Charlie Parker “Embraceable You”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

107.9 s

Position in Track

00:08-01:56

Album Title

Boss Bird Disc 2

Label

Proper Records (P1282)

Recording Date

1947-10-28

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Charlie Parker (as); Duke Jordan (p); Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

F-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

More Info

Wikipedia

Piano Roll

../../_images/PianoRoll_CharlieParker_EmbraceableYou.jpg

MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||F6   |Abo   |G-7   |C7   |G-7 G-/F |Gm7b5 C7 |F6   |E7 A7 |D-7   |Bm7b5 E7 |A-7   |Fm7b5 F-7 |E-7 A7 |D-7 G7 |C7   |G-7 C7 ||
B1: ||F6   |Abo   |G-7   |C7   |G-7 G-7/F |Gm7b5 C7 |F6 D-7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7   |Em7b5 A79b |D-7   |Bm7b5 Bb-7 |A-7 D7 |G-79b C79b |A-7 D7 |G-7 C7 ||
I1: ||F6   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

450

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

72.3 (SLOW)

Event Density

4.17 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

13.85 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.23:1

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

Metrical Centroid

1

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

Syncopicity

36.7 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

51-80 (29)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

43.1 %

Share of notes with direction reversal (i.e, minima and maxima of pitch contour).

Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class Histogram

../../_images/CharlieParker_EmbraceableYou_CDPCX_hist.png

Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class is calculated in reference to the underlying chord.

Pitch Class Histogram

../../_images/CharlieParker_EmbraceableYou_PC_hist.png

MIDI Pitch Histogram

../../_images/CharlieParker_EmbraceableYou_PITCH_hist.png

Semitone Interval Histogram

../../_images/CharlieParker_EmbraceableYou_INT_hist.png

Refined Contour Histogram

../../_images/CharlieParker_EmbraceableYou_FUZZYINT_hist.png

Also known as “fuzzy intervals” or interval classification. See here for definition of classes

Metrical Circle Map (N=48) Histogram

../../_images/CharlieParker_EmbraceableYou_MCM_hist.png

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

../../_images/CharlieParker_EmbraceableYou_DURCLASS_hist.png

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

../../_images/CharlieParker_EmbraceableYou_MLA_hist.png

Midlevel analysis is a qualitative annotation system of playing ideas, with nine different main categories, as defined in our paper

More Info