MUSIC

Date Tunes

Term C (February - March 2020)

3/2 C1 Mount Stuart House

10/2 XX Holiday: No Class

17/2 C2 Good Night and Joy Be With You

24/22/3

C3C4

Glasgow HighlandersCropie’s Strathspey

9/3 C5 A Fisherman’s Song

16/3 C6 Laura-Beth’s Polka

23/3 C7 Fig for a Kiss/Another Jig Will Do

Term D (April - June 2020)

30/320/4

D1D2

Kelvingrove/Soor Milk CairtRovin’ Baker Frae Milngavie

27/4 D3 My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge

4/5 XX Holiday: No Class

11/518/5

D4D5

John McAlpineKate Dalrymple

25/5 XX Holiday: No Class

1/6 D6 Practise all tunes

8/6 D7 End-of-Term Session

Zig Zags 1Patterns in Music: Zig Zags 1

Theory and Application

ZIG-ZAG SCALES are good exercises to do for developing your finger

dexterity, and also because they occur quite often in tunes. Start slowly, reading

the notation, and gradually try to increase the tempo and do it without looking at the music.

1 2

3

Zig-Zag Exercises: Key of D

4

5

Zig-Zag Exercises: Key of G

6 7

8

Zig-Zag Exercises: Key of A

The Irish CollectionFig for a K

issA Fig for a Kiss (traditional) slip jig

Another Jig Will Do (traditional) slip jig

A slip jig is a fast Irish soft-shoe stepdance

which is danced to jigs of 9/8 signature. Its equivalent in Highland dancing is

the Scottish Lilt.