Herbie Hancock “Orbits”

Discographic Information

Instrument

p

Total Duration

79.7 s

Position in Track

02:36-03:56

Album Title

Miles Smiles

Label

Columbia (CS 65682)

Recording Date

24-25.10.1966

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Wayne Shorter (ts); Herbie Hancock (p); Ron Carter (b); Tony Williams (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

COLOR

MusicBrainz ID

aa05a78b-9e75-42d7-87b3-c074685e52d0

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||NC   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

463

Number of Bars

88 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

264.9 (UP)

Event Density

5.81 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.27 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.31:1

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

25.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

47-80 (33)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

40.0 %

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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