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The Hawk

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A fiddle tune turned hornpipe, with two parts of my own. The Hawk's first two parts were written by fiddler James Hill in the 1800s; I added the third and fourth parts myself in the 1990s after falling for the tune.

Played in the round style, with a hint of dot-cut. The tune is typeset in the round style — sixteenth notes basically even — but I add just a slight hint of dot-cut, landing in the gray area between round and pointed playing.

Control is everything in the fourth part. The repeating arpeggio pattern in part four needs patient metronome work at a slow tempo, building up gradually rather than pushing for speed too soon.

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00:07James A I and hornpipe: Hill four-parted🔒

01:02hornpipes vs. style Pointed style round🔒

01:50dot-cut a hint Playing with of round🔒

02:28the phrase second part jumping The in tricky🔒

03:59the A C with D note Third part: grace low to a🔒

04:59little C-B-A the triplet A flair:🔒

05:37arpeggio through pattern control the part: Fourth🔒

06:25speed Building with metronome a slowly🔒

07:22closing working doubling The the phrase, and D on🔒

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00:07Hill, parts were the of and 1990s. in the by is written written third Chisholm, were fourth who The two in 1800s. The four-parted half a in parts first first Northeast

01:19dot-cut, is but not style, basically bit bit. enough going do that's play with even of little groups it notes just to little typeset I that to though even. writing of or

02:28feeling hear to great. the spot it, over notes, you of combination it second the first six, five the unnatural all jumps an scale. watch — bars The it where play and

04:59like part C-low flair Here's feel not the I part these third to changes — A there. combinations, add a one and C, not thing little flair put a a I I'm

06:25it maybe and a tempo. to slow. consistency, Once slowly — three, on the four playing is slow like slow difficult up and that start developed up — fingering beats minute fingering

07:39with also the You played note, E less the of they're some hand, that It less might coordinated tends D we note ring of doublings often. the other of involves extra doublings

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