Pistachio: How - how - to move toward more beautiful piping re learning, and how to learn too how to engage with practicing in new ways? * * * Bagpiping over the internet and for learning with Finlay MacDonald in Glasgow, Scotland * * * Seeking how to engage some of Eric Dodson's ideas here in "What I've Learned from Teaching" - to the psychology of practicing a musical instrument and playing the Scottish small pipes ... ... and with regard too to YO YO MA's and Wynton Marsalis's Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument * * * Seeking how to explore intrinsic engagement in learning to love practicing here re a kind of faith and caring ... :)

How - how - to move toward more beautiful piping re learning, and how to learn too how to engage with practicing in new ways?

I think these guidelines are helpful in these regards re envisioning and seeking out private instruction http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm (and there are others I've written for eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology like practicing a musical instrument - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm) ... but I think I'm going to explore writing some re learning to love practicing an instrument on top of these two.


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Am taking Skype piping lessons presently with Finlay MacDonald, Head of Piping Studies at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow (which merged in 2018 with The College of Piping in Glasgow) ... partly toward my "Honey in the Bag" album in 2020, with 3 chanters - A, D, B flat - and may seek to have my lesson before meeting with you on Thursday. Am curious to talk with him about how to
focus my piping with Open Band (where almost all of the sheet music is not in the A chanter's range - allowing opportunities to be creative however:).

Seeking too to get the D-E 'Combo Drone,' the 4th drone on SSP, working well and find how to make most beautiful piping music with it as well.

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Hi Finlay,

Yes! Wednesday 9 October sounds good. I'll confirm the day before (given wi-fi changes in process where I live). Can we explore penciling in lessons Wednesdays at 4? Congratulations on lecturing at the University of Glasgow. 

Am focusing on how to learn to make my piping more beautiful with perhaps Kathryn Tickells' 'out of the box' 'beautiful' (and creative -

Woohoo! Found a mausoleum with brilliant acoustics & had my pipes in the car... #TuneOfTheMonth is imminent!! pic.twitter.com/pC2ezJGToc

— Kathryn Tickell (@kathryntickell) September 29, 2019

https://twitter.com/kathryntickell/status/1178322779407572994) piping as one example.

Re item 10 here:

10 Think for yourself.
Don’t become a robot, but don’t dismiss what you’re taught.

http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm

I'm listening to and learning from you (circling round back to item 1 here too). Thanks, and see you on Wednesday in a week!

Re creativity, here's a new piping project of mine -

ScottMacLeod
@scottmacleod
Oct 1
New! - Bach on Bagpipe Project.
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach -  Scottish Small Pipes - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes
@WorldUnivAndSch especially re Bach Google Doodle AI http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/western-meadowlark-world-univ-sch-live.html?m=0 & http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/common-bluebell-ongoing-envisioning-of.html?m=0 & possibly re my
@scottmacleod upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' SSP album

New! - Bach on Bagpipe Project.https://t.co/SXLd1t3Dry - Scottish Small Pipes -https://t.co/FTInKtiD7r @WorldUnivAndSch especially re Bach Google Doodle AI https://t.co/Rm1GsEKLLq & https://t.co/Ykz6olQBHl & possibly re my @scottmacleod upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' SSP album

— ScottMacLeod (@scottmacleod) October 1, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1179060219860508673

And re this new beginning Bach project in the 2nd half of my blog post from yesterday, I compare some beautiful Bach lute by Hopkinson Smith (who went to Harvard, but lives in Switzerland) with a GHB piper playing a little Bach -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/andean-cock-of-rock-wisdom-education-by.html - with lots of room for exploration, especially potentially with Bach Google Doodle AI with machine learning!

Cheers, Scott

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Returning to Eric L. Dodson's videos (I first explored yesterday in my blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/andean-cock-of-rock-wisdom-education-by.html - and which are all really great!)


What I've Learned from Teaching



https://youtu.be/XA_nJGzddOY

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Seeking how to engage some of Eric Dodson's ideas here in "What I've Learned from Teaching" - https://youtu.be/XA_nJGzddOY - to the psychology of practicing a musical instrument and playing the Scottish small pipes ... and with regard too to YO YO MA's and Wynton Marsalis's Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument (an ongoing exploration in this blog)

Intrinsic engagement at 2:45

Keep things in perspective at 5:35 (existential humility) in learning / teaching

Faith at 11:00 minutes - that

Caring at 11:45

What endures in learning? at 12:00 ... caring ...


Thanks for being in the storm of life with Eric and in the teaching and learning connection.


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Seeking how to explore intrinsic engagement in learning to love practicing here re a kind of faith and caring ... :)

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