As this is an advanced level book I’ve arranged the tunes in sets as I would perform them. I have also included ornamentation to give those with less experience of the Scottish tradition an idea of the kind of decoration and variation that might be used. As ornamentation is a subtle and changing thing these will not be exactly the way I play them every time! Fingering has been given for the less obvious passages, and for those occasions when I strongly feel that the fingering I use gives the best effect. Classically trained players may find some of my fingerings unusual but I encourage you to try them out and see if they work for you. Dynamics have only been given for the last set which is more of a composition than the traditional pieces, as it is very much the player’s role in traditional music to give expression to the performance in an individual way, rather than to follow a ‘composer’s intentions’. 28 pages.

Titles: The Peterhead Harp, St Fillan’s Monastery, Thog am bàta na siùil / Dhomhnuill A Dhomhnuill!, Jig set: Roaring Jelly / Off She Goes / The Price of a Pig, March, strathspeys & reel set: Greenwoodside / Captain Horne / Louden’s Bonnie Woods and Braes / Jenny Dang the Weaver, Return to Kashmagiro, Reels set: Andrew’s Smiles / Reel for Yatra / The Forth Bridge Reel, Am faca tu’n gobha?, Ida y Vuelta Set, View from Afar / Travelling South / Ida y Vuelta.