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Naming an instrumental song has always been pretty easy for me because it has no reference. You can name it anything! For example, I was working on the Fingerstyle course and had just written out this short song that I was using as an example. It needed a name so I yelled across the office hallway to one of the video editors in the next office... "Grant, what's your daughters name?" He yelled back... "Carolina". The song has been "Carolina" ever since. Another example, was a song that I did in the key of G for our Fingerstyle retreat last year. After working it out a bit with the working title of "Song in G". I went downstairs with great trepidation and played it for my wife. She said it reminded her of the Sunday drives she would take as a child. The song was then forever titled "Sunday Drive".

The other day my practice session was on some basic blues Shuffles. After the practice I started to wonder if my lesson plan actually had a name other than “boogie woogie”.That’s when I stumbled across “uptown and downtown” box patterns. So, of course my practice time this morning was again shuffles but I went “uptown”. I kinda surprised myself with what I was discovering with my fingering mistakes moving through different keys. Some of the mistake sounded pretty good. Anyway I thought I would share what I found. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIvBu9DFcGU https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2011/09/30/the-blues-shuffle-it’s-all-about-the-feel/