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tune
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Y Dydd (The
Day)
This is a lovely traditional Welsh harp tune with a
wide range of notes, sweeping up to a high-note climax in
part B. Note the structure of the tune is AABB.
A small harp tuned in C will not accommodate
the range of notes in the tune without jumping an octave or
playing most of the tune right down the bottom of the range,
so a better solution is to re-tune the harp to G. This
requires the F notes to be raised a semitone to F# . You can
check the tuning by playing a D chord/arpeggio - D,F#,A,D
etc. and check back and fore with a G chord. The highest
note in the tune is then B''.
The fingering is shown below and invloves a shift in
the accompaniment chords from the usual C starting
point to G.
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Player's guide
This is a fairly slow tune but includes several interesting
challenges for fingering because it has quite a wide range of notes.
It includes successive plucking of a single note witih different
fingers, crossovers and stretches over five notes.
Part A: 3 | G 1 3 2 1 | D 1 3 2 1 | G 1 3 1 2 | run 1,2,1,2,3 3 |
| G 1 3 2 1 | Am 1 3 2 1 | G 1 3 2 1 | G 2 |
Part B: 1 | D 1 2 3 1 | G 1 2 3 1 | D 1 2 3 1 | G 1,3,2,1, 3 2 |
| run 1 2 3 1 | 2 3 1 2 | 3 2,1, 1 2| 3 ||