Michael Brecker “Never Alone”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

90.7 s

Position in Track

01:59-03:30

Album Title

Now You See It…(Now You Don’t)

Label

GPR Records (AAGRD9622)

Recording Date

1990

Line Up

Michael Brecker (ts); Jon Herington (g); Joey Calderazzo (p); Jim Beard (key, synth); Victor Bailey (b); Jay Anderson (b); Adam Nussbaum (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Ab

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

BALLAD

Tonality Class

COLOR

MusicBrainz ID

72d5b67c-3862-4691-a8d7-a95dc8a0993a

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Ab   |Bb/Ab C/Ab |Gb/Bb Eb/G |C/Ab F-/Ab |Absus  Aj7911#/Ab|Ab79b13 Db-69/AbDb-69/Db|Gbsus7913 Eb-7911E-7911|Dbsus7913  G79#13|C-7911 G7913 |C-7911 G7913 |Eb-j7 Bb79# |Eb-j7 D+79# |G-7911 D+79# |G-7911 G+79# |C-7911 G7913 |C-7911 G7913 |Eb-j7 Bb79# |Eb-j7 D+79#  ||
I1: ||Ab    ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

323

Number of Bars

18 bars

Number of Choruses

1

Mean Tempo

48.8 (SLOW)

Event Density

3.56 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

17.74 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.23:1

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

39.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

44-79 (35)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

36.2 %

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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