Charlie Parker “Billie’s Bounce”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

73.1 s

Position in Track

00:40-01:53

Album Title

Boss Bird Disc 1

Label

Proper Records (P1281)

Recording Date

1945-11-26

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Charlie Parker (as); Lucky Thompson (ts); Dodo Marmarosa (p); Arvin Garrison (g); Vic Mcmillan (b); Roy Porter (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||F7   |Bb7   |F7   |F7   |Bb7   |Bb7   |F7   |A-7 D7 |G-   |C7   |F7   |C7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

303

Number of Bars

48 bars

Number of Choruses

4

Mean Tempo

158.5 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.14 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.27 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.87:1

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

36.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

52-80 (28)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

39.9 %

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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