Have just made a new "Tune Tutorial" for both A and D chanters, where the Great Highland Bagpipe's chanter is in B flat mixolydian (often, sometimes, been getting sharper/ brighter ... bagpiping culture is its own world ... Shotts & Dykehead won 'The Worlds' with pipers' low A at 496 Hz in 1996, I've heard, or similar :) ...
Cape Cod National Seashore: "Tune Tutorials" for the Scottish Small Pipes on both A and D chanters, based on tunes in College of Pipings' Green Tutor, Vol. 1 * * * See at bottom: Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: https://wiki.
- https://scott-macleod.
- https://scott-macleod.
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Hello Lorne
(Lorne MacDougall, bagpiper from Carradale, Scotland, who also plays with "The Tannahill Weavers," and with whom I've taken College of Piping Skype piping lessons),
Thanks for your email this morning. Great to have taken lessons with you in recent years. What do you have in mind by "I could sort out something through my own personal set up if you like though?" (having not heard back yet from Head of Piping Studies' Finlay or NPC Principal Roddy). Do you know Finlay or Roddy, by any chance?
Cheers, Scott
Just shared this with my mother re piping:
Looks like I'll get a B flat chanter, from Walsh Bagpipes in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in the mail on Monday - there's a yellow package slip in my PO Box. And I've just finished recording all of the 10 Lessons' tunes from the College of Piping's Green Tutor Vol 1 on the D chanter (after recording all 14 of these tunes on the A chanter recently too). I'll record the remaining 4 tunes in the CoP Vol 1 appendix on the D chanter before I head to Cuttyhunk on Tuesday. This is a kind of video Tune Tutorial for anyone learning the Scottish Small Pipes with a D or A chanter, and a way for me to learn the smaller D chanter (fingers close together!) as well as which tunes are playable on it (key wise, within bagpipe sheet music), as well as getting familiar with recording myself, as well as getting past my perfectionism i learning in a new way. I have Kathryn Tickell's alternative beautiful Northumbrian piping (to GHB piping's 'formalism') in mind - https://youtu.be/HiuMwskhsGk
BLUE MICROPHONES Yeti USB Microphone with Ultimate Recording Bundle - (Steel Red)
I also got the CoP Blue Tutor Vol 3 the other day from House of Bagpipes in SF, which tunes I'm planning to record too, probably with the A chanter (and possibly with the D chanter - for further fingers-close and recording learning). And with the new SSP B flat chanter, I'll be able to both play along with the CoP Piobaireachd Gold Tutor Vol 4 for learning further the last 2 of its 4 tunes, and then may seek to record them in A on SSP as well as Tune Tutorial. This structure is helpful for me.
I heard back from Lorne MacDougall in Glasgow, with whom I've enjoyably and edifyingly taken Skype bagpipe lessons before, today, and who is happy to help with lessons, - having not heard back from the Piping Centre's Roddy MacLeod/Finlay MacDonald yet. ... (All interesting to think about re World University and School's online piping wiki subjects too - https://wiki.
In this learning by recording process re an old pattern in me of inhibitory self-consciousness when not playing perfectly, I play all these tunes well I think - https://www.youtube.com/
Scott
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Hi Lorne,
thanks for your email. Am set presently for lessons with Finlay at National Piping Centre, but will keep you in mind for the future in a variety of ways. I may have heard back from Finlay after a hiatus, partly thanks to you - so thanks. Am seeking with lessons to focus on making a Scottish Small Piping CD in 2020 I'm tentatively entitling "Honey in the Bag." Conceptually, I could see Catherine Ashcroft's musical partner here as a kind of producer/teacher in a broad sense in this piping (and could be one pattern for me in developing "Honey in the Bag"), since I find the playing of this tune - https://youtu.be/P40YOU8ggJk
Am currently listening to Jean Redpath's "Leaving the Land" - a favorite, which is about Canada and the Carolinas in the States of all places ... in this time of upcoming Scottish independence referendum possibly in 2022.
Thanks for the Zoom H2n microphone suggestion. In learning further about mics, am going to try the other 2 microphones I own besides the one on my MacBook Pro - the mic on my head set (which ear piece for headset just broke in Las Vegas airport as I headed east), and the mic on my smartphone for better recordings re "Tune Tutorial." Am wondering currently too about condenser mics (e.g. the Walmart YETI mic) vs dynamic mics (which I see most live piping recordings using). Getting a professional setup with my MacBook Pro, and thus USB seems logical for possible CDs and online music making ahead, even possible real real time live person-to-person in something like what comes after Google Hangouts closing August 1, 2019, but its successor starting at the same time. (Don't know where real real time music-making is in the Google road map, but am thinking they'll be the ones. Hopefully World Univ & Sch's Music School will be able to avail itself of real, real time music-making with time - https://wiki.
(As you may have seen in your Yahoo email address, from an email of mine about 2 hours ago or so to about 60 SF Bay Area Scottish music-making people, and referred to too, "have just made a new "Tune Tutorial" for both A and D chanters, where the Great Highland Bagpipe's chanter is in B flat mixolydian (often, sometimes, been getting sharper/ brighter ... bagpiping culture is its own world ... Shotts & Dykehead won 'The Worlds' with pipers' low A at 496 Hz in 1996, I've heard, or similar :) ...
Cape Cod National Seashore: "Tune Tutorials" for the Scottish Small Pipes on both A and D chanters, based on tunes in College of Pipings' Green Tutor, Vol. 1 * * * See at bottom: Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: https://wiki.
- https://scott-macleod.
- https://scott-macleod.
Glad you have a house - in Carradale I presume - https://www.google.com/maps/
Am continuing to seek a partner here to begin a family. Are you starting a family having kids yet already, Lorne, by any chance? I'd really like to begin a family, although I don't rue not having started before now (even given that I'm going to be a mature father when they get to be in their 20s:). On here too with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School - re Scotland WUaS too! - as well as my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project!
Cheers, Scott
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'Tune Tutorials'
as experimental videos for the
Scottish Small Pipes
on A & D chanters
playing all 14 tunes from the College of Piping's Tutor, Vol. 1
for those learning the SSP anew,
where the Great Highland Bagpipe (GHB) and its practice chanter too are typically in B flat mixolydian when playing with other non-GHB instruments.
All of these tunes are played with a single drone sound - in A with the A chanter, and in D with the D chanter. The SSP combo drone on my Walsh Scottish Small Pipes - which can be set to either an E or D - for creating a chord sound with the drones (and potentially only with specific bagpipe tunes in that key) is not used in these "Tune Tutorials."
I haven't yet played the SSP B flat mixolydian chanter, by will soon.
Scots Wha Ha'e - First Measure - from The College of Piping's Green Tutor, Vol. 1, on the Scottish Small Pipes'
A chanter
http://youtu.be/LmarClyJHng
D chanter
https://youtu.be/ehdXoh1GIhk
Scots Wha Ha'e - Second Measure
A chanter
http://youtu.be/ZLHNzkkeO2Q
D chanter
https://youtu.be/qYI3Vd45Hcc
The Brown Haired Maiden - First Measure
A
http://youtu.be/JMBQYdHX4pw
D
https://youtu.be/HTdFdHcZIA4
The Brown Haired Maiden - Second Measure
A
http://youtu.be/tqLK_M-kn74
D
https://youtu.be/l6VyubdOYks
The High Road to Gairloch - First Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/fDZUPQFuVxQ
D
https://youtu.be/wAqKEpLykCI
The High Road to Gairloch - Second Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/ohwGdOwR3LA
D
https://youtu.be/tpn39nRBZN8
Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/hrRFoppFTjI
D
https://youtu.be/iv5S5eC-brE
Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/T5BuL3LuBrQ
D
https://youtu.be/GjDb6YK1NWs
Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)
A
https://youtu.be/6c4JRHzfGOg
Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)
A
https://youtu.be/P9DjYPcjngw
The Carles Wi' The Breeks - First Measure - 6/8 Slow Air
A
https://youtu.be/0yj7tjOQG5g
D
https://youtu.be/DlALBp6ekno
The Carles Wi' The Breeks - Second Measure - 6/8 Slow Air
A
https://youtu.be/Rk9UTrqSwcc
D
https://youtu.be/qL7ND57puzM
The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - First Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/VZHoE-L8rB8
D
https://youtu.be/bTNYYGY-2xc
The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Second Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/FBAd2MzU2CM
D
https://youtu.be/EIVPeEbt9sQ
The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Third Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/fLUnYL3baDA
D
https://youtu.be/Td_20JIhr7U
The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Fourth Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/BE6fYa8j9Bs
D
https://youtu.be/JeN4-sJ04FU
The Earl of Mansfield - First Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/vExepuv9XwY
D
https://youtu.be/n_kUWmvWaFw
The Earl of Mansfield - Second Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/AoeVorO2Drg
D
https://youtu.be/_7qwbFZXRcA
The Earl of Mansfield - Third Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/fqKqdoxC3HI
D
https://youtu.be/EuOcVnQwack
Inverness Rant - First Measure - Strathspey
A
https://youtu.be/QmutM1URIrM
D
https://youtu.be/ak-DNS4fZbo
Inverness Rant - Second Measure - Strathspey
A
https://youtu.be/X9NFuJfzOPI
D
https://youtu.be/dHGXi1OwLZQ
The Piper of Drummond - First Measure - 4/4 Reel
A
https://youtu.be/sb3e7ulbrFg
D
https://youtu.be/7G2KGWQ99E8
The Piper of Drummond - Second Measure - 4/4 Reel
A
https://youtu.be/sSKm7MIAhdc
D
https://youtu.be/ZQtIfDzVCVQ
The Green Hills of Tyrol - First Measure - 3/4 Retreat March
A
https://youtu.be/xPmZZHnk3uA
D
https://youtu.be/eQPGJfWCn90
The Green Hills of Tyrol - Second Measure - 3/4 Retreat March
A
https://youtu.be/oQucLhRH1bQ
D
https://youtu.be/XZbrgQ7_UfY
Atholl Highlanders - 6/8 March
A
https://youtu.be/Rem2AWJ1aps
D
https://youtu.be/Se8FJkfSmzo
Aiken Drum - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/W5USCe7DKis
D
https://youtu.be/SeU4lnblK0s
Piobaireachd of Donald Dubh - 6/8 March
A chanter
https://youtu.be/WEWTPWMJT2E
D chanter
https://youtu.be/4R0h6kA3wmo
Blue Bonnets - 6/8 March
A chanter
https://youtu.be/TVptnxJzF3A
D chanter
https://youtu.be/RaPlCVo79zc
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Good morning, M!
Just playing new tunes through on my D chanter from the College of Piping's Blue Tutor, Vol. 3 - nice tunes, and good for becoming familiar with the smaller D chanter (without yet using the Combo drone tuned to A to create a 'chord' which combo' drone tone will only work with some tunes in some tune's keys). Lovely tunes! Am playing them with these Guidelines for Practicing in mind - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm - and am up to #4 -
"4 Concentrate when you practice.
Yo-yo says join feelings into your music when you feel bad, to integrate your feelings with your mind and body"
and even slightly dancing a bit to them (re Yo Yo Ma's feelings' comment:).
Glad to have heard back from Finlay in Glasgow this morning. We've scheduled our first lesson for W Aug. 7th at 4pm in Scotland - re "Guidelines for Practicing" #1. And #2 and #3 are currently happening via my playing through the Blue Tutor.
#5 Relax and practice slowly.
... am doing this ... #6 too ... and so on ...
Liking the D chanter, but back to the A chanter as well, for the 2nd half of playing this morning. Am seeking to play for about an hour (since it's wet outside re gardening! But am seeking to garden as well when things dry off a little more).
Going to try the other 2 microphones I have with me besides the one on my MacBook Pro - the mic on my head set (which ear piece for headset just broke in Las Vegas airport as I headed east), and the mic on my smartphone, for better recordings re Blue Book Vol 3 as upcoming "Video Tune Tutorial" on both chanters ...
Thanks to Wynton Marsalis and Yo Yo Ma for these "Guidelines for Practicing" :)
Are you playing recorder with your recorder group now that you're back from UUA Summer Institute?
On with playing further now! And looking forward to seeing you soon - a week from today!
L, Scott
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Scottish Country Dancing, and Music-Making Branch and Class Websites, Intro Party Flyers
Heather MacKay
Thu, Jul 18, 12:41 PM (1 day ago)
to Berkeley, me
Hi all,
The web gods granted me temporary access to update the class listings on the Branch website. So that is done (though the class's own web page still needs updating). For future reference -- anyone who is a teacher or class manager should be able to log in to the website to make updates.
Heather
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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Jul 18, 2:14 PM (1 day ago)
to Patti, David, Bruce, Barbara, Jonathan, Linda, Alex, Salina, Heather, Berkeley
Wow, the web gods have indeed been good to you, Heather! May they also be so good to you eternally into the future - deus ex machina (i.e. dragon-drawn chariot sent by the sun god - the power of language!), and pas de basque too! :) Glad too the Branch is developing fruitful policy for web updates by teachers!
Should the Branch begin to use Google Sites for web sources, I'd particularly be interested in collaborating re http://worlduniversityandschool.org and related https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing school in multiple languages, for ex. ... Had a bit of trouble with getting DNS CNAME setting verified further, and working, with worlduniversityandschool.org's host 238+ days ago, so this is the kind of collaborating I have in mind.
Web god cheers - dragon-drawn chariot sent by the sun god - (You-rippa-dese, you-menda-dese as they say, literally translated by author / title as Euripides > 'Eumenides' (by Aeschylus) > Aristophanes ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina :) So be it in the RISQUE:) Berkeley Branch
Happy SCD and related music-makings :),
Scott
Here's today's WUaS Hangout on Air https://t.co/6PjMIHqO1W -— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) July 15, 2019
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https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1150876450343415808
Are these digital markings on this "Dancing Lego Robot" (link: https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1129348406760099846) twitter.com/LEGO_Education… paralleling autonomous vehicle driving A.I. software the beginnings of virtual Lego robotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics ie re WeDo 2.0 & Mindstorms EV3 for education?
Are these digital markings on this "Dancing Lego Robot"https://t.co/Wox6hVfzDX paralleling autonomous vehicle driving A.I. software the beginnings of virtual Lego robotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth#RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics ie re WeDo 2.0 & Mindstorms EV3 for education?— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) May 18, 2019
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1129792518965661696
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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com
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M,
How's your day going? And what are you up to this weekend?
Made my first attempt at recording "My Home" in a Google group video Hangout - newly with my little ORANGE headset microphone, and with limited bandwidth from Cuttyhunk. "My Home" is the lovely first tune in the CoP Blue Book Vol. 3, and am curious how Hangouts' recordings will go (where Hangouts are phasing out on August 1, 2019 but will be immediately replaced by something similar).
Here's the test - "My Home (mic TEST) - 6/8 Slow Air - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A" - https://youtu.be/c3BWubw3k2w - where the little orange microphone basically feeds directly into the Hangout, instead of being independent of the video recording, which is probably the direction I'll head with recording for my "Honey in the Bag" CD ...
My "orange microphone" sound quality may be a little better than the MacBook Pro's microphone, and also with the drone sound, but it's still not great.
Probably worth seeking out a dynamic microphone, and find software on my computer - possibly Garage Band - which can feed into it. My "orange microphone" is probably a very little 'dynamic' microphone (in contrast to 'condenser' microphones), and it may be possible to feed it into Garage Band directly (and still do Hangout video recordings) ...
Suns out ... time to get out gardening before it gets too hot!
Love, Scott
""My Home" (mic TEST) - 6/8 Slow Air - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A "
https://youtu.be/c3BWubw3k2w
Looks like in this Scottish Small Pipes' recording I just came across on Youtube that one dynamic microphone is used for both chanter and drones, and which works, and that the video is separate, by way of comparison -
Mike Katz & Mike Whellans playing Scottish small bagpipes & harmonica
https://youtu.be/ui5h_ip_Un8
I like the improvisational aspect of these two folks playing together.
https://youtu.be/c3BWubw3k2w
Looks like in this Scottish Small Pipes' recording I just came across on Youtube that one dynamic microphone is used for both chanter and drones, and which works, and that the video is separate, by way of comparison -
Mike Katz & Mike Whellans playing Scottish small bagpipes & harmonica
https://youtu.be/ui5h_ip_Un8
I like the improvisational aspect of these two folks playing together.
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Hi M,
Next Scottish Small Pipes' recording exploration at an easy tempo for learners ...
MacBookPro Microphone into Garage Band (as some audio file format) uploaded to Sound Cloud - https://soundcloud.com/scottmacleod-com - as "Tune Tutorials" for the CoP Blue Tutor, Vol 3 ... with its 21 tunes on both A & D chanters (whereas the CoP Green Tutor, Vol 1 has 14 tunes ... and the CoP Gold Tutor, Vol 4. has 4 Piobaireachds ... )
L, Scott
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M,
Think I'm heading eventually for one excellent dynamic microphone (the familiar kind, with 1/8 inch adapter into earphone slot in MacBook Pro - for both chanter and drones) ... as part of the planning process for "Honey in the Bag" CD (with blockchain ledger and Google Doodle AI software for generating a few harmonies on sheet music?)
Next Scottish Small Pipes' recording exploration at an easy tempo for learners ...
MacBookPro Microphone into Garage Band (as some audio file format) uploaded to Sound Cloud - https://soundcloud.com/
Cheers, Scott
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Scots Gaelic has the word bùrn, also cognate, but which means "fresh water"; the actual Gaelic for a "burn" is allt (sometimes anglicised as "ault" or "auld" in placenames.)
creek in Scottish Gaelic
translation and definition "creek", English-Scottish Gaelic Dictionary online
creek
- allt{ noun masculine }
- bàgh{ noun feminine }
- sruth{ noun masculine }
...