Orange and Blue
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The Perfect First Strathspey Orange and Blue is a two-parted strathspey commonly played for Highland dancing, and a great choice as your first strathspey since it teaches the genre's core skill: exaggerating the dot-cut rhythm.
Hold the Dot for 99% of the Beat The whole strathspey idiom comes down to holding dotted eighth notes for nearly the entire beat so the following sixteenth notes can be almost as short as a gracenote.
Strong-Weak-Medium-Weak, With All Four Strong Pipers talk about strong-weak-medium-weak expression in strathspeys, but really all four beats should be strong — you're just adding extra emphasis to beats one and three.
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00:03Strathspey Two-Parted Introduction: A🔒
00:22The Strathspey Expression to Key🔒
00:35Even The Eighths Rule: Dot-Cut Never🔒
01:32Shortening Demonstration: Holding Cuts Dots,🔒
02:46Strathspey: Your The Challenge First Finger🔒
03:22Into Spots: Doublings Short Notes Trouble🔒
04:12From Short Notes Throws D Practicing🔒
05:07One: Gracenote and Bar The Strike G G Low🔒
05:58Rush the Birl Don't🔒
06:26Descending Closing The Sequence🔒
07:21rSntog-ekaW-iMmeud-akWe Eexsnosirp🔒
09:17Structure: in Tune the Part Second Repetition🔒
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