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Welcome
to the tunes for beginners' section. Each tune listed below has its
own individual page that you can go to. The tunes for beginners are
listed first. It is suggested that you learn all of these tunes
before going on to the slightly more advanced ones. There is a list of tunes too that everybody in the world expects you to play (as members of the public), and a list of the standard tues known to every piper. You would be well advised to learn these too. These tunes are selected and prepared to be easy and suitable for beginners whilst serving the purpose of building technical security and developing good musical language (they are not 'dumbed down'). As well as using the practise method to establish your technical foundation strongly, you should also simply enjoy playing along with the tune videos. As you get better and more comfortable with your technique, then you will want to go to the more advanced section where the tunes have midi generated files or videos (this is being updated all the time) playing at half and quarter speed too. This is how you will advance. Beginner tunes - please learn them all!!
Drummond Sutherland March Quimperle Skye Boat Song Jones' March Killiecrankie The Bonnie Lass o Fyvie Jenny's Bawbee Auld Lang Syne Rowan Tree Teribus Corriechoillie Scotland The Brave The order given above is a good order to learn these tunes in. Once you can play these comfortably you should think about transitioning to bagpipes. Tunes the public expect you to know (some repeats of the above) Amazing Grace A Man's a Man for A' That Highland Cathedral Scotland The Brave Scots Wha Hae Auld Lang Syne Tunes that all pipers know, and the tunes they are always combined with Highland Laddie The Green Hills of Tyrol When the Batle's O'er Lochanside Kilworth Hills Loch Maree Scotland the Brave Rowan Tree Bonnie Galloway Glendaruel Highlanders Highland Laddie (this is a very important tune for pipe band culture) The tunes that were previously on this page are listed below so that you can still find them: Ae Fond Kiss - Air Aspen Bank - Strathspey Because He Was a Bonnie Lad - Strathspey Bonnie Dundee - March Eight Men of Moidart, The - Reel Fairy Dance, The - Reel Farewell to the Creeks - 6/8 March High Road to Linton, The - Reel Jenny Dang the Weaver - Reel Loudon's Bonnie Woods and Braes - Strathspey Paddy's Leather Breeches - Jig Steamboat, The - March 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 understand this better please refer back to the page explaining one great way to practise. When you feel ready to explore the repertoire in greater depth and independently, there is the library of tunes with videos and exercises and commentaries here. | |||||||||||||||||
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