ENDEIT

Clarinet solo · 1925

Johnny Dodds: My Heart

Key
E♭ major
Tempo
192 BPM UP
Rhythm feel
Twobeat
Style
Traditional
Choruses
1
Form
A8B8

Johnny Dodds's solo on “My Heart” has 111 notes in 20 seconds (5.5 notes per second), spanning 14 semitones from C#3 to Eb4. The average tempo is 192 BPM with a twobeat feel. About 47% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).

Notes

111Notes
20sSolo length
5.5Notes per second
C#3–Eb4Range (14 semitones)
47%Stepwise motion

Pitch-class distribution

Most frequent intervals

  • +1 ×17
  • +3 ×17
  • -2 ×13
  • -1 ×13
  • +2 ×9
  • -3 ×8

Changes played over

A1
E♭
B♭+7
E♭
Ddim
E♭7
A♭7
Fm7
B♭7
B1
B♭7
B♭7
E♭
C7
F7
F7
B♭7
B♭7
I1
N.C.
N.C.

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
1925-11-12
Line-up
Louis Armstrong (cor); Kid Ory (tb); Johnny Dodds (cl); Lillian Hardin Armstrong (p); Johnny St. Cyr (bjo)
Composer
Lillian Hardin
Solo length
01:01-01:23

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