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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 ||