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.