Jocelyn Gould
Electric Guitar Solo on
I Can't Get Started

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Opening the solo section, this electric guitar improvisation spans a half chorus of the 32-bar AABA form at a ballad tempo of 67 BPM. Gould's electric guitar solo explores the lush harmonic territory of Duke's composition with warm, sustained notes and tasteful chord voicings, her half-chorus statement demonstrating that sometimes less is more in ballad interpretation. The 32-bar AABA form, a staple of the Great American Songbook, offers both structural clarity and ample harmonic terrain for improvisation. Following this solo, Thomas Hainbuch takes over on acoustic bass.