean Tempo

198.9 (UP)

Event Density

4.18 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.05 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.46:1

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

30.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

49-87 (38)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

46.2 %

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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