September 2010 - "Wait A Minute"

This month's offering is an arrangement of another of David’s original tunes called “Wait A Minute”. He co-wrote this one with his long-time Nashville song writing collaborator, Herb McCullough David and Herb had previously collaborated on "Starry Lullaby", and this is another pretty waltz-time tune, though there are no lyrics with this one.  The goal was to write an instrumental "bump tune" - something that might be used as a musical "interlude" between radio programming segments.  As such, it was important for it to be about a minute in length, and this one definitely gets in just under the wire!   It has been used as such for several programs on NPR over the years. 

The song was recorded on David's 1992 release "Dulcimer Sessions", as a dulcimer/violin duet that also featured Mark O'Connor.   David's original arrangement was done in the key of G, using a capo at the 3rd fret out of D-A-d tuning.  I've transcribed that arrangement, and in addition, have provided a version in the key of D that does not require the use of a capo. 

Here’s a link to a Youtube video of the tune from the “Dulcimer Sessions” recording.

Enjoy the tune, and as David would say, keep on pickin'!