Looking for Music: Scotland the Brave

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Hello all - I am looking for the notation for ‘Scotland the Brave’. I’ve checked at all the sites I have bookmarked (Sessioneer.org, etc.) but haven’t found it. Any help would be greatly apprecaited. I know it’s trad thought of as a pipe tune, but it sounds really cool on a C whistle (what I can fake of it anyway). THX

Leel

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Try this. http://www.abacci.com/music/tune.asp?tuneID=918

If that doesn’t work for you, try a google search for “scotland the brave” notation.

All the Best, Tom

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There are more than you could ever want in an assortment of keys at http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html

Just type in the name in the search box.

Enjoy.

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Thanks tons! The tune has been captured! :slight_smile:

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i could not help noticing that the reference in TOmBs post, while very nice, is in the key of G, which means you loose the effect of the “scottish” or “highland bagpipe” or myxolidian mode.

it turns out that on any whistle you can get a full scottish scale by just starting on A and playing up (using C# of course rather than C natural). the highland bagpipes have only 9 notes- the 8 of that scale, and the g natural below.

seen that way, you can play ANY pipetune on any whistle. just read directly off the pipe music. when you come to an ornament, just add one you are more comfortable with.

meir

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Sorry to anyone if I confused the issue. I know nothing of myxolidian modes, (or any other modes for that matter).

All the Best, Tom

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Here’s one that’s completely whistle-ready:

http://www.fifedrum.org/resources/music/gif/company1/00000019.shtml

There are lots of other great tunes at this site.

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Jim

Thanks for posting that link - I hadn’t seen it before

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When playing whistle with highland pipes it is common practice to play D whistle fingerings (a= xxo ooo) but on an Eb whistle. So Scotland the Brave would start on xxo ooo.

But considering that Amazing Grace (the most requested bagpipe tune) is fingered nearly identically to how it is on the bagpipe, the same can be done with Scotland the Brave (the 2nd most requested tune on the bagpipe). This cannot be done with all pipe tunes as the pipe chanter has a hole for the bottom pinky. In those cases play as written, not as fingered.

Cheers,
Aaron

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I love fifedrum.org, don’t you, jim mc? :slight_smile:

Scotland the Brave reminds me of the old Irish Spring commercial music. I learned StB last year by ear from one of our officers who knew it on harmonica.

madfifer9
Linda S.

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I don’t think I’ve ever heard Scotland the Brave.

I thought I’d never heard Auld Lang Syne(sp) either until recently, at which point I realise I’d heard it five billion times.

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Odds are high that you’ll go through the same experience with Scotland the Brave as you did with Auld Lang Syne.

Some folks think Scotland the Brave is the only tune bagpipers play (not far from the truth in some instances :roll: ) and that good pipers can play Amazing grace too… :boggle:

I went to a liberal arts college with a pipe band (Lyon College). The band was the most exposure to bagpipes a lot of students ever had. A funny story I heard is that on a trip to Scotland a student heard a bagpiper playing Scotland the Brave and asked him how he knew the Lyon College school song. :laughing:

Cheers,
Aaron