Branford Marsalis “Three Little Words”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

192.6 s

Position in Track

01:45-04:57

Album Title

Trio Jeepy

Label

CBS/Columbia (4651342)

Recording Date

03.-04.01.1988

Line Up

Brandford Marsalis (ts); Milt Hinton (B); Jeffrey Watts (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

C-maj

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

FUNCTIONAL

MusicBrainz ID

00d6d225-f761-4d91-a0a3-052e25309a98

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

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Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Cj7   |Cj7   |Cj7   |Eb-7 Ab79 |D-7   |G7   |D-7   |G7   ||
A2: ||Cj7   |Cj7   |Cj7   |Eb-7 Ab79 |D-7   |G7   |D-7   |G7   ||
B1: ||G-7   |G-7   |Csus79   |C7   |Fj7   |Fj7   |Bb7 A7 |Ab7 G7 ||
A3: ||Cj7   |Cj7   |Cj7   |Eb-7 Ab79 |D-7   |G7   |C6   |D-7 G7 ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

1104

Number of Bars

212 bars

Number of Choruses

7

Mean Tempo

264.3 (UP)

Event Density

5.73 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

5.2 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.09:1

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

Metrical Centroid

2

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

Syncopicity

38.9 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

46-76 (30)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

47.2 %

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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