Hi everyone...don't get around to posting much here but do come to read occasionally...I saw the tune of the month and it took a while to get around to post a version...it's different from what I normally play with a band and it's and approach I just recently worked out. It seems to "fill in the holes" when playing this tune by yourself. Let me know what y'all think.
Also I will be at Festival Acadiens and play with my band Sunday 10:30 AM and with Milton Vanicor at 12 Noon. Hope to see some "Braves" there.
REALLY wish I was going to FA this year, just to see you play there Chris - you're the one that got the ball rolling for me, when - 2008? 2009? It was a Saturday, around noon. That's when I decided, dammit, I'm never going to learn to play this music until I get a for-real Cajun accordion. That's also the day I danced holes in my feet . . .
It started my tough day with a smile, when I saw you had posted this song. Now I need to go listen to it . . .
Thanks, everyone! Peer--that boogie pattern took a little while for me to figure out how to make it fit in a work in this version! If I could have done it with the left hand I would have--but of course you know the limitations on the left side of the Cajun accordion. I did have a challenge trying to make the bass side work WITH the tune and not against it since the G notes are almost all on the push and the G basses are on the pull. It came out sounding pretty good I thought--but this song is not one that sounds naturally good with the basses. Kind of like Jolie Blonde--the basses kind of work against the tune unless you get creative.
That's some spectacular use of those low treble buttons. I've tried and tried to do that on other songs, but my fingers act drunk. The fingering up(down) there doesn't come as natural as it does at the 5,6,7 buttons.
What I admire so much about this version is that Chris figures out that pattern, and then makes it sound completely intuitive. It flows out like it's "simple comme bonjour", which it isn't! That's music.