We learnt Da Merrie Boys of Greenland tonight – a short Shetland Reel (I’ve added the music to to tunes page).
Once we’d learnt the tune, the class split into two groups, and each group spent some time thinking about double stopping, and chords that they might add into to the tune. We looked at common chord patterns that are easy to play on the fiddle, and talked about various things to think about when you are deciding on where to play chords in a tune.
We’ll come back to this tune a fair bit throughout the rest of the term.
..but where were the cakes? 😉