“Weather Bird” Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines/1928

Recording Information

Recording MusicBrainz ID (MBID) d172970c-5751-44bf-8a45-65bc3223410e
Time Signature 4/4
Key Ab
Duration 165.67 s
Tuning 440.89 Hz
Recording Dates 1928-12-05 - 1928-12-05
Composer(s) Louis Armstrong

Line-up

piano Earl Hines
trumpet Louis Armstrong

Symbolic Staistics From Annotation

Number of Chord Segments 142
Mean BPM 202.088489165
Mean Harmonic Rhythm 3.4507042253521125
Chord Usage Summary
Chord Beats Number Beats % Duration (seconds) Duration %
maj 241 43.1899641577 69.91 42.1983461097
min 28 5.01792114695 8.12 4.9013098328
dom 185 33.1541218638 53.23 32.1301382266
hdim7 0 0.0 0 0.0
dim 36 6.45161290323 10.42 6.28961187904
N 68 12.1863799283 23.99 14.4805939518
unclassified 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Top Bigrams

(see Bigram in glossary)

../_images/weather_bird-1.png

Top N-grams

(see N-gram in glossary)

../_images/weather_bird-2.png

Source Annotation

weather_bird.json

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  "artist": "Louis Armstrong; Earl Hines", 
  "title": "Weather Bird", 
  "metre": "4/4", 
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