Charlie Parker “How Deep Is the Ocean”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

108.5 s

Position in Track

00:08-01:56

Album Title

Boss Bird Disc 3

Label

Proper Records (P1283)

Recording Date

1947-11-17

Line Up

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

Style

BEBOP

Key

C-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||C-7   |Bo7   |Eb6/Bb   |Am7b5 D7 |G-7   |Am7b5 D79b |G-7 Gb7 |F-7 Bb7 ||
B1: ||Bb-7   |Eb7   |Eb-7   |Ab7   |B7   |B7   |Bb7   |Dm7b5 G79b ||
A2: ||C-7   |Bo7   |Eb6/Bb   |Am7b5 D7 |G-7   |Am7b5 D7 |G-7 Gb7 |F-7 Bb7 ||
C1: ||Bb-7   |Gm7b5 C79b |F-7   |Db7   |Eb/Bb G7/B |C-7 F7 |F-7 Bb7 |Eb69 Dm7b5G7||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

375

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

71.9 (SLOW)

Event Density

3.46 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

11.55 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.04:1

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

44.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

52-78 (26)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

30.7 %

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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