Western Honey Bee: re my upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' Scottish small pipes' album ..., Seeking to begin piping lessons with Connor Sinclair soon - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html?m=0 - and this video herein by greatest piper PM Stuart Liddell lays out a kind of Scottish method to create something world class, It's humorous too :) - Watch Stuart's "The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013" video * * Scott MacLeod's solo album "Honey in the Bag" tune list * * ('structure' of tunes below from Angus D. MacColl's solo album "The Clan MacColl" Released: Jan 1, 1996 https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-clan-maccoll/181193033) * Will likely seek to wear my MacLeod kilt and Prince Charlie doublet for album cover too ... Tempos for Tunes - bagpiping tunes

Western Honey Bee re upcoming 'Honey in the Bag' Scottish small pipes' album ....



Scott MacLeod 
9:58 AM (5 hours ago)
to Connor, Andrew, Roddy, Finlay

Hi Connor,

I'm writing to inquire about Skype lessons with you on my Scottish small pipes. How might this work best? Would you be available to meet some afternoon at 4 or 5 pm, Glasgow time, in Skype (which is 8am or 9am in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I live - in Canyon CA 94516)? Or another time? Am seeking to develop my "Honey in the Bag" Scottish small pipes' album and CD (on my A chanter), as well as experiment playing B flat and D chanters and with the Combo Drone on my Walsh SSP and for a Scottish Country Dance band I play in in Berkeley. Thanks very much.  (I've lived 2 full years in Edinburgh, studying at Fettes College in the 1st year 6th in ~76-77 and at the University of Edinburgh in 2003-2004 in the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies, and where Gary West was my tutor, so - like you, Andrew, with CMU / Pittsburgh PA / USA culture, am a bit familiar with Scottish culture). Thank you.

Best regards, Scott
Scott GK MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm -

PS
FYI, Connor, here are some recent related emails to Roddy and Finlay in these regards:

Thanks so much, Finlay and Roddy,

I think I'd like to explore taking the next 5 lessons or so with Connor Sinclair, as a young world class piper (with a music degree from the Glasgow Royal Conservatoire in piping in part too) who also plays the flute and whistles in an ensemble / traditional music group (where many keys are played here by Connor Sinclair on the flute and whistle - https://gnossmusic.com/media/ :). And he's won the Gold medal at the Northern Meeting (https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/northern-meeting-2019-day-1-silver-medal-goes-to-mackenzie-mccready-takes-a-msr/) recently. I think he'd be good at experimenting with the Scottish small pipes on D and B flat chanters too (and with Combo Drone also), which could be enjoyable for him as well. I'll email him to inquire.

I created an initial structure for the tunes I'm planning to play on my Honey in the Bag upcoming album - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/maunga-terevaka-volcano-honey-in-bag.html?m=0 - which is another big step in this process.

Am seeking to make my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" a world class Scottish small pipes' album. Here's Stuart Liddell :), and where this Piping Live performance is a kind of model of the playing old favorites amazingly well - and for my upcoming album -

https://youtu.be/tuhlcFj8NUw -


https://youtu.be/gOU0OrqXSHU - in these regards. Am also taking a bit of an "The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013" approach to my "Honey in the Bag" album -

https://youtu.be/wbikiMAjhDM.

In an innovative way, am wondering too about founding an online Scottish small pipes quartet in real real time, possibly with A. Bova and D. Nevins, when information technology from Google, for example, for this comes along. What do you think? Will broach this with all of you.

Thanks so much. (And bon voyage, Finlay!).

Best regards, Scott
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials


PPS
In addition to taking lessons in preparation for my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album, which I'm planning to do fairly traditionally (see these tunes - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/gobies-scott-macleods-honey-in-bag-cd.html), playing MSR HJ slow airs etc., on a SSP A chanter, I'm also interested in learning to play the Scottish small pipes' chanters in B flat and D, and

1) with GHB sheet music (let's call this in the key of A mixolydian - with 2 sharps in the staff key notation - see below), as well as

2) Open Band (Berkeley) Scottish Country Dance band sheet music in multiple keys for the sheet music staff notation (but mostly in the keys of A, D, G, C and B flat in the sheet music staff notation). (See - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand).

... To share a concrete, practical example, playing "The Battle of Waterloo" tune works on the A chanter and on the D chanter with the same fingering and sounds good - and so I could use the same GHB sheet music in A to play both. Why and how to think about this? (The 4 drones of my Walsh Scottish small pipes, with a combination drone, and the ability to produce a fifth sound-wise, or chord-wise, raise another set of related questions I'd be interested in conversing about with a potential NPC teacher as well). (And could I even possibly explore become a National Piping Centre online Scottish small pipes' teacher at some point in the future - and with these foci too?). Thank you!


PPPS
And could I explore emailing you, Connor, the sheet music (in a Google Docs format) from Open Band every week, so you could get a sense of the music for different chanters even - and all in an experimental vein (and thus potentially enjoyably especially)? (It's also a rich trove of Scottish dancing sheet music).

With very best wishes, Scott


--
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com





Scott MacLeod solo album "Honey in the Bag" tune list


1
2/4 Marches 2

Hugh Alexander Low of Tiree
P/M Tom MacAllister / Links of Forth 6 pt


2
Jigs 3

Honey in the Bag
The Banjo Breakdown
Cabar Feidh


3
Reels 3

Helen Gladden’s Reel
Willie Cumming’s Rant
Loch Carron


4
March Strathspey Reel 3

Hugh Alexander Low of Tiree
The Cameronian Rant
Dolina MacKay


5
Jigs 4

Skyeman’s Jig
Cutting Bracken
Archie MacNab
James MacLellan’s Favourite


6
6/8 Marches 2

Seamus MacNeill
The River Creed


7
Strathspey Reels 4

The Fiddler
Dalnahasaig
Captain Horne

John Morrison, Assynt House 6 pt


8
Air 1

Chi Mi’n Toman


9
2/4 Marches 2

The Hills of Perth
Johnny Cope


10
Hornpipes

The Scotsaire Hornpipe
The Jolly Beggarman
The Man From Skye
Angus John’s Fancy - http://plheineman.net/angusjohnsfancy.htm


11
Gaelic Air Reel 2

The Mermaid’s Song
Tiree Bridal Song


12
6/8 Marches 2

Cameron MacFadyen
Duncan McGillivray


13
Polkas

The Black Watch Polka
The Queen’s Own Highlander’s Polka


14
Hornpipes

Calum Beag
Zeto the Bubbleman
The Pumpkin’s Fancy
The Streaker


15
Gaelic Air Jigs

Morag of Dunvegan

The Whistling Postman
Out of the Air
Calm Before the Storm




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('structure' of tunes below from Angus D. MacColl's solo album "The Clan MacColl"
Released: Jan 1, 1996
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-clan-maccoll/181193033)



1
2/4 Marches 2


2
Jigs 3


3
Reels 3


4
March Strathspey Reel 3


5
Jigs 4


6
6/8 Marches 2


7
Strathspey Reels 4 each


8
Air 1


9
2/4 Marches 2


10
Strathspeys/Reels 6


11
Gaelic Air Reel 2


12
2/4 Marches 2


13
Reels 6


14
Gaelic Air Jigs



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Tempos for Tunes - bagpiping tunes






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Will likely seek to wear my MacLeod kilt and Prince Charlie doublet for album cover too ... (I got this kilt in the around-1976, and it still fits, and I think my father, Gordon K. MacLeod MD was part of getting this kilt:).