Charlie Parker “Yardbird Suite”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

37.1 s

Position in Track

00:39-01:17

Album Title

Boss Bird Disc 1

Label

Proper Records (P1281)

Recording Date

1946-03-28

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

C-maj

Signature

4/4

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: ||C6   |F-7 Bb7 |C7 Bb7 |A7   |D7   |G7   |E-7 A7 |D-7 G7 ||
A2: ||C6   |F-7 Bb7 |C7 Bb7 |A7   |D7   |G7   |C6   |F#m7b5 B79b ||
B1: ||E-7   |F#m7b5 B79b |E-7   |A7   |D-7   |Em7b5 A7 |D7   |D-7 G7 ||
A3: ||C6   |F-7 Bb7 |C7 Bb7 |A7   |D7   |G7   |C6   |D-7 G7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

192

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

209.8 (UP)

Event Density

5.17 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.92 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.73:1

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

26.6 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

53-74 (21)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

39.6 %

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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