Bix Beiderbecke “Riverboat Shuffle”

Discographic Information

Instrument

cor

Total Duration

36.7 s

Position in Track

00:52-01:29

Album Title

The Cradle Of Jazz - Jazz Lips CD 2

Label

History (20.3013-HI)

Recording Date

1927-05-09

Line Up

Bix Beiderbecke (cor); Bill Rank (tb); Don Murray (cl, bs); Ernest Ingle (as); Frankie Trumbauer (ts-c); Itzie Riskin (p); Eddie Lang (g); Chauncey Morehouse (dr)

Style

TRADITIONAL

Key

Ab-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

TWOBEAT

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

c3ec0b7b-d0d0-478c-a5fb-2a352bc3515a

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Ab   |Ab  Ao|Eb7   |Eb7   |Ab   |Ab  Ao|Eb7   |Eb7   |Ab   |Ab7   |Db   |Db7 C7B7|Bb7   |Bb7   |Eb7NC  |NC   ||
B1: ||Ab   |Ab  Ao|Eb7   |Eb7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Db   |Db   |Db-   |Db-   |Ab   |F7   |Bb7   |Eb7   |Ab   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

161

Number of Bars

32 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

210.9 (UP)

Event Density

4.39 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

4.99 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.62:1

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

24.8 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

56-80 (24)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

48.4 %

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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