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The website pipetunes.ca is the first large-scale site of its kind to provide individual pieces of bagpipe sheet music and recorded demonstrations for download. The work, experience and finances that have gone into creating it would surprise you. The efforts required by composers to create this music would inspire you. The site will continue to operate and evolve and provide unparalleled access to new and old pipe music if and only if clients follow the following simple guidelines:
1) Download files for your own personal use; print multiple copies only for tunes being learned within your pipe band or taught to your student.
2) PLEASE do not email files or transfer them to other computers. Insist that fellow pipers and students support this site. The site will be easy to use as long as I don't have to incorporate unwieldy security.
3) Do not post any of these files to a website of any sort.
While I hope it will never come to this, I will not tolerate abuses to these guidelines. A system in in place for pipetunes.ca to pursue legal action. Thanks for your support. I look forward to enhancing and expanding the bagpipe sheet music and recording services offered by pipetunes.ca.
Hi, Jim,
Thank you for making the recording and posting the tune. My instructor, Iain McKee, will be helping with the tune.
We started working on the tune and have a question about the second full measure of the second part. In the Scotts Guards setting, it has dot, cut, dot, cut with a half doubling on the F and a throw on D in the first half of the phrase, but we like your setting in which you play cut, dot, dot, cut with no half doubling, G grace note on the A and then the throw on D.
Is the Scotts Guards setting wrong? I have heard one band recording that plays it like the Scotts Guards setting. I was wondering if it is a personal preference?
The same question comes up in the second ending in the last part. The phrase in Scotts Guards is dot, cut, dot cut, but you play with a dot, cut, cut, dot, and we like that better, too! It seems to follow the pattern of the third part that way.
Anyway, I hope this makes sense. Before I memorize it, I want to make sure I have it right. Can you please advise Iain and me? Thank you so much! Martha Davis
You see it published both ways. This setting comes from Willie Ross’s Book 3. In lower grades you probably hear it played more frequently in the Scots Guards setting, also published this way in the early Glenaruel Collection.
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Hi, Jim,
Thank you for making the recording and posting the tune. My instructor, Iain McKee, will be helping with the tune.
We started working on the tune and have a question about the second full measure of the second part. In the Scotts Guards setting, it has dot, cut, dot, cut with a half doubling on the F and a throw on D in the first half of the phrase, but we like your setting in which you play cut, dot, dot, cut with no half doubling, G grace note on the A and then the throw on D.
Is the Scotts Guards setting wrong? I have heard one band recording that plays it like the Scotts Guards setting. I was wondering if it is a personal preference?
The same question comes up in the second ending in the last part. The phrase in Scotts Guards is dot, cut, dot cut, but you play with a dot, cut, cut, dot, and we like that better, too! It seems to follow the pattern of the third part that way.
Anyway, I hope this makes sense. Before I memorize it, I want to make sure I have it right. Can you please advise Iain and me? Thank you so much! Martha Davis
You see it published both ways. This setting comes from Willie Ross’s Book 3. In lower grades you probably hear it played more frequently in the Scots Guards setting, also published this way in the early Glenaruel Collection.