Sunday, July 5, 2020

Red-footed booby: Scottish Small Piping - bagpiping * * create Lego Mindstorms' robots as Scottish drummers playing such rhythms - almost as prompts for one's own music-making * * Playing with quasi-metronomes aka Scottish drumming can lead to new 'flow' experiences (and here's one definition - http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm) * * * How best to #DanceScottishAtHome #ScottishCountryDancing #DanceScottish #ScottishCountryDance (re #Covid19)? Let's wiki grow this conversation here: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing & w live #ScottishSmallPiping



Scottish Small Piping - bagpiping * * create Lego Mindstorms' robots as Scottish drummers playing such rhythms - almost as prompts for one's own music-making * * Playing with quasi-metronomes aka Scottish drumming can lead to new 'flow' experiences (and here's one definition - http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm).



Hi Taylor, 

In lieu of a metronome, I just looked for and found a Scottish drumming track for 4/4 marches: 

2/4 March time drum beatings


Scottish Drumming Music - 4/4 March Massed Band EUSPBA for pipe band drummers


then this popped up: 
Scottish Snare Drumming Music - 6/8 March Massed Band EUSPBA for Pipe Band Drummers
https://youtu.be/t0fIV1y6cHY


&
Pipe Band Drumming : 6/8 Marches


Haven't tried these, but could be inspiring and helpful in new ways in playing  ... will keep my eyes open for strathspey and reel drumming music :)

See you tomorrow evening, 

Scott
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- Scott MacLeod



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Hi Taylor,

Perhaps we can play around a bit experimentally with these new approaches to learning with 'quasi-metronomes.' These (Scottish drumming rhythms) are complex, and interesting, and I found it helpful first just to sing the main note from a 2/4 March or a 6/8 March, beat my left and right feet as if marching too, and also tap my hand to get the pulse (and not playing a tune with on the Scottish Small Pipes).

Brainstorming-wise, and newly, it might be fun to create Lego Mindstorms' robots as Scottish drummers playing such rhythms - almost as prompts for one's own music-making - and then, out of the box, even to code such hypothetically Mindstorms' robots to move from this drumming into Grateful Dead drumming (as prompts too), Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman, workable with piping music. (I'm only making occasional robots with the simpler Lego Robotics' kit We Do 2.0, so this thinking is currently in the envisioning phase :). 

Haven't yet been able to find strathspey and reel 'metronomic' Scottish drumming yet, and re this evening's

MSR:  :) 
PM Willie Gray
Dorrator Bridge 
Devil in the Kitchen

Musical cheers, 
Scott



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- Scott MacLeod





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Good morning Taylor, 

Would you like to explore playing this "Green Hills Of Tyrol" tune from the Green Tutor (with your practice chanter, since someone is playing with him on practice chanter, and your SSP chanter is in A) with quasi-metronome, Gordon Bell? :)

Green Hills Of Tyrol- Gordon Bell
https://youtu.be/nRggJNYXOZA

Playing with quasi-metronomes aka Scottish drumming can lead to new 'flow' experiences (and here's one definition - http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm).

(I don't know if you or April might like to learn to code with the drag and drop visual Scratch programming language out of MIT Media Lab / Harvard HGSE beginning 7/6 - 
https://twitter.com/ScratchEdTeam/status/1278643603678642177?s=20 - with a new coding prompt each day, but I thought I'd let you know about this. I can see 'new' metronome beats, and particularly Scottish drumming rhythms as quasi-metronomes - as being kinds of 'prompts' to riff or experiment with expressively even). Am exploring this idea of musical prompts re quasi-metronomes. 

For upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album, I experimentally could even put on headphones when playing 2 sets of 2 6/8s with 

Pipe Band Drumming : 6/8 Marches

"One-ing" while playing Scottish small pipes with the 'complexity' of Scottish drumming rhythms and for expressive-ness is an art itself. ... interesting learning curve (and am thinking of Stuart Liddell's piping as inspiration in these regards). 

I'm not sure if this is great drummer Stephen McWhirter at around the 1:20 or the 2 minute mark - 

The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013

https://youtu.be/wbikiMAjhDM


but here they are together 'one-ing' away :) -
Stuart Liddell & Steven McWhirter: Inveraray duo in Pipes+Drums Recital

Cheers, 
Scott



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- Scott MacLeod




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Taylor, 

There's a lot of rock and roll in this Gordon Duncan in video playing his "Thunderstruck" - and with both the tune (riffing with AC / DC) and what follows here, he's doing something so new and creative in bagpiping, and at an amazing tempo ... rock start on bagpipe-guitar in a kilt and Prince Charles doublet in Scotland at the Piping Centre in Glasgow ... what is going on here? Go figure :)

Gordon Duncan - Thunderstruck + riffing

https://youtu.be/Phy-_ko0zWU

And so many of his tunes are as creative (I'll call this:). 



Cheers, Scott







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Getting Unstuck: 10 Days of Scratch - is what the Scratch prompts are upcoming daily about, in playing around with this new easy coding language. 

There's a 'coming unglued' aspect to Rock & Roll that can be a fascinating direction to head in, and perhaps Gordon Duncan does this here

Gordon Duncan - Thunderstruck + riffing
Exploring COMING UNGLUED is something hippies seemed to gravitate toward - amusingly :) (These days, Ali Hutton's piping is deeply inspired by Gordon Duncan's :)

Cheers, 
Scott



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- Scott MacLeod




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Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton as contemporary Scottish hippie bagpipers flying with Gordon Duncan? :) Kinda ...

Check it out:
Thunderstruck Bagpipe Music Ross Ainslie In Dundee Scotland

https://youtu.be/rcFpN1OBPsk
(some further piping-riffing by Ali Hutton in 2nd half here )


Ross and Ali - Pressed for Time

https://youtu.be/hWm43nfo-9s

Struck by Thunder?

Nine note wonder, :)
Scott


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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com






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Taylor Warren
Sat, Jul 4, 7:24 PM
to me

It's interesting how the guitar in that second link almost mimics the beat of the highland drums.

Once I checked myself and put my prejudice against new agey music aside, the low whistle counterpart was actually pretty neat too. I wouldn't think such a quiet mellow instrument would pair well with the phiob mhor. Great dotted notes and birls on the part of the piper there too.

I played around a bit with that recording of Green Hills. Getting an ear for highland drumming might take some practice; the syncopated beats can make one a bit unsure if they're keeping time correctly.

There's gotta be a market out there for this type of irregular metronome. I'm not much of a coder but I'll check that link out at some point.

Thanks for sending these my way.




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Taylor, 

Appreciating your language and insights for some of these videos and quasi metronomes. It took me about 3 goes to find, and play with, the beat with the last 6/8 march video played by drum corp 
from Scotland. (They drum faster than I usually play lovely swinging 6/8 marches - which faster tempo, played well, I think would add to a kind of elation for the listener; explore downloading BPM Tap, or BPM Counter etc., and in addition to 'marching' with your left and right feet, singing the pulse notes in each bar, try tapping your finger/hand and with one of these Apps and see what the bpm of Green Hills of Tyrol is, and compare with Bruce Wright's GHB tempos for 3/4 marches - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html). A kind of metronomic beat is implicit in all these Scottish drum videos (re the regular tick idea of a metronome). Appreciating, too, Ali's whistle (not a sound I always gravitate toward) as alto voice, and touching on both ceol beag (Gordon Duncan tune played by Ross) and ceol mor (Ali Hutton playing part of an urlar, or ground, from a piobaireachd) too. 

Here's some innovative not quasi-metronomic Scottish(-Australian too) drumming to riff with: 
Scottish Drumming - Tyler Fry and James Laughlin playing a pipe band drum solo - improvisation!

But with the syncopation, and the other Scottish drumming rhythmic aspects, of Gordon Bell's Green Hills of Tyrol, can one further 'one' with the dot-cuts, or tachums (a word from canntaireachd), between the notes (and with 16th notes, and 32nd notes +) ? ... Am exploring ~ and Stuart Liddell is an inspiration, but am also seeking to come unglued, and innovate anew, finding my own sound, with Gordon Duncan as inspiration. 

Thee syncopated Scottish drummers, quasi-metronomes all, all seem to be marketing themselves quite well on the web! ~ :) 

https://stevenmcwhirter.com/ (I haven't checked out the practicing books here eg "Practice strategies that cause musical improvement" but they look interesting)
Tyler Fry
James Laughlin

Appreciating your rhythm guitar emails - re creative idea-sharing in learning Scottish small pipes! 

Might this online singing opportunity interest you or April - https://www.co-vo.com/original - on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-6:30. Julia Nielsen went to Stanford for her BA in Music, of which I am appreciative (I heard about this from a UU choir email list, having sung in the UUCPA 2-3 years ago). Will send you the email. 

Musical cheers, 
Scott
Scottish Drumming wiki subject at WUaS - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Drumming - and WUaS could eventually add all these drumming videos and related. 

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- Scott MacLeod






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https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1279511859083669504?s=20



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Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton as contemporary Scottish hippie bagpipers flying with Gordon Duncan? :)

Check it out:
Thunderstruck Bagpipe Music Ross Ainslie In Dundee Scotland

https://youtu.be/rcFpN1OBPsk



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https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1279861785265242113






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