The Slow Session class was started by Nigel Gatherer and has now existed for fifteen years. The main idea was to build up a repertoire and learn to play with other people. The classroom activities are just that: tunes are learned, sets are compiled and music is played. The point of action is when the class is finished and we adjourn to The Wednesday Slow Session where we are joined by others and our music is played in a pub setting.
Nigel Gatherer seeks out suitable tunes for the class course, and each year a possible list of new tunes is proposed and worked through. Inevitably, some of these tune "stick" while others don't.
During the following year (starting September 2013) we're going to continue learning sets (groups of tunes which are played together), so three or four tunes will be learned and developed in blocks.
The new term begins on Wednesday 8th January 2014. Details of what music will be covered during the coming term can be found below.
Booking
| Date |
Tunes |
| 2013 |
Term A |
| 11/9 A1 |
2/4 marches: Dornoch Links/Greenwoodside
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 18/9 A2 |
Shetland waltzes: Ronas Voe/Starry Night in Shetland
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 25/9 A3 |
pipe march: Heights of Cassino
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 2/10 A4 |
jigs: Stan Chapman's/Lisnagun
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 9/10 A5 |
pipe tunes: The Battle of Waterloo/My Braw Highland Laddie
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 16/10 XX |
MID TERM - no classes
|
| 23/10 A6 |
Gaelic waltzes: Farewell to Glasgow
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 30/10 A7 |
Cape Breton reel: The Mortgage Burn
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 6/11 XX |
PARENTS NIGHT - No class
|
| 13/11 A8 |
jigs: Wee Murdie/Lochiel's Welcome to Glasgow
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 20/11 A9 |
pipe retreat & reel: The Heights of Dargai/The Kilt Is My Delight
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 27/11 A10 |
Recap
|
| 4/12 A11 |
Slow air: Leaving Stoer and
Irish dance tune: Sonny's Mazurka
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 11/12 A12 |
End-of-term Stramash:
Heights of Dargai/Dornoch Links/Greenwoodside
[STD] [TAB]
and
Cullen Bay [STD] [TAB]
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| 2014 |
Term B |
| 8/1 B1 |
Shetland reels: Peerie Hoose Ahint da Burn/Mirrie Boys of Greenland
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 15/1 B2 |
reels: The Ardvasar Blacksmith/The Black Haired Lad
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 22/1 B3 |
Scottish waltz: Come O'er the Stream Charlie/Logie o' Buchan
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 29/1 B4 |
hornpipe: Crossing the Minch
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 5/2 B5 |
schottisches: Calum Beag/Loudon's Bonnie Woods
[STD] [TAB]
|
| 11/2 XX |
MID TERM - no classes
|
| 18/2 B6 |
march: Glencoe Village Hall
|
| 26/2 B7 |
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| 5/3 B8 |
Leaving Lochboisdale
|
| 12/3 B9 |
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| 19/3 B10 |
End-of-term Session
|
| 22/3 |
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