Lionel Hampton “Avalon”

Discographic Information

Instrument

vib

Total Duration

32.0 s

Position in Track

01:34-02:06

Album Title

From Swing to Bebop

Label

History/This is Music (20.1975-HI)

Recording Date

1937-02-03

Line Up

Benny Goodman (cl); Teddy Wilson (p); Gene Krupa (dr); Lionel Hampton (vib)

Style

SWING

Key

Eb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

7e8d5670-50a7-42f9-a895-63324f4fc8be

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Eb6   |Eb6   |Eb6   |Eb6   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Eb6   |Eb6   |Eb6   |Eb6   ||
B1: ||C7   |C7   |C7   |C7   |F-7   |F-7   |Ab-7   |Db7   |Eb6   |Eb6   |C7   |C7   |F-7   |B7   |Eb6   |Eb6   ||
I1: ||Ab7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

151

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

241.0 (UP)

Event Density

4.72 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.71 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.2:1

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

23.2 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

58-87 (29)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

39.1 %

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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