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Dovecote Park

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Dovecote Park — also called Doocot Park in Scottish pronunciation — is one of my favorite 6/8 marches, and I think it's underplayed. Nothing flashy about it, but it's a solid, satisfying tune that distills everything great about the 6/8 march style.

Every 6/8 march really only has three underlying rhythms, and they all resolve to the same quarter-eighth pattern. Whether it's a plain quarter-eighth, a taorluath into a note, or a dotted-eighth-sixteenth-eighth triplet, they all end on the same plain eighth note — nail that offbeat and the whole style clicks.

Watch every doubling and gracenote that comes off the same note it lands on — it's easy to rush them. F doubling from F, E doubling from high A, G gracenote strikes — in each case, give the first note its full value before rushing into the embellishment.

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00:04An 6/8 Introduction: Underplayed Classic March🔒

00:40March Rhythms Underlying 6/8 a of The Three🔒

01:53Soul: The Quarter-Eighth Pattern Heart The and🔒

02:35Six Bar, Times Tapping Per Twice Not🔒

03:31the Groove First Together Part: Putting🔒

04:28a Don't A Off Before Jump High Early Doubling🔒

05:22Low Strike the The G Heavy Gracenote G to and Strike🔒

06:48Right Part: Second on Short E A Beat the🔒

07:48Parts: Trap F and Doubling The From Fourth F Third🔒

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08:42the coming the and going part, note fourth an from we that, the in second same have F to doubling first F, in again, from bar. from the Doubling between, —

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