Don Byas “Be-Bop”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

52.7 s

Position in Track

00:30-01:23

Album Title

Jazz Gallery, Dizzy Gillespie, CD 1

Label

BMG/Makin’ Friends records (74321 14165 2)

Recording Date

1945-01-09

Line Up

Dizzy Gillespie (tp); Trummy Young (tb); Don Byas (ts); Clyde Hart (p); Oscar Pettiford (b); Shelly Mane (dr)

Style

BEBOP

Key

F-min

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: ||F- Gm7b5 |F-/Ab Bb-6 |F-/C   |Gm7b5 C7 |F- Gm7b5 |F-/Ab Bb-6 |F-/C   |Gm7b5 F- ||
A2: ||F-7 Gm7b5 |F-/Ab Bb-6 |F-/C   |Gm7b5 C7 |F- Gm7b5 |F-/Ab Bb-6 |F-/C   |Gm7b5 F- ||
B1: ||F-7   |Bb79#   |Ebj7   |Ebj7   |Eb-7   |Ab79#   |Dbj7   |Gm7b5 C79b ||
A3: ||F-7 Gm7b5 |F-/Ab Bb-6 |F-/C   |Gm7b5 C7 |F- Gm7b5 |F-/Ab Bb-6 |F-/C   |C7 F- ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

336

Number of Bars

63 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

288.6 (UP)

Event Density

6.37 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.3 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.34:1

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

Metrical Centroid

3

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

Syncopicity

26.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

49-77 (28)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

35.1 %

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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