Tim has been a regular contributor to the National Piping Centre’s Piping Today magazine, now existing online at Bagpipe.news. A number of his previously-published articles are linked below, with the remainder being posted in the coming months.
Here are two articles that explore the practice of learning tunes by ear (originally published in Piping Today, but not yet uploaded to Bagpipe.news):
And the Piping Today articles that have now been re-published on Bagpipe.news:
MUSICAL KEYS
- Tunes in the key of D-Major
- Tunes in the key of A-Mixolydian
- Tunes in the key of A-Major
- Tunes based on a ‘gapped’ A scale
- Tunes based in A-pentatonic major
- Tunes in B-minor
- ‘Double-Tonic’ Tunes
- Tunes in the Dorian mode
- Tunes in G-Major
- Exotic tunes and tunes that change key
HARMONY WRITING
- Harmony Writing (Part 1): an introduction to writing harmony for ensembles
- Harmony Writing (Part 2): writing harmonies of thirds
- Harmony Writing (Part 3): discovering chords (as a basis for crafting harmonies)
- Harmony Writing (Part 4): discovering chords, continued
ARRANGING MUSIC
HARMONICS