Cornet solo · 1925
Louis Armstrong: Gut Bucket Blues
- Key
- C major
- Tempo
- 146 BPM MEDIUM UP
- Rhythm feel
- Twobeat
- Style
- Traditional
- Choruses
- 1
- Form
- A12
Louis Armstrong's solo on “Gut Bucket Blues” has 48 notes in 21 seconds (2.3 notes per second), spanning 15 semitones from D4 to F5. The average tempo is 146 BPM with a twobeat feel. About 32% of the melodic motion is stepwise (one or two semitones).
Notes
48Notes
21sSolo length
2.3Notes per second
D4–F5Range (15 semitones)
32%Stepwise motion
Pitch-class distribution
C
C♯
D
E♭
E
F
F♯
G
A♭
A
B♭
B
Most frequent intervals
- 0 ×11
- -3 ×6
- +3 ×5
- -2 ×5
- +2 ×4
- +1 ×3
Changes played over
A1
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
- Louis Armstrong
- Solo length
- 01:55-02:15
Source: Weimar Jazz Database, Jazzomat Research Project (HfM Weimar), ODbL 1.0.