Thursday, August 20, 2020

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Scott MacLeod
Tue, Aug 18, 11:18 AM (2 days ago)
to Taylor

Re 'mastery learning' thinking, let's explore with time playing any of the tunes from the Green or Blue Tutors (I can share ones further from the my Blue/Green Tutors which you don't have, for learning purposes, - and since you have a Blue Tutor too esp.) by sight-reading in a sense. (And even at Bruce Wright's tempos with time - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html).

I bet too the Scottish music genre Piobaireachd (Ceòl Mòr) we're getting into will offer lovely material for composing harmonies newly (but they're also all laments! :( :) ... so let's keep harmonizing with the dance tunes - light music - Ceòl Beag - too, composing-wise!

Scott



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Scott MacLeod
11:50 AM (10 hours ago)
to Taylor

Taylor,

Piobaireachd informs Scottish bagpiping theory significantly - in a living music way ...

Found Jack Lee playing the "Desperate Battle" in the tuxedo T-shirt here (from 2013)
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/sunbittern-stavenn-eurypiga-helias.html

And Colin MacLellan's Piobaireachds - https://www.pipereeds.com/piobaireachd-played-by-colin.html - are worth a listen (in the background), well-played (re note duration), - and may be some of the most beautiful 'old favorites' of the old Piobaireachds too - and yet without multimedia or other virtual expression of vision, beyond the initial painting, tile or art. (But it would be interesting to hear PM Stuart Liddell play these amazing Piobaireachds:).

Michael Grey here again (from Th, June 25, 2020 too) in these regards -
The Prince's Salute - Michael Grey - bagpipes and canntaireachd

https://youtu.be/ZCHRQuITwWs
( and it's also about St. Kilda which I did my University of Edinburgh MSc thesis on in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies - virtual St. Kilda as place even ... )

Lovely played Piobaireachd by Michael Grey as well! Nether Lorn Canntaireachd is best known both scholarly ...

See you this evening!

Musical cheers, Scott

Here's Jack Lee after recording all of the Piobaireachds in the Piobaireachd Society's Vol. 1-15
"Of the 250+ tunes I found that about 100 were absolutely brilliant and amazing to play"
https://www.reddit.com/r/bagpipes/comments/38rniy/jack_lee_has_finished_recording_all_15_books_in/

Further Piobaireachd resources -
http://www.bagpipe history.info/piobaireachd.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pibroch

https://www.piobaireachd.co.uk/what-is-piobaireachd




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Scott MacLeod
12:10 PM (10 hours ago)
to Taylor

Taylor,

And here's the actual URL for The Desperate Battle (Piobaireachd) played by Jack Lee in a tuxedo T-shirt, which is a great great introduction too to learning to play this tune:

Kieran Blais - An Cath Gailbeach / The Desperate Battle (Piobaireachd)

https://youtu.be/ylkkMdCGRbU

In both of these blog posts:

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/sunbittern-stavenn-eurypiga-helias.html
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/vulturine-guinea-fowl-just-came-across.html

And here's a recent Tweet from today in these regards -
Piobaireachd informs #ScottishBagpipingTheory significantly: Jack Lee playing the "Desperate Battle" in the tuxedo T-shirt -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/sunbittern-stavenn-eurypiga-helias.html Colin MacLellan's Piobaireachds - https://www.pipereeds.com/piobaireachd-played-by-colin.html
The Prince's Salute - Michael Grey - #StKilda

https://youtu.be/ZCHRQuITwWs ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1296520860535152641?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1296523388735766529?s=20

I also think Michael Grey's The Prince's Salute - https://youtu.be/ZCHRQuITwWs - with St Kilda / Hirta in multimedia expresses remarkably with Piobaireachd the VISIONARY aspect of this music, and very creatively. (And does Jack Lee above create VISION for learners with The Desperate Battle Piobaireachd without much multimedia, besides the tuxedo T-shirt :)

Musical cheers,
Scott

Related Jack Lee "Desperate Battle" blog posts from 2013:

Sunbittern - Stavenn Eurypiga Helias: Talking Piobaireachd, Building on Angus MacLellan's note durations on the CoP Tutor Vol. 4 CD in "The Company's Lament" and "MacKintosh's Banner" toward further beauty, perhaps doing what Yo yo Ma does ever so beautifully and wondrously with the Bach Cello Suites, which also have a sad tonal aspect to them, like Piobaireachd, Liking Kenny MacLean's and Jack Lee's playing of "The Desperate Battle" here at WUaS's Piobaireachd wiki page, Do you teach "The Desperate Battle"?, Scottish smallpipe comparisons

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/sunbittern-stavenn-eurypiga-helias.html

Vulturine guinea fowl: Just came across this far-reaching, beautiful and well-known Piobaireachd (classical bagpipe music) The Desperate Battle (of the Birds), played remarkably and transformatively by PM Jack Lee, making it sound like real birds squawking and clucking, and which is also a great recording for learners of this tune, Added it to WUaS's Piobaireachd, wiki, Subject page, Piping, wiki, Subject pages for open teaching and learning are growing at WUaS

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/vulturine-guinea-fowl-just-came-across.html -




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Scott MacLeod musicalmacflower@gmail.com

3:24 PM (6 hours ago)
to Taylor
Taylor,

Re Scottish small pipes' seconds' composing, am curious too about writing countermelodies 

Have been listening to Peter, Paul and Mary (BBC 1965) - https://youtu.be/qdcapT2Tdag - and just learned of the bass player in the background, Dick Kniss - 

Not Bach fugues, am interested in any 2 completely separate piping tunes, which when played together create music and harmonies. Can't think of any whatsoever, and perhaps the key you composed the PIper of Drummond's seconds in would be best for exploring this, given the 9 note range of the Scottish pipe ...

Some further musical directions to head in regarding Scottish piping and innovations even :)

Musical cheers, 
Scott


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Scott MacLeod
9:54 PM (22 minutes ago)
to Taylor, me

Taylor,

one interesting question for me theory-wise, in these regards, is what is a melody? And further, could Scottish bagpipe melodies somehow be different from melodies in general (ie Piobaireachd grounds / urlars or motifs for example)? "). And what is a Scottish piping melody (I like in particular what I'll call 'lyrical' piping music) relative to seconds, or harmonies?

Cheers,
Scott

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Scott MacLeod
12:59 PM (9 hours ago)
to Taylor

I just noticed that this

Kieran Blais - An Cath Gailbeach / The Desperate Battle (Piobaireachd)
https://youtu.be/ylkkMdCGRbU

is played by a piper named Kieran Blais based on what he heard Jack Lee playing at a workshop ... still appreciating it, but worth listening to others esp! (will correct blog pages!)

Cheers, Scott


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Piobaireachd informs #ScottishBagpipingTheory significantly: Jack Lee playing the "Desperate Battle" in the tuxedo T-shirt -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/sunbittern-stavenn-eurypiga-helias.html Colin MacLellan's Piobaireachds - https://www.pipereeds.com/piobaireachd-played-by-colin.html
The Prince's Salute - Michael Grey - #StKilda
https://youtu.be/ZCHRQuITwWs ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1296520860535152641?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1296523388735766529?s=20


Sunbittern - Stavenn Eurypiga Helias: Talking Piobaireachd, Building on Angus MacLellan's note durations on the CoP Tutor Vol. 4 CD in "The Company's Lament" and "MacKintosh's Banner" toward further beauty, perhaps doing what Yo yo Ma does ever so beautifully and wondrously with the Bach Cello Suites, which also have a sad tonal aspect to them, like Piobaireachd, Liking Kenny MacLean's and Jack Lee's playing of "The Desperate Battle" here at WUaS's Piobaireachd wiki page, Do you teach "The Desperate Battle"?, Scottish smallpipe comparisons

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/sunbittern-stavenn-eurypiga-helias.html


Vulturine guinea fowl: Just came across this far-reaching, beautiful and well-known Piobaireachd (classical bagpipe music) The Desperate Battle (of the Birds), played remarkably and transformatively by PM Jack Lee, making it sound like real birds squawking and clucking, and which is also a great recording for learners of this tune, Added it to WUaS's Piobaireachd, wiki, Subject page, Piping, wiki, Subject pages for open teaching and learning are growing at WUaS

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/vulturine-guinea-fowl-just-came-across.html

Kieran Blais - An Cath Gailbeach / The Desperate Battle (Piobaireachd)
https://youtu.be/ylkkMdCGRbU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylkkMdCGRbU




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Scott MacLeod
8:10 PM (2 hours ago)
to Taylor

Taylor,

Good stuff! !

Next week,

Piper of Drummond pt 2 & re composing (and up to reel speed? - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html ? eventually played as a duet or with seconds live even? :)

Mason's Apron pts 3&4

Jig of Slurs pt 2 +

Are you ordering a SSP chanter in B flat?

I'd think that the Piper of Drummond harmonies you composed could be best played on a B flat SSP chanter, and that, brainstorming-wise, since the melody line from the Green Tutor isn't there per se, that both of the lines you composed could be harmonies. We'll have to see if they work, when and if you get a B flat chanter, and we can play together in person face-to-face (and not just face-to-face in Skype).  But I'd think we can think of your composition in other ways too! Congratulations!

Musical cheers,
Scott



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Taylor Warren
8:40 PM (1 hour ago)
to me

I just asked Jean how much a Bb polypenco chanter by itself will go for. I'll see for myself if it'll work with my drones. If it doesn't, I can still use the chanter with no drones and maybe save up for a full Bb set when I have the money set aside.


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

8:48 PM (1 hour ago)
to Taylor
Cool!

Another consideration: If you were to get a new set of polypenco B flat drones too eventually, would there be a COMBO drone (as a kind of baritone drone)? ... am assuming there would be (but an A/D COMBO drone offers more combinations of tones).

Am only beginning to find the magic of the baritone combo drone in certain tunes in the right key (this past week) ... So COMBO drone on Bflat full SS pipes is no biggy ..

Sounds great, esp. if you think you'll play it a lot ... B flat chanter opens horizons with learning Piobaireachd re GHB recordings too !

Congratulations if you get the chanter!

Cheers,
Scott


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

8:52 PM (1 hour ago)
to Taylor
I guess a combo drone too on B flat SSP would offer fewer tone combinations anyway - perhaps an F and an E on this baritone Combo drone if it exists ... :) 


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Taylor Warren

8:54 PM (1 hour ago)
to me
It looks like the Bb Walsh smallpipes have a baritone drone, but it doesn’t say if it’s a combo drone



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

9:03 PM (1 hour ago)
to Taylor
Cool, thanks! SSP B flat chanter, first, worked for me. Would involve a little bit of another wait if it didn't work out.

Cheers, Scott


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Scott MacLeod

1:23 PM (8 hours ago)
to ScottmeJanie
Hi Ma, 
Re vision and sound for my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" SSP album (which I'm playing nightly for, before going to bed - and which I think I shared with you on Tu Apr 28, 2020 too):

It's the otherness of Scottish kilt and attire that can compliment this vision of cultural alien of spaceship bagpiper playing beautiful bagpipe as (inscrutable) computer code that I'd like to highlight as vision with video even in my upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' Scottish Small Pipes' album. (Indians. India. Hippies - at Harbin Hot Springs esp - can all get very beautifully to this other cultural liminal luminaries' space, in visionary clothes too, - and with music). I won't suggest that spaceship bagpipe computer small piping is anything like shooting a ray gun for tele-transportation  "Beam me up, Scotty" from Star Trek. ... but this Scottish alien envisioning could contribute to a vision of freedom for Scotland as well, Ma! ;)Love, Scott
How's your day going? Thermometer inside says 82F now, with fan on ... cooler than yesterday but getting warmer!
Love, Scott


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

2:03 PM (8 hours ago)
to JaneScott
Ma, 

PLAYED piping some jigs at 110 bpm last night again - good news - and the upper BPM end of where I'd like to play all the jigs and strathspeys ON ALBUM  .. still some work to go  ... regarding Scottish small piping ray gun shooting for tele-transportation :)! Wanna play the jigs and strathspeys both at about 120 very well and transformatively, flow experience-wise! :)

I touch on this in this blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/red-trillium-cow-and-calf-what-is-cow.html - and others too!

Love, Scott


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