Table of Contents

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CD 1

1. Tune analysis, basic tune settings & style overlays, backup chords (Tracks 2-5) Swallowtail Jig, 26-27 – sheet music, slow and fast mp3s (Irish setting) 

2. Reefing the bow, slurring into the downbeat, G pentatonic scales & exercises, duplets, jig rolls/turns (Tracks 6-10) A Jigger of Blues, 28-30

3. Four Scots & Irish ornaments for a quarter note, bass runs (Tracks 11-13) Autumn Frolic, 31

4. Appalachian Old-Time shuffle bowing, drones, anticipating the beat, hammer-on, pull-off, grooveswapping (Tracks 14-18) Cluck Old Hen, 32-33

5. Bending notes and beats (Tracks 19-21) First Frost, 34

6. Split bowing w/variations, slurring into the downbeat (Tracks 22-24) Fisher’s Hornpipe, 35

7. Instant harmonies and countermelodies with rounds (Track 25)
Irish Alleluia, 36

8. Cajun seconding, hammer-on/pull-off, drones, unisons (Tracks 26-28) Jongle à moi, 37

9. Single and double jigs, roll-ups (Tracks 29-31) Kitty Magee, 38

10. French-Canadian driven up-bow syncopation I, ghost notes (Tracks 32-34) L’homme et deux femmes, 39

11. Cross or open tunings, French-Canadian crooked or unsquare meter (Tracks 35-38) La danse des foins, 40

12. Waltz harmony and bass lines, second part (Tracks 39-40)
Lullaby/Berceuse, 41-42

13. Optimum speed (Tracks 41-42) November Wind, 43

14. French-Canadian tune endings, two-key tunes, the split triplet (Tracks 43-45) Old French Reel, 44

15. Irish staccato triplets (Tracks 46-48) Over the Mountains, 45

 

CD 2

16. Scots air, Scots snap, hesitation & free meter (Tracks 2-3) Pennan Den, 46

17. French-Canadian driven up-bow syncopation II, split triplets (Tracks 4-6) Reel de Rémi, 47

18. French-Canadian crooked tunes, reefing the bow, anticipating beats (Tracks 7-9) Réunion Gigue, 48

19. Appalachian Old-Time unisons, two-note chords (Tracks 10-11) Rockin’ the Babies, 49

20. Grooveswapping, 3+1 groove bowing in New England reels (Tracks 12-15) Ross’s Reel #4, 50

21. French-Acadian variation from a basic setting (Tracks 16-19) St. Anne’s Reel, 51

22. Moveable Irish ornaments & variations as rhythms (Tracks 20-24)
Star of Munster, 52-53

23. Leaving silence in a tune, (Track 25) Sweet Journeys, 54

24. Adding two note chords, pentatonic melodies (Track 26) Thanksgiving Waltz, 55

25. Modal chord charts, Appalachian Old-Time rhythm bowing & syncopation (Tracks 27-29) The End of July, 56

26. Three Irish ornaments for a dotted quarter note in jigs (Tracks 30-32) The Sirens of Autumn, 57

27. Fingered fifths (Tracks 33-35) Transylvanian Landslide, 58

28. Harmony and bass lines (Tracks 36-37) Un canadien errant, 59

29. Chord turnarounds (I-vi-ii-V) (Tracks 38-40) Willie Coleman’s Jig, 60

30. Diatonic chord patterns and the Universal Key (Tracks 41-43) Wind that Shakes the Barley, 61

31. Jazz waltz timing, hemiola and syncopation (Track 44)
Winter Lullaby, 62