Level: 4
Tuning: Dropped D

This tune was composed by Abdullah Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand), the great South African pianist whose music is equally informed by modern jazz and South African traditional and popular music. "Tintiyana" is a good example; one can imagine such a melody in the hands of either Ladysmith Black Mambazo or the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. We use Ibrahim's left-hand part as our bass line, but what really makes this arrangement challenging are the stretches we need for fretting.