The Mist-Covered Mountains of Home
John Cameron 1856
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This is a lower-intermediate level fingerstyle guitar arrangement of the Scottish folk song "The Mist-Covered Mountains of Home", or "Chì Mi Na Mòrbheanna" to give it its original Gaelic name.
Playing Tips for Learners
Repeats
There are two sections (A & B) which are played straight through on the score (and audio demo below) with no repeats. For a real performance of the song, however, it needs repeats.
Section A ends on the second beat of bar 16, so you can repeat from the start at that point. Section B starts with the two 8th notes on the last beat of bar 16 and continues until the last bar. That can also be repeated. Finally, you should repeat section A again and end on bar 16. The section playing order, if you follow that plan, would be A A B B A.
Fingering
The score doesn't have any fingering info as, being chord-based, it's pretty straightforward. If you hold the most common 'nut-position' chord shapes while playing this arrangement, your fretting-hand fingers will be well-placed to play the required melody notes and inner harmony notes while your thumb will be free to play the bass notes.
The D chord in bars 10 (and 26) is an exception (as the tab makes clear). It should be played similar to the familiar nut position C shape. Just slide up from the C shape. This creates an intentionally dissonant open G string on the D chord. Make the most of that clash between the G and the F# chord tone on string 4 fret 4.
In bar 11, the semitone rise from F# to G is shown as a slur (hammer-on) but it's probably more effective as a slide with your 4th finger on fret 2 sliding up to the G on fret 3.
Tied Melody Notes
Some melody notes are tied. For example, the last melody note of bar 7 is tied to the first note of bar 8. This causes it to be played half a beat early, which gives the song a lilting effect often used by singers. If you prefer, you can choose to ignore the tie and just play it straight, i.e. bring the melody note in on the first beat of bar 8 and not on the last half beat of bar 7.
LISTEN to The Mist Covered Mountains of Home
Click PLAY in the video player below to hear a software-generated 'MIDI to audio' rendition of the score along with score displayed line by line. Keep in mind that it's a machine-generated version and that some effects such as hammer-ons and slides that are in the score can't be reproduced well in the audio.
Playing Tips for Learners
Repeats
There are two sections (A & B) which are played straight through on the score (and audio demo below) with no repeats. For a real performance of the song, however, it needs repeats.
Section A ends on the second beat of bar 16, so you can repeat from the start at that point. Section B starts with the two 8th notes on the last beat of bar 16 and continues until the last bar. That can also be repeated. Finally, you should repeat section A again and end on bar 16. The section playing order, if you follow that plan, would be A A B B A.
Fingering
The score doesn't have any fingering info as, being chord-based, it's pretty straightforward. If you hold the most common 'nut-position' chord shapes while playing this arrangement, your fretting-hand fingers will be well-placed to play the required melody notes and inner harmony notes while your thumb will be free to play the bass notes.
The D chord in bars 10 (and 26) is an exception (as the tab makes clear). It should be played similar to the familiar nut position C shape. Just slide up from the C shape. This creates an intentionally dissonant open G string on the D chord. Make the most of that clash between the G and the F# chord tone on string 4 fret 4.
In bar 11, the semitone rise from F# to G is shown as a slur (hammer-on) but it's probably more effective as a slide with your 4th finger on fret 2 sliding up to the G on fret 3.
Tied Melody Notes
Some melody notes are tied. For example, the last melody note of bar 7 is tied to the first note of bar 8. This causes it to be played half a beat early, which gives the song a lilting effect often used by singers. If you prefer, you can choose to ignore the tie and just play it straight, i.e. bring the melody note in on the first beat of bar 8 and not on the last half beat of bar 7.
LISTEN to The Mist Covered Mountains of Home
Click PLAY in the video player below to hear a software-generated 'MIDI to audio' rendition of the score along with score displayed line by line. Keep in mind that it's a machine-generated version and that some effects such as hammer-ons and slides that are in the score can't be reproduced well in the audio.