Dear Angela & Victor (Yoginis) ~
Yoga Concert: Metamorphosis - Yoga Lene in Sweden with musicians from Gothenburg Symphony
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Angela, Victor, Patricia, Andrew, Satya, Linda, Yogina Teachers, All,
MMmmm. .. appreciating the creativity here in teaching Yoga meditation too, with music -and on the Web. Performativity again in Yoga teaching too (or meditation indirectly re piper Stuart Liddell, A&V, All?), and while Yoga Lene here is doing something remarkable, when she first starts teaching Yoga, her face seems a little tensed, pained or similar? (Swedish unique thinking, content exceptionalism too - with Yoga also? - and all in English! ~Victor! :) ... all in a time of global quarantining!
Yoga Concert: Metamorphosis - Yoga Lene in Sweden with musicians from Gothenburg Symphony
'Welcome to a yoga pass with live music played by musicians from Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Lene Skomedal, Yoga Lene.'
https://www.gso.se/en/gsoplay/video/yogaconcert/
Yoga Lene seems to be teaching about and to classical western music too! Where is the raga here? :)
Appreciating the global metaphors she engages Swedish-wise in Yoga:)
Warm regards, Scotty
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Ma, Ann, Alden, Ed, Tym,
What do you think of this classical music (with Yoga!), Ma - from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Sweden?
MMmmm. .. appreciating the creativity here in teaching Yoga meditation, with music -and on the Web. Performativity again in Yoga teaching too (or meditation indirectly re piper Stuart Liddell, Angela & Victor, All?), and while Yoga Lene here is doing something remarkable, when she first starts teaching Yoga, her face seems a little tensed, pained or similar? (Swedish unique thinking, content exceptionalism too - with Yoga also? - and all in English! ~ re Yogi Victor van Kooten! :) ... all in a time of global quarantine!
Yoga Concert: Metamorphosis - Yoga Lene in Sweden with musicians from Gothenburg Symphony
'Welcome to a yoga pass with live music played by musicians from Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Lene Skomedal, Yoga Lene.'
Yoga Concert Metamorphosis with Yoga Lene
Yoga Concert Metamorphosis with Yoga Lene
Yoga Lene seems to be teaching about and to classical western music too! Where is the raga here? :)
Appreciating the global metaphors she engages Swedish-wise in Yoga:)
Appreciating especially how she brings this music together with Yoga as well! Are Yoga or music transformed themselves? I think Angela & Victor transform Yoga remarkably (and music is always transforming itself ... with no rock & roll Yoga here from Gothenburg for example! :)) But this "Yoga Concert: Metamorphosis with Yoga Lene" is pretty great! Is this a Swedish Yoga meditation? Seems to be heading that way, cosmopolitan-wise :)
Warm regards, Scotty
And here's the amazing bagpiper Stuart Liddell in a kind of meditation at the Glen Fiddich too - https://vimeo.com/371359345 (https://scott-macleod.
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new hippie shirt ... wore it on a walk in Canyon
pretty afternoon too
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Hi Ma,
Not yet afternoon here ... is it pretty by you? How are you?
Got a beautiful hippie psychedelic shirt at Walmart Friday evening with lots of pinks, yellows, blues and oranges, - made in Vietnam - and which is XXL ... wasn't sure even if, or when, I'd wear it. And then low and behold, when I went for a walk yesterday evening, I put it on over a T-shirt, not yet washed ... and it fit well, and was kinda nice to boot. (No concerns either about sociality - and I'm somehow interested in, engaged with this aesthetic, taste-wise too, - even as my hair is getting a little longer in this quarantine time). I think the price listed at the store was something like $13.97, but the automatic check out register at WM sold it to me for $7 - what a good deal. Still unsure at the store when and how I'd wear it (and how I'd wash it too, since it was made in another country, and didn't have washing instructions - but I bought it also since it might help people in Vietnam too financially). And re norms, too, I was wondering if I'd wear it, but felt free to do so - socioculturally - in my solitary walk, in solitary Canyon (which has its 'plusses') to wear this shirt yesterday, and liked it. ... nice walk too on the far side of the Monroes overlooking Moraga! (Too much thinking here, Ma? :)
It's been a piping morning here (listening-wise), with lots of Stuart Liddell, and as I get further along learning about my new smartphone - with much better voice-integration than previous phone - I spoke to Google Assistant (which seemed to pop up at a good time) last night to set my alarm for 7:30 this morning - and re being productive Google Assistant said too. ... And so I didn't turn off the alarm in the other room this morning by voice, but I may begin using Google Assistant and this tinkling alarm to set playing times for bagpiping throughout the course of the day ... Now how could I also make this process of practicing more social, I wonder? :)
Love, Scott
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Hi Ma,
Not yet afternoon here ... is it pretty by you? How are you?
Got a beautiful hippie psychedelic shirt at Walmart Friday evening with lots of pinks, yellows, blues and oranges, - made in Vietnam - and which is XXL ... wasn't sure even if, or when, I'd wear it. And then low and behold, when I went for a walk yesterday evening, I put it on over a T-shirt, not yet washed ... and it fit well, and was kinda nice to boot. (No concerns either about sociality - and I'm somehow interested in, engaged with this aesthetic, taste-wise too, - even as my hair is getting a little longer in this quarantine time). I think the price listed at the store was something like $13.97, but the automatic check out register at WM sold it to me for $7 - what a good deal. Still unsure at the store when and how I'd wear it (and how I'd wash it too, since it was made in another country, and didn't have washing instructions - but I bought it also since it might help people in Vietnam too financially). And re norms, too, I was wondering if I'd wear it, but felt free to do so - socioculturally - in my solitary walk, in solitary Canyon (which has its 'plusses') to wear this shirt yesterday, and liked it. ... nice walk too on the far side of the Monroes overlooking Moraga! (Too much thinking here, Ma? :)
It's been a piping morning here (listening-wise), with lots of Stuart Liddell, and as I get further along learning about my new smartphone - with much better voice-integration than previous phone - I spoke to Google Assistant (which seemed to pop up at a good time) last night to set my alarm for 7:30 this morning - and re being productive Google Assistant said too. ... And so I didn't turn off the alarm in the other room this morning by voice, but I may begin using Google Assistant and this tinkling alarm to set playing times for bagpiping throughout the course of the day ... Now how could I also make this process of practicing more social, I wonder? :)
Love, Scott
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Good lesson, Taylor!
Re The Londonderry Horn Pipe
check out
The Sailor's Hornpipe Scottish Highland Dancing
for a well played hornpipe example - and for the great dancing.
Congratulations on your 3rd wedding anniversary. It sounds like a great trip too!
More about jig and hornpipe sheet music, and writing out A & D SSP chanter music on sheet music for learning / making connections muscially in a different way, soon-ish.
Cheers,
Scott
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Thanks, Taylor,
Musing-wise, not only is Stuart LIddell in a kind of meditation -
https://vimeo.com/371359345
Musical regards,
Scott
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Taylor,
Would you like to explore "The Mason's Apron," as hornpipe, parts 1&2, for next week (instead of the tunes I sent you)? Since it's next in my version of the CoP Blue Tutor - as a hornpipe esp - it could be great for building steadily, and in a pedagogically focused way, Scottish thinking-wise too.
As an additional exploration creativity-wise, consider exploring playing it from this reel setting -
"The Mason's Apron" reel:
- and regarding our exploring the 4 different main dance forms of piping music besides marches ... What is the difference between a hornpipe and a reel per this?
And for inspiration (and further explorations), here Stuart plays it as a jig too:
The Mason's Apron at about 5:25
Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 5 of 8
Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 5 of 8
So this, and pts 3 & 4 of the Scots' Guards' tunes we're playing?
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Another tremendous version of Mason's Apron:
Stuart Liddell (solo) - The Blue Cloud, Mason's Apron
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New GHB dance-form alert - waltzes!
Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 8 of 8
https://youtu.be/MBpxL6n0ae4
At about 2:08, Stuart begins playing waltzes! (and this is all an old-favorites' set of his!) ... and he begins with a jig - a great jig-template-for-the-mind - Troy's Wedding, and then PLAYS this as a Waltz ... it's cool ... and relevant to what we'll explore on thursday, Can you ;play 'The Mason's Apron" as a Jig and a Hornpipe .. possibly using the 'reel' setting of sheet music?
Musical cheers, Scott
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TAYLOR,
I think one of the Hornpipe aspects regarding a kind of "SLIPPAGE" in "The Mason's Apron" in the CoP Blue Tutor Vol 3 version is the run of three notes at the end of bar 4 (I think) and elsewhere .. and holding the last note longer ... slipping on a moving ship too - and re Sailor's Hornpipe? :))
Scott
The Sailor's Hornpipe Scottish Highland Dancing
Lots of 'slippage' here too ... Have highland dancers and pipers built in the experience of living - and dancing even - on a moving ship, which has probably been a very commonly shared experience for Celtic Knot folks over the past 3 centuries - into Hornpipes? :)
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Taylor,
https://youtu.be/xVAVE5i_10Q
Stuart Liddell again with 2 other Glen Fiddich winners, up in Mt. Vernon Washington (in a Celtic center hall BUILT for piping apparently!)
Valley of the Deer Revue: The Best of Highland Piping
https://youtu.be/xVAVE5i_10Q
Troy's Wedding (jig) at the close beginning after 1:44:55
While this is a favorite tune of Stuart's (I don't gravitate toward it too actively personally ... but I do to Stuart's piping ... do you like Troy's Wedding as tune 'lyrically' ?:)
Scottish Gaelic lesson herein too (and mention of Washington State Alcohol and Cannabis Board re questions of the law too!:)
Musical cheers,
Scott
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By the way, two lessons ago, I think my tenor drone, when playing the D chanter, was out of tune :) Did you hear this? - and re listening to tuning and taking time, too, to tune - even in live piping situations ...
Cheers,
Scott
Just getting into the canny, too, innovative, and risk-taking (Scots' wise), Fred Morrison here -
https://youtu.be/eQAl7kQpikY (Fred Morrison - Live from The Celtic Center) ... and thanks too to Skye Richendrfer's intro to this and "The Valley of the Deer" performance introducing Stuart Liddell and the other 2 Glen Fiddich winners ...
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re bagpiper Fred Morrison
Interesting to read this too -
What gear do you use?
Smallpipes in A by Gordon Mooney; Smallpipes in D by EJ Jones and Gordon Mooney; Reelpipes by Fred Morrison/McCallum; MacDougall of Aberfeldy Great Highland Pipe; Low D Whistle by Goldie. Love Hornpipes - many favs.
- https://fandalism.com/skyer -
Smallpipes in A by Gordon Mooney; Smallpipes in D by EJ Jones and Gordon Mooney; Reelpipes by Fred Morrison/McCallum; MacDougall of Aberfeldy Great Highland Pipe; Low D Whistle by Goldie. Love Hornpipes - many favs.
- https://fandalism.com/skyer -
and his favorite album at bottom :)
Scott
- https://scott-macleod.
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And wow, someone added to Bishopton, Scotland, a video of a dog chasing a ball into the water - to Google Street View
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Taylor,
Piping The Way - Stuart Liddell West Highland Way Bagpipe Film
https://youtu.be/p1GR8qQulx4
Have you seen this? What do you think and re Stuart's "Ascension of Inverarary ... " ? Appreciating Stuart's seeing the notes he's playing in his mind first (and differently than all other greatest pipers), re too Yo Yo Ma - http://scottmacleod.com/
Cheers,
Scott
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Aug 2, 2020, 2:35 PM (2 days ago)
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The feed is a bit distorted during the Skype call so I might have missed the drone being slightly out of tune (plus I tend to listen more to the chanter). I'll keep an ear out for that in the future!
Even the top experts take time to tune, definitely. Even in the middle of performances. Here's an otherwise excellent performance of the reel Sandy Boys with Tim Cummings on the Border Pipes and Jerry O'Sullivan on Uillean pipes where one of Jerry's drones falls right off the tuning pin around the 2:40 mark.
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Cool, thanks - and especially for the Scottish small pipes duet on Youtube video!
Andy May's Northumbrian smallpipes' duets have inspired me especially, re non-SSP duets, but I can't think of too many inspiring SSP duets
Andy May Trio - Andy May & Ian Stephenson Northumbrian Pipes Duet
https://youtu.be/dy_EBuZ9FW8
as I listen to this GHB solo :)) at the 37:00 minute mark
Full Recital - Stuart Liddell 1 Hour! - 2010
https://youtu.be/xzS509pXiqw
and this Andy May in particular (and after he had just cut his very long hair!) -
Newcastle Piping Festival - Andy Watchorn & Andy May
https://youtu.be/ny7ZWDqNBTE
https://youtu.be/dy_EBuZ9FW8
as I listen to this GHB solo :)) at the 37:00 minute mark
Full Recital - Stuart Liddell 1 Hour! - 2010
https://youtu.be/xzS509pXiqw
and this Andy May in particular (and after he had just cut his very long hair!) -
Newcastle Piping Festival - Andy Watchorn & Andy May
https://youtu.be/ny7ZWDqNBTE
Will check it out - thanks!
Cheers, Scott
Andy May is from Newcastle, just south of Scotland - and in the Borders' country I think too (re a music I'm appreciative of, and like, inspiration-wise too) ...
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Aug 2, 2020, 3:00 PM (2 days ago)
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Inspiring, this border pipes and uilleann pipes' duet - https://youtu.be/NsgndkJ9p20 ! Thanks, Taylor! I listened to it twice too.
Am seeking further clarity too about the difference between border pipes and 'reel pipes' - with probably some/much variations and hybridizations within any given form (whereas the GHB has been fairly standardized these days)!
Scott
Thanks!
Scottish small pipes' theory
Scottish small pipes' theory
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Scott MacLeod
Sun, Aug 2, 1:42 PM (2 days ago)
to Taylor, Scott
Taylor,
Another great! video which I just stumbled upon (re behind the scenes' view, and Scottish piping thinking / theorizing):
Behind the scenes at the Glenfiddich (2015)
https://youtu.be/qDJz4ngesT4
At 3:30 Jack Lee here talks about having recorded all the Piobaireachs from all Vols 1-15. And I'm recalling how he's basically had the tape recorded going whenever he plays (which I sent you too) ... so am seeking here to get into this again (potentially EVERY time) ... and because with this one can get direct feedback about one's own playing and theorize how to play in new ways! :)
Another sheet music theory item re A & D chanters - and quirk too perhaps Scottish small pipes, (and possibly Great Highland Pipes???): on the Scottish small pipes - and I was just playing at the piano keyboard with SSP - the SSP low A sounds an octave below than what is written on sheet music! But in your explorations using sheet music, I encourage you at first to write out the 2 SSP chanter scales like the piping sheet music in the CoP Tutors.
However, re the CoP Tutors, I also encourage you - newly - for the A chanter to write in 2 sharps into the Key Signature on C & F on every line - which refers to A mixolydian (and is actually signifying the key of D:) . Check out some other GHB sheet music online to see this notation in the staves.
We'll get to the D (and B flat) chanters' key signatures later (unless you want to explore this on your own too). (Might you eventually get a B flat SSP Walsh chanter?)
Cheers, Scott
PS
From musicalmacflower@gmail.com I'll send you the sheet music for Scotsaire Hornpipe which has the sharps written in ... for the A chanter!
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Sun, Aug 2, 1:48 PM (2 days ago)
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Hi Taylor,
ScotsAire Hornpipe with the sharps written in -
- re sheet music for the SSP A chanter.
Cheers, Scott
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Tu, August 4, 2020
Hi Taylor,
FYI, and regarding writing out the 9 note scale for the A & D chanters on sheet music for the SSP, I think the GHB practice chanter is 'pitched' an octave below the full GHB chanter itself - and re Scottish bagpiping sheet music especially. And so the Scottish small pipes' chanter is likely 'pitched' like the GHB practice chanter. Re writing sheet music for the SSP, this is worth keeping in mind, in these first steps. It's possible that MuseScore software will make it possible to learn to play and write Scottish small pipe music on the stave, in the octave it's actually in, easy. More later about all of this.
See you Thursday!
All re SSP musical theory, :)
Scott
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August 4, 2020
Hi Taylor,
if you're inclined, write out just the 9 notes for the A chanter scale (adding the 2 sharps to the stave), and just 9 notes for the D chanter on a separate stave of (same) sheet music.
If you're further inclined, do this first on paper with pen or pencil, then explore writing these 18 notes again on two separate staves in MuseScore program.
This could be a total of 36 notes for beginning even to learn composing SSP music :) ... Just a further SSP exploration :)
Scott
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Wed, Aug 5, 3:05 PM (5 days ago)
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Sounds good.
By the way, I just reached to Lynne about whether a B chanter would work with my set. He says he’ll get back to me.
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Great! I got my Walsh SSP B flat chanter from John Walsh Bagpipes' itself - https://www.
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Scott MacLeod
Fri, Aug 7, 11:10 AM (3 days ago)
to Taylor
Taylor, Great lesson last night.
Refreshing my memory re anatomy of a bagpipe and 'tuning slide' -
"A thinner diameter portion of the drone over which an upper portion of the drone fits and adjusts for tuning"
(https://www.bagpipelesson.com/bagpipe-anatomy.html)
Regarding B flat chanter, and since the Walsh SSP drones' tuning slides seem long, I think these drones would pretty easily tune too to B flat and the B flat chanter, since it's only a half step above the A drone tone.
Am interested in exploring theoretically harmonics, overtones, and re drones - and 'from the inside' of us actually making these. ... and especially regarding the middle drones, which could potentially be tuned to, I'm guessing 3 or 4 notes even.
If you explore writing harmony to 'Scots Wha Hae' experimentally, sometimes playing a chanter a third above another chanter playing melody can create a nice harmony. Am not sure where the D Chanter would fit in here, or how best for us to notate this - but am thinking.
Re mastery learning for fingering and SSP expression, I'm a-teaching the extra-ordinary Stuart Liddell :)
Regards, Scott
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Taylor,
Let's take writing SSP music a step further for this Thursday, and regarding drones too.
Focusing in MuseScore on the A chanter only, on one score, let's write out the first part of Scots Wha Hae in 8 bars, - and on a separate stave let's write in the A drones playing constantly for all 8 bars too - both octaves - just to see the A drones written in. (Let's save the 2nd part for the following week)
Then, if inclined, explore writing a harmony line for a 2nd A chanter - and possibly extrapolating from Amazing Grace in 5 parts, in terms of what could work.
Then perhaps we can observe how the E drone, written out, might work OR NOT - on sheet music. (Since Scots Wha Hae ends on an A in the CoP Green Tutor, I think this is a great tune to see theoretically on the E drone would work).
Also playing the lovely slow air "My Home," a first tune in the CoP Blue Tutor, as Stuart Liddell plays it in Piping Live 2010 (pt 3 of 8) - with such great skillful SLOW expression - I hope can inform both the playing of Scots Wha Hae and Amazing Grace - re mastery learning. ... and for future weeks re composing, drones, mastery learning, harmonies etc. :)
Musical cheers, Scott
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If inclined, use your GHB practice chanter to play 'My Home' with Stuart Liddell in Piping Live 2010 - an octive BELOW - until (and if) you get a B flat SSP chanter, which will also be an octave below Stuart's GHB chanter ... but still playable with ... very sweetly!
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Scott MacLeod
Aug 9, 2020, 11:51 AM (1 day ago)
to Taylor
Hi Taylor,
A little out of the box, and brainstorming-wise, let's see if we can write some harmonies with the A chanter to the D chanter melody, which echo or come into conversation somehow with, or are inspired by, Bonnie Bramlett singing alto (and possibly descant reversing this too) at about 2;07:00 in this Allman Brothers' concert - "The Allman Brothers Band - Full Concert - 04/20/79 - Capitol Theatre (OFFICIAL)" https://youtu.be/5Hb9aNgivdg ...
Cheers,
Scott
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Angela and All,
Appreciating especially how Yoga Lene brings this music together with Yoga!
Are Yoga or music transformed themselves? I think Angela & Victor transform Yoga remarkably (and music is always transforming itself ... with no rock & roll Yoga here from Gothenburg for example! :)) But this "Yoga Concert: Metamorphosis with Yoga Lene" is pretty great! Is this a Swedish Yoga meditation? Seems to be heading that way, cosmopolitan-wise :)
Have blogged about you, today, Yoga Lene, and these ideas above to my mother and family here - https://scott-macleod.
Change - social change - of Yoga and music, re the '60s too, is fascinating to observe re socioculturally anthropology and Yogically!
Warm regards, Scott
PS Thanks for your email reply, Lynn, earlier! Love, Scott
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