Today’s post was written by Paul.
Last week’s instrumental in B 7th deserves a follow-up instrumental in B Minor, because why not? I made the tune I’m sharing today up back in my teen years.
Unfortunately, there’s not really an interesting story to go along with it. I was just picking around in my room one day when I happened upon a riff or two that sounded interesting, then I sort of built the tune around those licks.
I never came up with a title for the song, so since I’m uploading it after The Blind Pig Bounce, I figured why not call this one the B Minor Bounce?
The original instrumental that I played with Corie and shared last week did so well (6,000 views in just a couple of days) that I wanted to play this one with Corie too, but we couldn’t get our schedules synchronized. Woody only takes one nap per day, and that’s when it has to happen. We wanted to pick outside again, but the rain was another factor or variable. Anyway, I wound up doing this one by myself, though it would have been much easier with Corie playing rhythm, not to mention it would have sounded better.
As Pap would say, I slurred more notes in this take than I picked clearly, but hopefully I played it well enough to give Acorns a sense of what the song is supposed to sound like. It probably goes without saying, but this one is much more difficult to play than the Blind Pig Bounce.
My shoulder is slowly, slowly getting better, but I still can’t sit down and throw my arm over the guitar the way I normally would prefer to pick. Standing and shifting the neck of the guitar upward makes it easier on my shoulder but also makes the left-hand part of the picking harder to do correctly. At least, those are my current excuses. If my shoulder gets better, I’m sure I can come up with some new ones. 🙂
Paul
Original singles released on Spotify.
Shepherd of My Soul (Album released in 2016).
The Wilson Brothers Words of Life Album released in the 70s.
