Band Tunes

Below are tunes we play as a band, as you might expect with tunes played around the world there are possible slight variations to what you know. If you’re interested you can click the links to view a PDF of the settings we have for each tune we play or where displayed, play an example of the music being played.

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

Barren Rocks of Aden, The

Black Bear, The

Brown Haired Maiden, The

Campbells Farewell to Redcastle

Corriechoillie’s 43rd Welcome to the Northern Meeting

High Road to Gairloch, The

I’ll Gang Nae Mair Tae Yon Toon

Itchy Fingers

Liberton Pipe Band

Mhairi’s Wedding

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

Killiecrankie

Last of the Mohicans (Main Theme & The Gael)

Loch Ruan

Nameless

Rowan Tree

Scotland The Brave

Thomas Sander

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

Back to Donegal

Back to Donegal – Half speed version:

Bonnie Dundee

Cock of the North, The

Dark Island, The

Farewell to the Creeks

Hot Punch

Killaloe

Leaving Port Askaig

MacDonald of Glencoe

Paddy Carey

Pipe Major John Grant

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