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Date  29 January 2011 My first 'Big Session' for Celtic Connections, and I concentrated on methods for learning tunes by ear, looking at different musical patterns.
Location Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Theme "Big Groupwork"
Participants 29
 Music
staff notation
staff notation mando tab

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CC02
Date  4 February 2012 'Scale runs' are what I call sequences of notes which only ever go up or down one note of the scale, and recognising them can aid in memorising tunes.
Location Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Theme "The Big Session"
Participants 38
 Music
staff notation
staff notation mando tab

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CC03
Date  20 January 2013 The Big Session is slowly growing and my recurring general theme is becoming ways to make tunes more accessible using patterns, structures and laughs.
Location City Halls, Glasgow
Theme "Big Groupwork"
Participants 43
 Music
staff notation
staff notation mando tab

CC 4
CC04
Date  19 January 2014 Highland jigs - simple tunes found in 19th century bagpipe music collections. We also did work on dynamics, crescendos and sensitivity - honest!
Location City Halls, Glasgow
Theme "Highland Jigs"
Participants 50
 Music
staff notation
staff notation mando tab photos

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CC05
Date  25 January 2015 Tunes from the 18th and 19th centuries were the order of the day, and The Death of the Wren was the big hit of the day.
Location City Halls, Glasgow
Theme "Highland Reels"
Participants 50
 Music
staff notation
staff notation mando tab


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