A Bagpipe Lesson for The Harvest Home Hornpipe

I have chosen another traditional hornpipe called The Harvest Home Hornpipe. This is another one of the tunes I played during my tenure with The Royal Scots. I have written some background information on hornpipes and how I received these tunes, please see the notes on last month's Tune of the Month.

Lesson Pointers

When approaching the tune tend to play each one or two bars at a time very steadily, accurately, with attention to each beat basic rhythm of downbeat/upbeat, and relaxed good clarity of the shorter notes. Let the tune eventually roll along in a kind of relaxed rollicking way.

Technically, pay good attention to clarity of the tachums, and the paired triplets/triplings. The second part first two bars must have good clarity of the low As preceding the birls on low A, and avoid playing the upper preceding notes too long. These details are pointed out in the audio file of the tune.

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The Harvest Home Hornpipe

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The Harvest Home Hornpipe

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P/M emeritus, Grandfather Mtn. Highlanders
PM Robertson......excellent teaching method however I would play the hornpipe somewhat slower at first for those like me with old stiff fingers......keep ...

Always enjoy watching you play Bill
If only I could play like that! I'm just an old geezer (62) trying to connect to my Lowlander roots.

I'm just in the chanter stage of playing but ...

Terry Armstrong
I always enjoy learning from P/M Bill Robertson. This is an excellent hornpipe! I am also a Scottish fiddler, and this hornpipe is similiar to, "Harvest ...

Name of "Hornpipe 2" = "Liverpool Hornpipe"
Hello, Bill.

Greetings from the US. I hope you are well. Thanks for your Tune of the month - enjoyale as it is helpful!

This tune is called "The ...

Traditional Hornpipe 2 - Name
This is a slightly different variant of a tune I learned when playing with P/M Gord Tuck's MacNish Distillery Pipe Band in the 1970s and 1980s and still ...

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The name of the Hornpipe is "Harvest Home"
Regards
William O'Donnell

Ashley Not rated yet
Excellent! Thank you for taking the time to produce these lessons.

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