Level: 3/4
Tuning: Standard

This is an exercise in playing a classic blues tune in a New Orleans/Latin rumba style. Like in Looking for a Woman, the goal would be to nail down the rumba rhythmic pattern in the right hand before moving on to the lefthand work. In this piece I don’t use the strum in the verse like in Looking for a Woman, but favor percussive righthand rolls to give it a light bounce. The lefthand features a lot of work with the pinky - pull offs, triplets, etc - particularly in the variations, and in general is where you’ll find all the complicated stuff. The challenge was to incorporate a bit of that Professor Longhair/Champion Jack Dupree/Archibald style and make it work for the guitar.