Charlie Parker “Steeplechase”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

44.5 s

Position in Track

00:45-01:30

Album Title

Boss Bird Disc 3

Label

Proper Records (P1283)

Recording Date

1948-09-24

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Charlie Parker (as); John Lewis (p); Curley Russell (b); Max Roach (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 Bb7 |Eb6 Eb-7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7F7Bbj7 ||
A2: ||Bb G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 Bb7 |Eb6 Eb-7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7F7Bbj7 ||
B1: ||D7   |D7   |G7   |G7   |C7   |C7   |F7   |F7   ||
A3: ||Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7 F7 |Bbj7 Bb7 |Eb6 Eb-7 |Bbj7 G7 |C-7F7Bbj7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

228

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

175.2 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

5.12 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.02 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

2.04:1

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

33.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

55-79 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

40.4 %

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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