March, Strathspey and reel set

Learning a march, Strathspey and reel set

Putting together a march, Strathspey and reel set

Tonight we worked on the Strathspey we learnt last week, and put it into a march, Strathspey and reel set. The set of tunes is:

Corriechoillies Welcome to the Northern Meeting (march)

Cameron’s Got His Wife Again (Strathspey)

Brenda Stubbert’s (reel)

We started off by working on getting the snaps in the Strathspey more precise and in time. We were working on moving the bow really fast on the downbows in this phrase in the B part:

The snaps in the B part of the strathspey Cameron's Got His Wife Again

It added real energy to that part of the tune. After that we worked on the joins between the 3 tunes. We also played a chord accompaniment to Brenda Stubbert’s Reel

Learning a march, Strathspey and reel set
Photo ©Ros Gasson