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This is my first attempt at this, I got it from a very old book of Scots tunes and I have nowhere near learned it properly yet as you will hear from the mistakes, especially at the end, when I have learned it I intend posting it again.
There are no ornaments added at all yet, and even though it may seem a simple tune its the hardest by far that I have learned. I am also using a different bow which alters the sound I think, but I am not quite used to it so forgive the wandering.
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thats a great tune @stringy ! never played it myself but listened to a youtuber called suzytee severl times.. just never got around to trying it out. great start here and looking forward to hearing you some more on it. that strathespy rhythm sounds trickey. sorta a mix between a reel and a jig aint it?
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@stringy -
It's really great you're trying a strathspey! I LOVE them!
Even Alasdair Frazer said, in one of his workshops at the last Fiddle Hell - you can't learn a strathspey properly from a book.
I learned this from watching Fiona Cuthill - Captain Campbell.
She plays it regular speed 1st, then at about 0:33 she plays slow (I still set THAT slow speed down to .75 to learn it). She plays so distinctly you can easily get the bowing down.
Don't think you should feel like you have to do anything fancy with this - the important thing is the rhythm.
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Greg yup it is a sort of cross, its a very difficult rythm to get down, the music itself is as complex as classical stuff, the book its from has some really hard atuff in it, great tunea though, got the book for a quid from a second hand shop, Kerrs first collection of merry melodies for the violin, must be a hundred years old at least.
Thats a great vid Emily gives a real insight into the rythm I will be giving that quite a few watches, the gaps are not quite how its written in the book, more sort of spaced out. just found the same tune on the session as well, but there doesant appear to be the one I have on there, they are written a bit more simple, there must be 20 variations. Gives me something to keep me busy anyway.;)
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Re done much more like the correct rythm now which I had completely wrong originally, have to polosh it up now, tighten here and there and work on it, I thi k this is a great tune, and may even start a Scots party theme.
Dont know if I am allowed to put the music on here if not I will delete it, but its out of copyright being 100 years old and is in the public domain
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lm not one to help any on these..havent played them at all.. but that sounds more like what ive heard. much better in the rhythm approach for a strathespy!
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Bit more like it greg, not too far off, the fast notes throw me every time, I was thinking of slurring them.
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This is the best tutorial I have found and is the one I am going to learn this from, he explains the bowing very well and its history. Completely different technique to Irish.
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@stringy -
You sound better!
Chris Haigh's is a great tutorial. Look closely at all the wrist movement of strathspey players - sometimes hard to see.
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The rythm of these strathspeys is indeed difficult, no doubt about it, very unusual. I will get there though.
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That's a new one on me, the tone your getting from your fiddle is very good, you have progressed much on that tune from the first go.
That is a ruff rhythm to master for sure.
Thanks for posting
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@stringy Great work on that—rhythm is tough on this one, for sure—I think you got the feel of it on the second go round.
Looking at it, I would have slurred the fast notes, like you said, but I guess that’s not the way it works in the Scottish playing, according to Chris Haigh’s video.
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Thanks mark and sharon, I think playing tunes with different rythms teach you things, and so apart from the enjoyment I get out of it I like to think I am learning as well:)
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