Going Home from Local Hero

Today’s piece of music is the theme from the 1983 film Local Hero. Composed and performed by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, the soundtrack includes references to traditional Scottish tunes. I’d not really thought about this before, but I realise that like many Scottish melodies, Going Home is almost pentatonic: rather than playing it in the original D I could have played it in G flat and almost entirely on black notes!

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