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Tuning: Lo---->Hi E A D G# B E

This piece is specifically arranged for Fingerstyle Guitar by Stan Hancoff.

Tuning the 3rd string to a G# enables one to reach a lot of things that otherwise would be difficult, but adds the problem in performance of occassionally breaking the string not designed to go so high! This is such a high-powered, bouncy piece of music that it just feels great playing it.
Stan Hancoff

Rent Parties were a unique feature of Harlem social life in the 1920's. It would typically cost about $1 to get in and 25 cents for a drink. The host paid his rent from the proceeds. Duke Ellington said of these parties: [When we 1st arrived] in New York the gigs were few and far between, but we could always count on Saturday. We could get all the food we wanted and take some home, and a dollar besides.....We played the house-rent parties every Saturday night. That was home sweet home.
Duke Ellington 1929