East St. Louis Toodle-Oo - acoustic fingerstyle guitar solo

A (very) rough dash through Mr. Duke Ellington's wonderful instrumental from 1927 - though I learned it via Steely Dan first!

My thanks to Mr. Squirrel for making a few appearances.

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• East
• St
• Louis
• Toodle-Oo
• Duke
• Ellington
• solo
• acoustic
• guitar
• fingerstyle
• squirrels

[buniluvr]

Sweet! Makes me want to get up and dance :) Great finger-pickin' performance. All stars ************

cheers,

julie

[0ldfinger]

@buniluvr Thanks Julie! Dancing Queen :)

[jimguitarfan]

Jeez , that is BRILLIANT ! Is that your own arrangement? Loved it - I only knew the Dan version myself, not being a jazz follower. Superb picking, my friend, and great rodent pics to enhance the perkiness of the tune.

Cheers,

Jim

[0ldfinger]

@jimguitarfan Thanks Jim! Yes I had a Steely Dan chord book, but the original is in Cm so I just transposed all the chords into Em (much more finger-friendly) then tried to find out how to wrap the tune roundabout them. It's a rough version though - if you listen to the original, there are some sections I had to miss out because I ran out of talent :)))

[Oswlek]

You've got a casual style that breathes sincerity, Nicely done.

[0ldfinger]

@Oswlek That's very kind, thank you so much!

[johnsonhogg]

thoutoughly enjoyed it Martin - face and all - I think the first time I heard this was on a Steely Dan album in the seventies - great stuff - Johnson

[KarlheinzFey1]

Great guitar playing, arrangement and video! Congrats and best regards Karlheinz

[0ldfinger]

@owlet1963 All I can hear are the flucked up bits!

[owlet1963]

@reprac9 you DEFINITELY need to have squirrels in your garden, Mister! LOL, you don't know what you are missing! :)

[owlet1963]

P.S. the ending of it is GENIUS! :D