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Understanding Bagpipe Music: The Complete Guide to Every Tune Type & Time Signature by Jori Chisholm

The Short Version

Every pipe tune falls into just two big families. Piobaireachd (Ceol Mor, 'big music') stands alone as theme-and-variations music with no strict beat, while everything else — marches, dance tunes, slow airs — falls under light music (ceòl beag).
Compound vs. simple time is the master key to march styles. 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8 marches all group into threes with a dotted, held first note, while 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and polka marches split into twos and fours — recognizing which family a tune belongs to tells you how to count and phrase it.
Dance tunes share rules that cut across time signatures. Strathspeys always dot-cut, never even eighths; jigs are all smoothness and flow with no pulsing; reels come in pointed (dot-cut) or round (even) styles; and waltzes are simply reels or jigs recounted in groups of three.
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00:00Overview: two the main categories tune🔒
01:25Piobaireachd: and characteristics complexity🔒
04:46music's three Light categories🔒
05:07Slow airs: signatures rhythms and time🔒
08:04they're how where used Marches: and🔒
08:25marches: 9/8, 6/8, Compound 12/8 time🔒
12:18Simple 2/4, time 3/4, marches: 4/4🔒
17:55and 5/4 Polkas Bay the Cullen🔒
20:036/8, 9/8, Dance tunes: 12/8 in jigs🔒
24:43vs. style round Hornpipes: pointed🔒
26:40rhythm quintessential the Scottish Strathspeys:🔒
30:46and MSR Reels the🔒
34:21recounted Waltzes: three in reels🔒
35:43and wrap-up Recap🔒

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