All re learning, life-long learning ... :) ...
Hi Finlay (MacDonald, head of Piping Studies at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, Scotland),
Thanks so much for our good lesson today, and your helpful and knowledge-able listening and sharing ideas/instruction especially. Thanks too for your positive feedback about my playing of "My Home" (from the CoP Blue Tutor's setting). Appreciating in particular the learning conversation you make possible via these online lessons.
Re my bellows' blowing ( /'breathing'), I'll seek to attach the chest strap higher around my rib cage for solid foundation, and to tighten the arm strap around my arm with a hole punch - both for "no wiggle room" :) - and to play the scale-to-high-A exercise you suggested with a tuner many times, in order to learn to blow more steadily and consistently and re note expression.
Lesson 2:
Wed., August 28th possibly?
Goals (re items 2&3 here - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm)
To have completed recording on the A & D chanters the second half of the CoP Blue Tutor's tunes as "Tune Tutorials" (as free and open online resources).
(Here are the ebeginnings of these experimental SSP "Tune Tutorials" - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/cape-cod-national-seashore-video-tune.html & https://soundcloud.com/scottmacleod-com - for my own learning, and for a hypothetical Rees Parker - for GHB student of mine - for example).
Lessons 3 - 10 (per "Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument") -
focus on developing and recording for learning the tunes I think I'll play on my "Honey in the Bag" album in 2020 -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/gobies-scott-macleods-honey-in-bag-cd.html
Possibly 1-4 Piobaireachd lessons with Roddy MacLeod toward the end, as I begin to play and record for my own learning the 4 tunes on the Scottish Small Pipes for learners from the CoP "Gold" Tutor - and now with my new B flat mixolydian Walsh SSP chanter? (This chanter will allow me to learn too from all kinds of online GHB piping music:)
I think that in all of the CoP Tutors are embedded many guidelines for playing the GHB as well, which I'll seek to synthesize further, but am finding the focus on the Guidelines for "Practicing a Musical Instrument" very helpful additionally. (I think about all of the above in my blog too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping - FYI:).
Thanks again so much, Finlay!
Cheers, Scott
- http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm
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Hi David
(friend from Cuttyhunk island growing up there in the summers),
How are you? Just had my first 1/10 good piping lesson with Finlay MacDonald in Glasgow at the National Piping Centre (which 'merged' with the College of Piping in 2018). All toward my "Honey in the Bag" first Scottish small pipes' album in 2020. (Potentially with blockchain ledger, and possibly with Google Bach Doodle for writing harmonies with AI). I have three chanters now with SSP - in A mixolydian (flatted 7th), D myx, and newly B flat myx (which key the Great Highland Bagpipe is in). Are you playing your guitar at all these days?
Am curious how my lessons will add to these WUaS wiki bagpipe subjects too -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes
In the process of preparing for these lessons with Finlay, I've begun creating "Tune Tutorials" myself (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/cape-cod-national-seashore-video-tune.html & https://soundcloud.com/scottmacleod-com), on the Scottish Small Pipes, by playing and recording the tunes from the College of Piping's Green (vol. 1) and Blue (vol. 3) Tutor books. These recordings are free and open resources for anyone learning the SSP, and using the CoP Tutors to do so, and who are seeking to play along on their SSP A, D (or possibly B flat chanters). Also, with my new B flat chanter, I can newly play with GHB bagpipe practice chanters (also in B flat) allowing me to play in tune with a great range of GHB music (on Youtube, for ex.)
If you were to teach the blues on guitar (as a way of learning for yourself too), here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Guitar (since you said you were playing in a band last time we talked) and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Blues - do any Tutorials or similar approaches come to mind to experiment and explore with?
Brainstorming in the name of creativity :) Glad to connect here with Finlay MacDonald (as well as with Lorne MacDougall whom I've taken Skype lessons with before under the auspices of the CoP at the time actually, as well as Roddy MacDonald, the principal at the National Piping Centre, in some ways).
How are you and what are you up to?
Cheers, Scott
In the "Links' section, from the old World Univ & Sch wiki, but these pages will also work in the new wiki, beginning with - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Blues
World University and School Links
1960s: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/1960s
Blues: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Blues
Blues Piano: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Blues_Piano
Blues Singing: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Blues_Singing
Counterculture: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Counterculture
Folk rock music: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Folk_rock_music
Grateful Dead: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Grateful_Dead
Music: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Music
Musical Jamming: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Musical_Jamming
Rock and Roll: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Rock_and_Roll
World University Music School :
(..http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School )
> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School
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Hi Ma,
Appreciating your 'sending love' email yesterday, Ma, and writing-wise too. I think I email you regularly as a further expression of your great 'sending love' for so many decades now, and am sending you love as well, even while generating a kind of caring conversation re the 'use it or lose it' idea (posted on Carol Creedon's Reed College professor of psychology's door in the early 1980s, where Reed College psychology had / has a significant experimentalist, and animal behaviorist focus - so science-wise) of keeping our minds' active and engaged through language (both writing and talking) exchange (and re neural firing even:).
Re sending love and the above - 'In ongoing learning about eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology' - am also exploring this in NEW ways ... and by writing about this ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/aconitum-blue-rocket-sending-love.htm ...
Guidelines for practicing a musical instrument
http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm
Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument
http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm
Good 1st lesson this morning with Finlay in Glasgow. Will work on my bellows' arm blowing for steadiness, as well as develop goals for the next 9 lessons - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm items #2 & #3 (and toward my "Honey in the Bag" album in 2020) - the next one being about 3 weeks from now. Nice to have met him, and to have connected.
Do you listen to this Boston Baroque station very much, Ma - http://www.bostonbaroque.org/boston-baroque-radio. It's good. Appreciating too newly Baroque music, and very well played as well as its enormous variety ... interesting journey. Excellent Boston music station too :)
And again, more about 'sending love' and all of this in quite innovative ways here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/aconitum-blue-rocket-sending-love.html - and writing-wise esp. :)
Sending love, Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/care
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping -
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