Thanks Martin, Simon, and Christian!
I give credit to the melody itself for being, not sure what the right word is, versatile? to allow for different interpretations. It's a pretty melody.
The tune was stuck in my head (in a good way, not an earworm way) for a good week, before I set about to see what I could do with it. As a former fiddle player, my playing still always turns out 'notey' (the usual cross-string playing and weird little fiddle improv runs etc) because that's sort of all I know how to do. Speaking of improv, the flatted-7th melody note at 2:24 was *not* intentional - my finger just went to the wrong fret and I played the wrong note (wouldn't have occurred to me to play that note intentionally, at least not at a conscious level) but it's not *too* jarring I guess, in small doses anyway.
There was supposed to be video footage of me playing, but I stupidly formatted the camcorder's SD card (in preparation for whichever tune I want to record next) *before* I'd transferred the video footage to the computer. Looking back on it, I know what happened - I took the SD card out of the camcorder, I took the other SD card out of the Zoom H2n audio-only recorder (I always have the H2n and the camcorder running simultaneously because the H2n mic is better), I set both the cards on my computer keyboard so I'd remember to transfer the files, I put the H2n card into the computer's card-reader slot and transferred the audio file, then I got distracted with other stuff going on in the house and stepped away for a while, later when I came back to the computer I mistakenly thought I'd completed both the transfers, so both SD cards went back into their devices (the H2n, and the old Canon camcorder, respectively) and I formatted (erased) both the cards so I could use them again later for other projects without running out of space on the cards. So my video footage was lost. This is what happens when you get distracted from what you're doing, you lose track of where you're at. One of the best takes I've had in years and I don't have the video to show it, only the audio. But, it is what it is. So I figured I better focus on better-quality pics instead lol.
Martin wrote: "calypso"
Yeah that's the backing track creating that effect. It's a Caribbean style that the app calls "Latin-Cuba: Son Montuno 3-2" (I don't know what they mean by "son" or "montuno" or "3-2"). They also have a "2-3" version which I didn't use because the bass notes seemed timed too far ahead of the bar so I went with the "3-2" version instead which seems to have a steadier rhythm that I could get into.
Christian wrote: "So, you're not the girl in the green swimsuit, are you the one at the helm?"
I'm not telling.