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 Celtic Connections
Workshops 6-10
CC 6
CC06
Date  16 January 2016 Three nice Scottish tunes with arpeggio patterns, scale runs and interesting names. It's always a bonus when a tune has an interesting name!
Location Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Theme "Scottish Tunes"
Participants 69
 Music
staff notation
staff notation mando tab photos

CC 7
CC07
Date  21 January 2017 All the tunes this years did not travel more than one note up or down throughout the whole tune, including Caroline Hewat, which I wrote for the late organiser of the CC workshops.
Location Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Theme "Scale Runs"
Participants 75
 Music
staff notation
staff notation mando tab

CC 8
CC08
Date  20 January 2018 Sometimes when you apply words to a tune it can help greatly with committing it to memory. That was the thrust of this year's workshop. It may have sounded peculiar, but it worked!
Location City Halls, Glasgow
Theme "Words into Music"
Participants 82
 Music
staff notation
staff notation mando tab photos

CC 9
CC9
Date  25 January 2019 All four tunes this years shared the same key of G pentatonic, and I used that to show how much easier it can be if you know your pentatonic scales. We also composed part of Monzievaird Hall.
Location Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Theme "Pentatonics"
Participants 95
 Music
staff notation
staff notation mando tab photos

CC 10
CC10
Date  18 January 2020 All the tunes in all CC workshops this year shared a common theme: Songs of the Sea. We spent most time on the first tune, Star of the Sea.
Location City Halls, Glasgow
Theme "Music of the Sea"
Participants 70
 Music
staff notation
staff notation mando tab photos


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