John Coltrane “Countdown”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

89.0 s

Position in Track

00:22-01:51

Album Title

The Heavyweight Champion - The Complete Atlantic Recordings CD 2

Label

Atlantic Records (8122-71984-2)

Recording Date

1959-05-04

Line Up

John Coltrane (ts); Tommy Flanagan (p); Paul Chambers (b); Art Taylor (dr)

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

61f4bf5a-a0b4-4a5e-af01-00d2dfad49be

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||E-7 F7 |Bbj7 Db7 |Gbj7 A7 |Dj7   |D-7 Eb7 |Abj7 B7 |Ej7 G7 |Cj7   |C-7 Db7 |Gbj7 A7 |Dj7 F7 |Bbj7   |E7   |F7   |Bbj7   |Eb7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

867

Number of Bars

125 bars

Number of Choruses

8

Mean Tempo

337.6 (UP)

Event Density

9.74 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.92 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

0.99:1

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

Metrical Centroid

2+

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

Syncopicity

22.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-75 (29)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

37.9 %

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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