Level: 2
Tuning: Dropped D

This tune was the only instrumental written by the late Pete Seeger. It has become a stock piece of repertoire for thousands of budding fingerstyle guitarists and recorded and is performed regularly by guitarists like Leo Kottke and myself. I think it's a real testament to Seeger's genius that his only instrumental has had such an influence on the fingerstyle community.

This tune, played by Seeger in a calypso style, reflects his important but little known love and advancement of Trinidadian steel drums in American folk music. The arrangement is meant to be played slowly with an easy-going calypso bass line. It has been a favorite of students who first venture into pieces with independent bass lines and counterpoint.