John Coltrane “Blue Train”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

164.6 s

Position in Track

00:35-03:20

Album Title

Blue Train

Label

Blue Note (CDP 7 46095 2)

Recording Date

1957-09-15

Line Up

Lee Morgan (tp); John Coltrane (ts); Kenny Drew (p); Paul Chambers (b); Philly Joe Jones (dr); Curtis Fuller (tb)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

59284d2d-dc82-4ba8-b42f-6c5d906e7e4a

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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   |C7   |F-7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Eb7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

992

Number of Bars

97 bars

Number of Choruses

8

Mean Tempo

141.4 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

6.03 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

10.23 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

34.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

51-77 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

34.6 %

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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