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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
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Quimperle
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Skye Boat Song
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Drummond
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Amazing Grace -Air
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Auld Lang Syne
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Bonnie Lass of Fyvie - March
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Killicrankie - March
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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
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Corriechoillie’s
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72nd’s Farewell to Aberdeen - March
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Highland Laddie
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A Man’s A Man For A’ That - March
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Jenny’s Bawbee
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Ae Fond Kiss
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Bonnie Dundee
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The Steamboat
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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
Three quarter speed with quaver beats
Aspen Bank - Strathspey
This tune has several midi files to help you practice..
Full tempo
Half speed
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
This tune has several midi files to help you practice..
Full tempo
Half speed
Three quarter speed with quaver beats
When The Battle’s O’er
This tune has several midi files to help you practice..
Full tempo
Half speed
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
Hand Position and the Scale
Crossing sounds
G Gracenotes
D Gracenotes
E Gracenotes
G,D,E Gracenotes exercise
Strikes
Throws
Doublings - general principles
Low G Doublings
Low A Doublings
B Doublings
C Doublings
D Doublings
E Doublings
F Doublings
High G Doublings
High A Doublings
Grips
Taorluath
Birl
Tachum
Hara
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