Hi Lore,
Thanks for a very enjoyable, first, Skype lesson last week (on Thursday, October 31st) from Scotland!, and looking forward to our lesson tomorrow at 7:20 pm GMT (which this week is 11:20am whereas last week it was 12:20pm, due to the differential time change between Scotland and the States :).
A wee, possible, beginning plan for tomorrow-
Awaiting "Carradale Bay" if you send it.
Still focusing on 'Miss Elspeth Campbell' per your comments last week and now learning from your video here - http://www.youtube.com/
Would like to develop the Strathspey and Reel I've been playing with this, as well, with you.
Miss Elspeth Campbell
Susan MacLeod
Mrs MacPherson of Inveran
With building a top quartet in mind in the long run (and possibly in a Google + group video Hangout, and in real, real time), and eventually with top pipers, it makes some sense to me to learn what top pipers are playing, perhaps in Invererary, Field Marshall, PCPB or Scottish Power, since they will be able to dredge out such MSRs some years hence, and I already know to some degree 2 of their (PCPB) recent MSRs.
Argyllshire Gathering
Cabar Feidh
MacAllisters Dirk
Tom MacAllister / Links of Forth
Dora MacLeod
John Morrison of Assynt House
All three of these MSRs plus other parts of a plan for this year (which I look forward to talking with about as well) are here - ... http://scott-macleod.
I'd like to learn to play the beauty I hear in your playing the beginning of the Piobaireachd "The Earl of Seaforth's Lament" in the very beginning here ... http://www.youtube.com/
... in both "The Company's Lament" and "MacKintoshes Banner" from the CoP Yellow Tutor, and the other 2 Piobaireachds there that follow. How to learn from both you and CoP's Angus MacLellan, and synthesize this, for more playing more beautifully, is a question I'm focusing on? I like the 'zone' you're in in these videos too. :) And learning the moving and beautiful 'The Desperate Battle' (of the Birds) with an amazing recording as resource is another priority, with some good recordings here at WUaS's Piobaireachd wiki page - http://worlduniversity.
... in both "The Company's Lament" and "MacKintoshes Banner" from the CoP Yellow Tutor, and the other 2 Piobaireachds there that follow. How to learn from both you and CoP's Angus MacLellan, and synthesize this, for more playing more beautifully, is a question I'm focusing on? I like the 'zone' you're in in these videos too. :) And learning the moving and beautiful 'The Desperate Battle' (of the Birds) with an amazing recording as resource is another priority, with some good recordings here at WUaS's Piobaireachd wiki page - http://worlduniversity.
For Xmas, I may get from my family a Scottish Smallpipe, and I'm leaning toward one in black wood from John Walsh in Nova Scotia, with both A and D chanters -http://www.johnwalshbagpipes.
... and I really like the almost Middle Eastern sound of these, as well as your improvisation. But I've added to WUaS's "Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes" wiki page here - http://worlduniversity.
... and I really like the almost Middle Eastern sound of these, as well as your improvisation. But I've added to WUaS's "Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes" wiki page here - http://worlduniversity.
See you online in Skype tomorrow! (May be looking for an internet connection for practice chanter while returning from a Meeting at San Francisco Friends' School which ends around 9:15 :).
Cheers,
Scott
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