David Murray “Ask Me Now”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

57.2 s

Position in Track

02:40-03:37

Album Title

Blue Monk

Label

Enja Records (CD 7039-2)

Recording Date

1991-04-23

Line Up

Aki Takase (p); David Murray (ts)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Db-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

455e1bf8-0671-485d-8fd7-9cb6daafe273

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Eb-7   |Ab   |Dbj7   |F-7 E-7 |Eb-7   |Ab7   |Dbj7   |Dbj7   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Eb7   |Bb-7   |Eb-7   |Ab7   |Db-7   |Gb7   ||
B1: ||G-7 C7 |F#-7 B7 |F-7 Bb7 |E-7 A7 |Eb-7   |Ab7   |B7alt   |Bb7   |Eb7   |D7   |Dbj7   |Eb7   |Eb-7   |Ab7   |Db   |Db   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

281

Number of Bars

31 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

131.2 (MEDIUM)

Event Density

4.91 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

8.99 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.15:1

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

39.1 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

44-83 (39)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

39.5 %

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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