Birds battling in air: {On toward great piping Stuart Liddell / Gordon Duncan bliss shivers :}, Thunderstruck, Great Highland Bagpipe keys of A flat and B flat major, and prizes, MuseScore - http://musescore.org/ - composing software with bagpipe register, 'In beginning learning "The Desperate Battle" ('An Cath Gailbeach') in Book 7 of Comunn na Piobaireachd (The Piobaireach Society, 1938) from you on Thursday (if we do), will a recording (which I find helpful especially for the nonmensurality of Piobaireachd, landlocked from the cultural musical waters in the air of Piobaireachd land, as I am) be part of the process?'

{On toward Stuart Liddell / Gordon Duncan great piping bliss shivers :}

Stuart Liddell - Thunderstruck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJK77WQdHrg

Thunderstruck-Gordon Duncan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EwDlUHoDFo

(Ian and Gordon Duncan Recital 1994 - 15

"And finally, to top it all: Gordon plays three reels, including his own composition, Andy Renwick's Ferret, with several variations you may not have heard before"as well as "Thunderstruck." :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6apsC8o3f6k)


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Hi Ian,

Harvested 5 sheets of helpful comments which I'll share soonish - great for the feedback - and glad to be gaining competition experience in the self-learming of piping (with your tutelage, of course:), as well as to have taken 2 firsts and 1 third, ... enjoying Scottish-informed culture (at these Games), especially the bliss and bliss-potential in the piping, the music (heard Alasdair Fraser on fiddle this morning:) as well as the dancing ... on to Stuart Liddell/Gordon Duncan-informed piping bliss-shivers' generation ... 'MacKintosh's Banner' (CoP Yellow Tutor, Vol. 4), and 'The Desperate Battle' for Piobaireachds this autumn, but would love some PCPB 2-informed, upcoming MSRs and HJs and Medley (and for next year's solo competitions ... may also compete at Dixon Games in late September for more experience. May explore too playing piping harmonies from the book 'Seconds from the Edge' with a young lass who also dances RSCDS among others. Amazing Grace with seconds for R's first gig in November :)

Lesson this Thursday?

Cheers
Scott



Hi Scott,
You are getting in the mood for entertaining and competing,Excellent.See you Thursday.
Cheers Ian

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Great Highland Bagpipe keys of A flat and B flat major, and prizes

Just played out a Piobaireachd on the piano here in the keys of A major (e.g. practice chanter sometimes, - my Naill practice chanter is, but I can also blow it sharper) and in B flat major (pipe chanter but sometimes even sharper :) ... and the pipe chanter's Cs and Fs are even sharper and at their own frequency in piping too (is all this correct?) ... This information about keys and pitch will be helpful for MuseScore - http://musescore.org/ - composing software with bagpipe register, for example ... Took 2 firsts (for Piobaireachd and March) and a third (for Slow Air) and won the Individual Piping Winston Churchhill Memorial plaque (3 pipers in our category won this among many competitors) ... not bad having last competed around 1975 ... one learns a lot at Scottish Games and they're stimulating me to make lots of new musical connections (per Ma's and Marsalis'  Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument ... 

http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm ... 

and vis-a-vis 

Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument ... 

http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm :) ...

In beginning learning "The Desperate Battle" ('An Cath Gailbeach') in Book 7 of Comunn na Piobaireachd (The Piobaireach Society, 1938) from you on Thursday (if we do), will a recording (which I find helpful especially for the nonmensurality of Piobaireachd, landlocked from the cultural musical waters in the air of Piobaireachd land, as I am) be part of the process?

Cheers,
Scott

And here's a picture of the 

"Caledonian Society of San Francisco - Individual Piping: Winston Churchill Memorial" plaque 

I just won ... 

on the back of which I wrote (for the record, since Scots can be archive-oriented): 

Scott Gordon Kenneth Macleod III

2013 Scottish Games at Pleasanton, California

sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

I played:

"The Company's Lament" - Urlar, Var. 1

"Miss Elspeth Campbell"

for the March

"The Mermaid's Song"

for my Slow Air

2 September 2013

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