Jock Broon’s 7oth

We learnt this pipe hornpipe  tonight, which was written by Gordon Duncan. It’s a syncopated 3 part tune. The rhythms in the 3rd part are similar to the Mouth of the Tobique, which we learnt last week. The tune is quite unusual, and took a while to learn.

At the start of the evening we spent some time working on chords, using the last part of the Mouth of the Tobique. We added a chord using a B played along with the Gs in the tune. The chord can either be played just on the emphasised notes, or on all the notes in the phrase. These two options have a very different effect on the rhythm. We worked on getting both notes in the chord in tune.