Steve Coleman “Pass It On”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

76.8 s

Position in Track

00:44-02:01

Album Title

Rhythm In Mind

Label

Novus (PD 90654)

Recording Date

1991-04-29

Line Up

Steve Coleman (as); Dave Holland (b); Ed Blackwell (dr); Kevin Eubanks (g); Tommy Flanagan (p); Von Freeman (ts); Kenny Wheeler (tp, flgn)

Style

FUSION

Key

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

FUNK

Tonality Class

MODAL

MusicBrainz ID

be9ebacf-9f1f-4fd1-aaf7-9fbc433fb714

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C-7   |Eb   |C-7   |Eb   ||
A2: ||C-7   |Eb   |C-7   |Eb   ||
B1: ||F-   |Db   |F-   |Gb7   ||
A3: ||C-7   |Eb   |C-7   |Eb   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

325

Number of Bars

34 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

104.9 (MEDIUM SLOW)

Event Density

4.23 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

9.69 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.13:1

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

Metrical Centroid

4

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

Syncopicity

35.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

53-82 (29)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

40.0 %

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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