Articles and Lessons

This is an arrangment of two traditional Scottish Tunes—Bottom of the Punch Bowl and My Nanie O (or When Bidden to the Wake) merged into one.   The work is also found in the Shearer Method Book III: Learning the Fingerboard, arranged as a duet and has been arranged in...

Kingsfold is an Irish tune, dating as far back as the Middle Ages.  In structure, the melody resembles other popular Irish tunes such as Star of the County Down.  After having heard the tune in Kingsfold, Sussex, England, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)...

The p,i,m,a,m,i arpeggio works most efficiently when organized as two sympathetic motions: i,m,a followed by m-i, with an opposed a,m in between.  This opposed movement is one of the more challenging aspects of the arpeggio and should be first isolated in a p,i,m,a,...