In this second lesson for Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar, Tony McManus explores all the dance rhythms of Scottish music, with its pipe-marches, strathspeys, single and double jigs, slip jiogs and reels. McManus has beennotablysuccesfull in translating the complex music of the highland bagpipes to the guitar and, to maintain the integrity of the music, he introduces three unusual tunings: CGCGCD, CGDGCD and DAAEAE.

The idea and playing of setsispresented, as well as further exploration of ornamenta...