Woody Shaw “If I Were a Bell”

Discographic Information

Instrument

tp

Total Duration

60.9 s

Position in Track

00:34-01:35

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: ||G7   |G-7 C7 |Fj7   |Fj7   |Am7b5   |D7   |G7   |G-7 C7 ||
B1: ||F7   |Bb7   |F7   |A+7   |D-7   |B-7 E7 |Aj7 E7 |Aj7 D7 ||
A2: ||G7   |G-7 C7 |Fj7   |Fj7   |Am7b5   |D7   |G7   |G-7 C7 ||
B2: ||F7   |Bb7 Bo |F E+7 |Eb7 D7 |G-7   |C7   |F   |D+7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

306

Number of Bars

64 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

252.3 (UP)

Event Density

5.02 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.77 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.05:1

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

38.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

57-83 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

41.8 %

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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