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Tracks of our tunes are available for download from this page.

	RIDDELL FIDDLES TEACHING CD Volume 1
1	French Waltz	1:17
2	Sound of Mull	1:07
3	Egan's Polka	1:09
4	The Highlanders Revenge (Bruce MacGregor)	1:22
5	Bonnie Tammie Scolla	0:42
6	Mrs Macleod of Raasay	1:16
7	The Soldier's Joy	1:19
8	Mrs Macleod / Soldier's Joy	2:59
9	I'll Tell Me Ma	1:55
10	Da Bonnie Polka	1:02
11	Seven Step Polka	0:55
12	Da Bonnie Polka / Seven Step Polka	1:24
13	Slow Air (Tom Hughes)	2:37
14	Jenny Dang The Weaver	0:42
15	Auld Graden Kirn (attr. Tom Hughes)	2:05
16	Auld Graden Kirn / Henry Hughes' Favourite	2:57
17	Buntata 's Sgadan (Allan MacDonald)	0:45
18	Rakes of Mallow	1:04
19	Bonnie Tammie Scolla / Rakes of Mallow	2:28
20	The Grumbler (Bruce MacGregor)	1:00
21	The Highlanders Revenge / The Grumbler	3:34
22	The Wind That Shakes The Barley	0:42
23	Bulgarian Red (Charlie McKerron)	1:23
24	Buntata 's Sgadan / Bulgarian Red	2:34
25	Jenny Dang The Weaver /The Wind That Shakes The Barley	1:46
26	Memories of Father Angus MacDonnell (Mike MacDougall)	1:25
27	Memories of Father Angus MacDonnell	2:01
28	The Mortgage Burn (Gordon MacLean)	2:12
29	The Mortgage Burn	1:35

	Titles in Bold are at "Riddell" speed

	RIDDELL FIDDLES TEACHING CD Volume 2
1	Over the Moor Among the Heather	2:53
2	The Boys Lament for his Dragon	1:51
3	MacKinnon's Brook Strathspey	1:08
4	Angus Allan & Dan J's	1:04
5	Homeward Bound	1:24
6	The High Road To Linton	1:28

Recording at Big Sky Studios

	RIDDELL FIDDLES TEACHING CD Volume 3
1	The Starry Nights of Shetland – My Cape Breton Home	3:33
2	The Jellyfish Jig	1:18
3	Sheila’s Cape Breton Jaunt	1:46
4	Hamnataing	2:24
5	The Siege of Delhi – Reel of the Blackcock – The Gentle Milkmaid	3:43
6	Da Ferry Reel – Lay Dee at Dee – Miss Spence’s	3:37
7	Calum’s Road – The Mothers of St Ann’s	3:01
8	Miss Susan Cooper – Willafjord – Spootiskerry	4:16
9	Sailing South	1:43
10	Teviot Brig – Jackson’s Morning Brush – The Stool of Repentance	3:22
11	One Hour in Hungary – Jemima – Halling from Grinstad	3:59
12	The Fifth Flight	2:22
13	The Old Glen Douglas Hall	2:26
14	Da Shaalds o’ Foula – Da Greenland Man’s Tune	2:39
15	Mangaster Voe – Minnie o’ Shirva’s Cradle Song – Winyadepla	3:26
16	Tam’s Old Love Song – Farewell to Whisky – Roxburgh Castle	4:31
17	Off to California – Harvest Home	4:02

Music Scores

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Ceilidh Band Tunes are now available here
mp3 versions of some of the new tunes are now available, check against the titles below.

Beginners' Tunes

This Term's tunes

Spring Term ' Tunes

Autumn Term's Tunes

Fishing with her Father.pdf - (mp3 file)
¤Hettie and Farquhar's Waltz - (mp3 file)
I Can Tell.pdf - (mp3 file)
¤Lime Hill.pdf - (mp3 file)

Note: This weeks new additions are marked ¤

Blue Bonnets Over The Border - (mp3 file)
Boannie Polka, Da.pdf
Broon Coo, Da.pdf - (mp3 file)
Da Auld Peat Rod.pdf / Da Sooth End.pdf - (mp3 file)
Da Brig - (mp3 file)
Ferry Reel, Da.pdf
Farewell to Whisky - (mp3 file)
Garster's Dream - (mp3 file)
Inisheer.pdf - (mp3 file)
Jenny Dang the Weaver.pdf - (mp3 file)
Lay Dee at Dee.pdf
Liberton Pipe Band - (mp3 file)
Lucy's Blues - (mp3 file)
Miss Spence's.pdf
Pipe Major Donald Morrison.pdf - (mp3 file)
Seven Step Polka.pdf
Shove The Pig's Foot A Little Further - (mp3 file)
The Glencoe March / Brenda Stubbert's - (mp3 file)
The Stronsay Waltz - (mp3 file)
Waltz for Little Girls.pdf - (mp3 file)

Andy Broon's.pdf
Cape Breton Fiddlers' Welcome to Shetland, The.pdf
Da Shaalds o' Foula.pdf
Da Slockit Light.pdf
Halling from Grinstad.pdf
Hamnataing.pdf
Harvest Home.pdf
Jellyfish Jig, The.pdf
Jemima.pdf
Josefin's Waltz.pdf
Mangaster Voe.pdf
Minnie o' Shirva's.pdf
Miss Susan Cooper.pdf
No More Cages.pdf
Off to California.pdf
One Hour in Hungary.pdf
Peter's Peerie Boat.pdf
Ronas Voe.pdf
Sailing South.pdf
Sheila's Cape Breton Jaunt.pdf
Spootiskerry.pdf
Sunset over Foula.pdf
Willafjord.pdf
Winyadepla.pdf

All the tunes previously available on this page have been archived here.

If any of the composers object to their tunes being published on this web site, please let us know, and we will be happy to remove them.

Guitar Chords

The guitar chords to accompany the tunes can be found with the link below

Chord Bank

Performance Tune Sets

Tunes	Who Plays Them
Da Auld Peat Rod/Da Sooth End + harmonies	Upper Intermediate
Off to California/Harvest Home	Upper Intermediate
Islay Rant/Tam Linn/Mortgage Burn	Younger Players
Teviot Brig/Jackson’s/Stool of Repentance	Younger Players
Siege of Delhi/Reel of Blackcock/Gentle Milkmaid	All except newer players
Auld Graden Kirn/Henry Hughes/Auld Graden Kirn	All except newer players
Calum’s Road/ Mothers of St. Ann’s	All
Hamnataing	All (newer players do middle part)
Shetland Waltz (no repeats)/My Cape Breton Home + harmonies	All with various harmonies incl. newer players’ part
Egan’s Polka/John Ryan’s	All + newer players
Tammie Scolla(no repeats)/Rakes of Mallow	Newer Players
Sound of Mull	All
Highlander’s Revenge/The Grumbler/Highlander’s Revenge	All do Highlanders Revenge with more experienced players doing Grumbler too
Mangaster Voe/Minnie O’Shirva/Winyadepla	All except newer players
Tommy Hughes (Slow Air)	All
Miss Susan Cooper-Willafjord-Spootiskerry
One Hour in Hungary-Jemima-Halling from Grinstad
Over the Moor set

These sets will be revised during Jimmy or Sheila’s classes so don’t panic if you don’t know them or have not learnt them.
These are tunes we will select from to perform for the next two terms.
YOU ARE NOT EXPECTED TO KNOW THEM ALL
Tunes taught this term such as Waltz of Little Girls & Inisheer may also be included in performances if players know them and some classes may perform specific tunes such as the Willafjord set.

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Page last updated: 29 April, 2008 13:00