Wayne Shorter “Adam’s Apple”

Discographic Information

Instrument

ts

Total Duration

131.9 s

Position in Track

01:18-03:30

Album Title

Adam’s Apple

Label

Blue Note (CDP 7 46403 2)

Recording Date

1966-02-24

Line Up

Herbie Hancock (p); Reginald Workman (b); Joe Chambers (dr); Wayne Shorter (ts)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

Ab-mix

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

LATIN

Tonality Class

COLOR

MusicBrainz ID

235145f7-6611-4fc4-9b1f-f5a071b4f8bb

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Piano Roll

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MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Gb7   |Gb7   |Gb7   |Gb7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab7   |Ab-7   |Db7913   |Bb-7   |Eb7   |Ab-   |Ab-   |Bb-7/Eb   |Bb-7/Eb   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

351

Number of Bars

96 bars

Number of Choruses

4

Mean Tempo

174.4 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

2.66 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

3.66 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.06:1

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

32.5 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

50-77 (27)

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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