Woody Shaw “Stepping Stone”

Discographic Information

Instrument

cor

Total Duration

29.4 s

Position in Track

00:51-01:20

Album Title

Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard

Label

Columbia (JC 35560)

Recording Date

05.&06.08.1978

Line Up

Woody Shaw (cor, flgn); Carter Jefferson (ts, ss); Onaje Allan Gumbs (p); Clint Houston (b); Victor Lewis (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

9ad2f5ed-0831-4b5f-b32d-cba6f4443b7a

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   |F7   ||
B1: ||Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |F-7   |F-7   |F-7   |F-7   |F-7   |F-7   |F-7   |F-7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

160

Number of Bars

33 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

266.2 (UP)

Event Density

5.45 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.92 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.37:1

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

21.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-82 (27)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

38.8 %

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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