Below, you’ll find the tunes we currently perform as a band. For tunes that are not part of our active repertoire, please visit our band tune archive.
As with many traditional tunes played globally, there may be slight variations from the versions you’re familiar with. If you’re interested in exploring our specific arrangements, you can click on the links to view a PDF of each tune’s setting or listen to an audio example where available.
Sets – Combinations of tunes from our play list
2/4 Tunes
More difficult than the ubiquitous 4/4 or 3/4, also associated with musical theatre, they have all the dash and vigour we associate with real Scottish pipe music.
79ths Farewell to Gibraltar, The
Campbells Farewell to Redcastle
Corriechoillie’s 43rd Welcome to the Northern Meeting
I’ll Gang Nae Mair Tae Yon Toon
PM William Ross’s Farewell to the 2nd Battalion Scot’s Guards
PM William Ross’s Farewell to the 2nd Battalion Scot’s Guards Harmonies
3/4 Tunes
This time signature is found commonly in waltzes, minuets, scherzi, country and western ballads, R&B, pop
4/4 Tunes
Very widely used timing, you’ll come across it in rock, country, blues, funk, pop as well as one of the most famous Scottish Tunes – Scotland the Brave!
Last of the Mohicans (Main Theme & The Gael)
5/4 Tunes
6/8 Tunes
This is a fun time found commonly in double jigs, polkas, sega, salegy, tarantella, marches, barcarolles, Irish jigs, loures, and some rock music
Strathspey & Reel
A strathspey is one of the four traditional dances (along with reel, jig and the waltz) and is in the 4/4 time but follows a different style. It is similar to a hornpipe, but slower and more stately, and contains many dot-cut ‘snaps’. The Reel is indigenous to Scotland, though a firm favourite in Ireland, and like the strathspey is similar to a hornpipe only played twice as fast!
Special Occasions
Some tunes are synonymous with certain occasions, they may not fit with a march or on the parade field but they are great tunes we love to play in that perfect moment.