While this recording may be of interest to fiddlers wishing to learn the tunes, it is primarily for practising step-dancing.  It is intended to provide music in the relevant style at a pace suitable for learning/practising steps.  While it is not within the tradition to devise routines, learners of step-dancing usually find that by having a sequence of steps it makes memory of them easier.  The music has been chosen in such a way as to help you remember step routines with the Slow Strathspeys and Reels later repeated when played a Strathspey and Reel Sets at tempo.  You may find that by associating certain steps with particular tunes that it will be easier to remember them.

While practising new steps, it is common to repeat them 8 times.  Once you are comfortable with a series of steps, it is enough to repeat a step only 4 times.  The Strathspeys are 16 bars long.  Where steps which are one bar in length are repeated 8 times, only 2 steps are required to dance a Strathspey.  The Reels are 32 bars long.  Where steps which are one bar in length are repeated 8 times, 4 steps are required to complete a Reel.

It is indicated alongside the track titles the number of times each tune is played.  Please note however that "Calum Breugach" is played twice, since it is a four-part Strathspey making it twice as long as all the others.  Also note that "Jenny Dang the Weaver" is only half as long as the other Reels.  I hope all that doesn't confuse - these two tunes were too good to leave out!