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Some good toe tapping Scottish marches in this latest set of tunes on tube. For a change I've included some photos of yours truely on stage. STOP LAUGHING !!  Scottish marches
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I enjoyed both the music and the photos. No laughing here my friend as when we get to a certain age many of us could pass for brothers. With that said well done you Handsome Chap!
Later,
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Hey furry I'll listen when the wife quits on the TV. Dual purpose room eh? You use the Scottish 3/4 style at all? I just threw that at what 'mericans know as the Star Spangled Banner and I as Old Hiram in Heaven and you can find as the Anacrenon Song. I really like it. But then my hearing is about 40 percent gone right now and I can only really handle the speakers on the Tv. For some reason a flat panel Toshiba sounds OK but if I put the same sound through anything else I own I hate it. The Mini is the worst. Sounds like the front speakers are all blown. Oh well, not as bad as it was.
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Where can I find this Scottish 3/4 style, please?
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Jim it's a 4/4 style I use here.
Instruments are
Piano rehearsal showcase tempo I think's about the 200 point
Real drums are Tango believe it or not !!!
Midi banjo.
I do my own 2nd accordion
John.
For Scottish 3/4 I would use simply
Pop waltz piano ( b energetic ) set at 85
Country waltz drums ( brushes )
Possibly a pedal steel set in the waltz tempo.
The other piano good for Scottish music is the Rehersal showcase waltz at 140
Pop waltz real drums etc......
Clean 6 / 8 styles need to be catered for ( like a tarantella )
Nothing fancy with dumb little runs & riffs that serve no purpose other than to annoy you, just a cood clean beat, with a nice
6/8 snare drum. Some good rolls in a ' b ' section and again, nothing fancy.
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Hi Fury,
Very nice - enjoyed
Jim
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Graham, I enjoyed it very much as per usual.
Don S.
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Graham, great music, as always, from my favorite accordionist. You ALWAYS put a smile on my face when I hear your music. I liked those pictures also. Especially the last one that showed you in your “hippie” years 
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Why does toilet paper need a commercial? Who's not buying it?
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That was taken last year at a friends house Mario Should've kept the wig Thanks for the comments guys
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Hi Graham,
I thoroughly enjoyed the marches. They too me back to the days when I used to do Scottish Highland Dancing! That was a few decades ago now!
All the best,
Noel
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No laughing from me, my friend - just my thanks for putting a smile on my face.
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Hi. Thank you for posting the Scottish marches. I hope that i will eventually go to Scotland, cause i heard that it is a nice place. However, i don't want to be rude, i like more the Irish music. It's different from anything i heard. I would like to know if is there any kind of compilation of, let's say top 20 songs of Scottish or Irish music, cause i would definitively love to listen to them.
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Scottish music varies from district to district. The style & tempo differ completely from say Shetland, to the western islands. Shetland music is faster, and favours a strong Scandinavian influence, Music in the west is slower and favours more Scottish gaelic tunes.
You'll find Scottish songs differ from area to area too as do Irish ones.
Do a google for favourite Scottish songs and also tunes and listen on you tube
Then do the same for Irish
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Thanks for the info as for the tunes.
I'm a complete newbie, trying to figure out how to set up my biab to sound like your band. BTW, I'd also like to have a CDSS style band. And a Playford band. And a New England Contra Dance band.
Here's my confusion: I have a list of styles on disk. You say, "It is a 4/4 style I use here." I do not find that in my list of styles.
And I don't know where the rehearsal showcase piano is, either. Is it on one of the gazillion add on disks from PGM? (Their vast array of buying options, etc. have daunted me.)
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To begin with Jim, you need to try out most country & pop styles. Arrange a tune that you want backing for even 16 bars to get you going. If you don't have the new real track styles, try some of the classical styles ( marches etc... ) for Scottish tunes
Now, here comes the fun part. Load different styles for the tune and have only one going as a solo. Mute all the rest and see which one comes near to what you're after. Piano, bass, drums 2nd accordion & fidde are the usual line up for a Scottish band. The rehearsal showtunes piano style is on the newer releases of biab and is included in the newest release. I've found that using the tango drums ( speeded up ) in the real drumming syle disks are great for Scottish Marches & reels. Just don't look for anything entitled 4/4, it ain't there. The only thing biab doesn't do yet is good 6/8 styles for us Scottish folk.
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graham, as always, great hunkavar playing and the pictures put a face to the name. thank you.
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