Active Band Tunes

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

2/4 Tunes

3/4 Tunes

4/4 Tunes

5/4 Tunes

6/8 Tunes

Strathspey & Reel

Special Occasions

 

Sets – Combinations of tunes from our play list 

4/4 Set

Competition Set

Irish Marching Set

Medley

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.

42nd, The

79ths Farewell to Gibraltar, The

Black Bear, The

Campbells Farewell to Redcastle

Corriechoillie’s 43rd Welcome to the Northern Meeting

Dornoch Links

Earl of Mansfield, The

High Road to Gairloch, The

I’ll Gang Nae Mair Tae Yon Toon

Itchy Fingers

Liberton Pipe Band

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

Rattlin’ Bog, The

Teribus

3/4 Tunes

This time signature is found commonly in waltzes, minuets, scherzi, country and western ballads, R&B, pop

Amazing Grace

Jimmy Mackenzie

The Green Hills of Tyrol

Mull of Kintyre

She Moved Through The Fair

When the Battle is Over

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!

Crags of Tumble Down Mountain

Falkland Palace

Highland Cathedral

Last of the Mohicans (Main Theme & The Gael)

Minstrel Boy Harmonies

Rowan Tree

Scotland The Brave

Wings

5/4 Tunes

Cullen Bay

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

A Hundred Pipers

Atholl Highlanders, The

Back to Donegal

Bonnie Dundee

Cock of the North, The

Dark Island, The

Killaloe

Paddy Carey

St Patricks Day

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!

Molly Connell

Piper of Drummond, The

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.

Auld Lang Syne

A Man’s A Man For A’ That

Happy Birthday

Christmas

Ding Dong Merrily On High

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Good King Wenceslas