Steve Turre “If I Were a Bell”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tb

Total Duration

59.4 s

Position in Track

02:37-03:36

Album Title

Imagination

Label

32 Jazz (32090)

Recording Date

1987-06-24

Line Up

Kirk Lightsey (p); Steve Turre (tb); Ray Drummond (b); Carl Allen (dr); Woody Shaw (tp)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

3b65d801-9cfa-4614-9b64-0f2f8009d38d

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||G79   |Csus7913 C7913 |Fj7   |Fj7   |A-7   |D7   |G7   |G-7 C7913 ||
B1: ||F6 F7/A |Bb6 C7913 |F6   |E-7 A7 |D-7 D-7/C |Bb-7 E7 |Aj7 Bb7 |Aj7 D7 ||
A2: ||G79   |Csus7913 C7913 |Fj7   |Fj7   |A-7   |D7   |G7   |G-7 C7 ||
C1: ||F6 F7/A |Bb Bo |F6/C Bb7913 |A-7 D7 |G-7   |C7913   |F6   |F6   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

307

Number of Bars

64 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

257.1 (UP)

Event Density

5.17 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.82 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.33:1

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

Metrical Centroid

3

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

Syncopicity

26.4 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

48-74 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

40.4 %

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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