Level: 3
Tuning: CGCGCD

This is a French- Canadian tune I often play in a medley with the jig "Kalyana." Written by the late Montreal musician John-Paul Loyer, this is a tricky arrangement in CGCGCD or C sus2 tuning. This involves lots of left hand rolls and grace notes and also a good measure of right hand triplets. These are played with ring/ middle/ index fingers and are a great tool to have available for playing dance music like this. Again- try the tune slowly at first and build up to performance speed.

The harmonic ideas in this arrangement borrow heavily from my friend Andr̩ Marchand who is a master at reharmonizing a simple melody by changing the chords. Here we alter the feel of the tune second time round by radically changing the bass note. These changes generate some cool unexpected major 7th chords against the melody but note that the melody itself doesn't change.