ENDEIT

Clarinet solo · 1926

Johnny Dodds: Heebie Jeebies

Key
A♭ major
Tempo
166 BPM MEDIUM UP
Rhythm feel
Twobeat
Style
Traditional
Choruses
1
Form
A18

Johnny Dodds's solo on “Heebie Jeebies” has 106 notes in 26 seconds (4.1 notes per second), spanning 16 semitones from A4 to C#6. The average tempo is 166 BPM with a twobeat feel. About 45% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

106Notes
26sSolo length
4.1Notes per second
A4–C#6Range (16 semitones)
45%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • -3 ×17
  • +1 ×15
  • -1 ×14
  • +3 ×12
  • +2 ×9
  • -2 ×9

Changes played over

A1
E♭7
E♭7
A♭
A♭
E♭7Fm7
CdimE♭7
A♭7D♭6
DdimA♭
E♭7
E♭7
A♭
A♭7
D♭Fdim
A♭F7
B♭7E♭7
A♭F7
B♭7E♭7
A♭
A♭

Record

Record
College Music Sociecty Sourcebooks in American Music, Louis Armstrong, The Original Hot Five Recordings of Louis Armstrogn · Pendragon Press, New York · 2007
Recorded
1926-02-26
Line-up
Louis Armstrong (cor); Kid Ory (tb); Johnny Dodds (cl); Lillian Hardin Armstrong (p); Johnny St. Cyr (bjo)
Composer
Boyd Atkins
Solo length
00:55- 01:21

Source: Weimar Jazz Database, Jazzomat Research Project (HfM Weimar), ODbL 1.0.