“Watermelon Man” Herbie Hancock/1973

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) 121cde3e-0177-40d3-b502-bf80049bdb0d
Time Signature 4/4
Key F
Duration 391.71 s
Tuning 441.41 Hz
Recording Dates 1973-09 - 1973-09
Composer(s) Herbie Hancock

Line-up

Clavinet and Rhodes piano and synthesizer Herbie Hancock
soprano saxophone Bennie Maupin
congas and other instruments and shekere and tambourine Bill Summers
electric bass guitar Paul Jackson
membranophone Harvey Mason

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 30
Mean BPM 57.2872788543
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 12.0
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 0 0.0 0 0.0
min 2 0.534759358289 1.62 0.413571264456
dom 358 95.7219251337 291.64 74.4530392382
hdim7 0 0.0 0 0.0
dim 0 0.0 0 0.0
N 8 2.13903743316 93.68 23.9156518853
unclassified 6 1.60427807487 4.77 1.21773761201

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/watermelon_man-1.png

Top N-grams

(see N-gram in glossary)

../_images/watermelon_man-2.png

Source Annotation

watermelon_man.json

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  "artist": "Herbie Hancock", 
  "title": "Watermelon Man", 
  "metre": "4/4", 
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   "transcriptions": [],
   "key":["F"]
  }, 
  "mbid": "121cde3e-0177-40d3-b502-bf80049bdb0d", 
  "duration": 391.71,
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