John Coltrane “Nature Boy”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

255.8 s

Position in Track

01:49-06:04

Album Title

The John Coltrane Quartet Plays

Label

Impulse! Records (AS-85)

Recording Date

18.02.1963

Line Up

John Coltrane (ts); Art Davis (b); Elvin Jones (dr); McCoy Tyner (p)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

E-min

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

MODAL

MusicBrainz ID

0fa25deb-8551-475f-a379-fbe67fb7efb9

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||E-7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

1292

Number of Bars

794 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

186.1 (UP)

Event Density

5.05 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

1.63 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.08:1

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

34.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

45-83 (38)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

42.6 %

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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