Bob Berg “Nature of the Beast”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

196.9 s

Position in Track

01:28-04:45

Album Title

Enter The Spirit

Label

GRP Records / Stretch Records (STD-1105)

Recording Date

1993

Line Up

Bob Berg (ts); David Kikoski (p); Jim Beard (rhodes); James Genus (b); Dennis Chambers (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

C-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

LATIN

Tonality Class

MODAL

MusicBrainz ID

9eaeabcd-b200-4b56-9555-99a4eeaf40da

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Fsus   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

964

Number of Bars

108 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

131.8 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

4.9 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

8.9 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

0.79:1

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

39.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

44-81 (37)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

45.3 %

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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