John Coltrane “Giant Steps (2)”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

25.1 s

Position in Track

03:41-04:06

Album Title

Giant Steps

Label

Atlantic Records (SD 1311)

Recording Date

1959

Line Up

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

Style

HARDBOP

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

cc14d998-bf97-4c94-a835-d4ed9717bc7a

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bj7 D7 |Gj7 Bb7 |Ebj7   |A-7 D7 |Gj7 Bb7 |Ebj7 F#7 |Bj7   |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7   |A-7 D7 |Gj7   |C#-7 F#7 |Bj7   |F-7 Bb7 |Ebj7   |C#-7 F#7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

198

Number of Bars

31 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

299.2 (UP)

Event Density

7.87 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.33 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.33:1

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

Metrical Centroid

1+

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

Syncopicity

28.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

51-75 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

34.3 %

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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