Bix Beiderbecke “Royal Garden Blues”

Discographic Information

Instrument

cor

Total Duration

15.4 s

Position in Track

02:21-02:37

Album Title

The Cradle Of Jazz - Jazz Lips CD 2

Label

History (20.3013-HI)

Recording Date

1927-10-05

Line Up

Bix Beiderbecke (cor); Bill Rank (tb); Don Murray (cl); Adrian Rollini (b); Frank Signorelli (p); Chauncey Morehouse (dr)

Style

TRADITIONAL

Key

Bb-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

TWOBEAT

Tonality Class

BLUES

MusicBrainz ID

2b5dbdbd-fd87-43c2-801c-728fe0f15d3d

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Bb   |Eb   |Eb   |Bb   |G7   |C-7   |F7   |Bb   |Bb   |NC   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

72

Number of Bars

11 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

174.1 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.69 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

6.45 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.28:1

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

Metrical Centroid

4

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

Syncopicity

15.3 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

58-78 (20)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

55.6 %

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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