Cannonball Adderley “So What”

Discographic Information

Instrument

as

Total Duration

105.3 s

Position in Track

05:07-06:53

Album Title

Kind Of Blue

Label

CBS (CBS 460603 2)

Recording Date

1959-03-02

Line Up

Miles Davis (tp); Cannonball Adderley (as); John Coltrane (ts); Bill Evans (p); Paul Chambers (b); James Cobb (dr)

Style

POSTBOP

Key

D-dor

Signature

4/4

Groove/Feel

SWING

Tonality Class

MODAL

MusicBrainz ID

60f750f4-d222-46b7-ad5c-905334c9a48a

More Info

Wikipedia

Piano Roll

../../_images/PianoRoll_CannonballAdderley_SoWhat.jpg

MIDI

Download MIDI File

Transcription

Chord changes of solo:

A1: ||D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   ||
A2: ||D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   ||
B1: ||Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   |Eb-7   ||
A3: ||D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   |D-7   ||

Statistics

Features

Number of Notes

445

Number of Bars

62 bars

Number of Choruses

2

Mean Tempo

142.2 (MEDIUM UP)

Event Density

4.23 Notes/s

Metrical Event Density

7.14 Notes/bar

Median Swing Ratio

1.85:1

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

Metrical Centroid

1

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

Syncopicity

31.0 %

Share of syncopated notes.

Ambitus

52-80 (28)

Min/max and range of MIDI pitches.

Extrema ratio

35.1 %

Share of notes with direction reversal (i.e, minima and maxima of pitch contour).

Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class Histogram

../../_images/CannonballAdderley_SoWhat_CDPCX_hist.png

Extended Chordal Diatonic Pitch Class is calculated in reference to the underlying chord.

Pitch Class Histogram

../../_images/CannonballAdderley_SoWhat_PC_hist.png

MIDI Pitch Histogram

../../_images/CannonballAdderley_SoWhat_PITCH_hist.png

Semitone Interval Histogram

../../_images/CannonballAdderley_SoWhat_INT_hist.png

Refined Contour Histogram

../../_images/CannonballAdderley_SoWhat_FUZZYINT_hist.png

Also known as “fuzzy intervals” or interval classification. See here for definition of classes

Metrical Circle Map (N=48) Histogram

../../_images/CannonballAdderley_SoWhat_MCM_hist.png

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

../../_images/CannonballAdderley_SoWhat_DURCLASS_hist.png

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

../../_images/CannonballAdderley_SoWhat_MLA_hist.png

Midlevel analysis is a qualitative annotation system of playing ideas, with nine different main categories, as defined in our paper

More Info