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

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

Tuni
ng the 3rd string to a G# enables one to reach a lot of things that otherwise would be difficult, but adds the problem in perfo
rmance 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 Pa
rties 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 Yo
rk 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