The Little Boy's Reel is one of my favourite D tunes of Erskine and is one I've played for the last five years or so. I first encountered it on Erskine's 1990 tape, one of his best and most energetic recordings. Have a listen to the original tune that I posted back in 2011:
Hear Erskine play the Little Boy's Reel
A reader of the blog from the Saguenay region of our province recently emailed me to ask if I would break the tune down for him so he could learn it. It's been a long time since I shared any teaching files on this blog so I thought I should fix that. Here's how I play the tune. I'm sure it's not note-for-note how Erskine played it. I play it slowly all the way through before breaking apart the low and high part in the next two files.
Learn the Little Boy's Reel
Enjoy and feel free to write me or leave a comment if you would like me to break down other Gaspé tunes you find on the blog.
Glenn, you are awsome! I love your slow, step by step teaching mp3 files! The Erskine tunes are great and I like to learn them. Thanks for making them alive and teaching them to others. Without you breaking up the tune, I would'nt have been able to learn the little boy's reel. Thanks again, I can't wait to learn some more stuff from you!
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