Tunes

FRANCAIS

Welcome to the tunes section.

  These tunes have been arranged the tunes according to difficulty, with level one being the easiest.

 The idea is that you learn one or two tunes a week, and that after one month you can progress to the next level.  

Each tune can be downloaded and printed as a jpeg.

It is a good idea to keep practicing your exercises whilst you are learning these tunes.

Tunes marked * were composed by Lindsay Davidson.

For more tunes at all levels, printable as jpegs, please look at The Ardgowan Collection.

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Where there are midi files, please remember the "magic maxim" - if you can play slowly, you can play quickly but the converse isn't necessarily true. This means as you get better you should try to play with an awareness of twice as much detail, then four times as much detail etc.

To this end, extra beats have been given in the midi files to help you keep count. This will be further explained in intermediate work in due course. Once you get the idea, it is easy, but please listen carefully to figure it out.

LEVEL 1

  Sutherland March* - March 

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Quimperle* - Air

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Skye Boat Song  - Air

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Drummond *- Air

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Amazing Grace -Air

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Auld Lang Syne  -Air

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Bonnie Lass of Fyvie - March  

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Killicrankie - March

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Jones' March* - March

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full tempo

Half speed with quaver beats

Three-quarter speed with quaver beats

Quarter speed with semi-quaver beats

LEVEL2

  Teribus  - March

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Corriechoillie’s  - March

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72^nd’s Farewell to Aberdeen - March  

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Highland Laddie  - March

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A Man’s A Man For A’ That - March  

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Jenny’s Bawbee  - March

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Ae Fond Kiss  - Air

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Bonnie Dundee  - March

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The Steamboat  - March

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LEVEL 3

Farewell To The Creeks - March

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full speed

Half speed with quaver beats

Three quarter speed with quaver beats

Paddy’s Leather Breeches - Jig(fast) 

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full speed

Half speed

Three quarter speed

Very slow, with every quaver beat sounded

Rowan Tree - March

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full speed

Half speed with quaver beats

Three quarter speed with quaver beats

Because He Was A Bonny Lad - Strathspey (dance, moderate tempo)  

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full tempo

Half speed with quaver beats

Three quarter speed with quaver beats

Aspen Bank - Strathspey

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full tempo

Half speed with quaver beats

Three quarter speed with quaver beats

Loudon’s Bonnie Woods and Braes - Strathspey  

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full speed

Half speed with quaver beats

Three quarter speed with quaver beats

The Fairy Dance - Reel (fast)

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full speed

Half speed with crotchet beats

Three quarter speed with crotchet beats

LEVEL 4

Loch Maree - March

This tune has several midi files to help you practise:

Full tempo

Half tempo with quaver beats

Three quarter tempo with quaver beats

Green Hills Of Tyrol - March

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full tempo

Half speed with quaver beats

Three quarter speed with quaver beats

When The Battle’s O’er - March

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full tempo

Half speed with quaver beats

Three quarter speed with quaver beats

Scotland The Brave - March

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full tempo

Half speed

Three quarter speed

Jenny Dang the Weaver - Reel (fast)

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full tempo

Half speed

Three quarter speed

The Eight Men Of Moidart - Reel (fast)

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full tempo

Half speed

Three quarter speed

Quarter speed with quaver beats

The High Road To Linton - Reel (fast)

This tune has several midi files to help you practice..

Full tempo

Half tempo with crotchet beats

Three quarter tempo with crotchet beats

Ultra slow with quaver beats