First Steps, An Introduction to Playing the Wire-Strung Clarsach   (available to purchase here)

First Steps, cover
First Steps, cover
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First Steps, back cover
First Steps, back cover
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*COMING SOON* Karen will be recording the tunes and exercises in the book which will be available to buy online as windows media player files.  Check back for more details. *

 

CONTENTS

 

Foreword

i

A brief guide to reading music

1

Tuning your clarsach

2

Obair Latha  (Karen Marshalsay) a first tune

3

Fixed positions, damping and the C major scale

4

Fixed position exercise

5

Uamh 'n Oir  (Trad Gaelic)

6

Modes

7

Dh'fhalbh an Triùir Mhaighdeanan (Trad Gaelic)

8

Olaf's Reel  (Karen Marshalsay)

9

1s and 0s / Thinking about rhythm (Obair Latha)

10

Coupled Hands Technique

11

Queen Mary, Queen Mary  (Trad Scots)

12

Thig am Bàta  (Trad Gaelic)

13

Saky Saky Pirn Taes   (Trad Scots)

14

Hishie Ba (Trad Scots)

15

The Three-Legged Clàrsach   (Karen Marshalsay)

16

The Owls of Alnwick Castle   (Karen Marshalsay)   

using the thumb choke, half scratch,

bee’s plait and break.

17-20

The Robert ap Huw manuscript

21

Edward Bunting

21

Sources of Scottish repertoire and further study

22

 

 

 

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