Scottish Small Piping - bagpiping * * create Lego Mindstorms' robots as Scottish drummers playing such rhythms - almost as prompts for one's own music-making * * Playing with quasi-metronomes aka Scottish drumming can lead to new 'flow' experiences (and here's one definition - http://scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm).
Hi Taylor,
In lieu of a metronome, I just looked for and found a Scottish drumming track for 4/4 marches:
2/4 March time drum beatings
Scottish Drumming Music - 4/4 March Massed Band EUSPBA for pipe band drummers
then this popped up:
Scottish Snare Drumming Music - 6/8 March Massed Band EUSPBA for Pipe Band Drummers
https://youtu.be/t0fIV1y6cHY
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Pipe Band Drumming : 6/8 Marches
Haven't tried these, but could be inspiring and helpful in new ways in playing ... will keep my eyes open for strathspey and reel drumming music :)
See you tomorrow evening,
Scott
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Hi Taylor,
Perhaps we can play around a bit experimentally with these new approaches to learning with 'quasi-metronomes.' These (Scottish drumming rhythms) are complex, and interesting, and I found it helpful first just to sing the main note from a 2/4 March or a 6/8 March, beat my left and right feet as if marching too, and also tap my hand to get the pulse (and not playing a tune with on the Scottish Small Pipes).
Brainstorming-wise, and newly, it might be fun to create Lego Mindstorms' robots as Scottish drummers playing such rhythms - almost as prompts for one's own music-making - and then, out of the box, even to code such hypothetically Mindstorms' robots to move from this drumming into Grateful Dead drumming (as prompts too), Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman, workable with piping music. (I'm only making occasional robots with the simpler Lego Robotics' kit We Do 2.0, so this thinking is currently in the envisioning phase :).
Haven't yet been able to find strathspey and reel 'metronomic' Scottish drumming yet, and re this evening's
MSR: :)
PM Willie Gray
Dorrator Bridge
Devil in the Kitchen
Musical cheers,
Scott
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Good morning Taylor,
Would you like to explore playing this "Green Hills Of Tyrol" tune from the Green Tutor (with your practice chanter, since someone is playing with him on practice chanter, and your SSP chanter is in A) with quasi-metronome, Gordon Bell? :)
Green Hills Of Tyrol- Gordon Bell
https://youtu.be/nRggJNYXOZAPlaying with quasi-metronomes aka Scottish drumming can lead to new 'flow' experiences (and here's one definition - http://scottmacleod.com/
(I don't know if you or April might like to learn to code with the drag and drop visual Scratch programming language out of MIT Media Lab / Harvard HGSE beginning 7/6 -
More than 500 people are #GettingUnstuck! Join us for 10 days of creative programming with Scratch: https://t.co/SuWoe6fth5pic.twitter.com/Nl3RIpPlCJ— #CreativeComputing (@ScratchEdTeam) July 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/
For upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album, I experimentally could even put on headphones when playing 2 sets of 2 6/8s with
"One-ing" while playing Scottish small pipes with the 'complexity' of Scottish drumming rhythms and for expressive-ness is an art itself. ... interesting learning curve (and am thinking of Stuart Liddell's piping as inspiration in these regards).
I'm not sure if this is great drummer Stephen McWhirter at around the 1:20 or the 2 minute mark -
The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013
https://youtu.be/wbikiMAjhDM
but here they are together 'one-ing' away :) -
Stuart Liddell & Steven McWhirter: Inveraray duo in Pipes+Drums Recital
Cheers,
Scott
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Taylor,
Gordon Duncan - Thunderstruck + riffing
https://youtu.be/Phy-_ko0zWU
And so many of his tunes are as creative (I'll call this:).
Cheers, Scott
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Getting Unstuck: 10 Days of Scratch - is what the Scratch prompts are upcoming daily about, in playing around with this new easy coding language.
There's a 'coming unglued' aspect to Rock & Roll that can be a fascinating direction to head in, and perhaps Gordon Duncan does this here
Gordon Duncan - Thunderstruck + riffing
Exploring COMING UNGLUED is something hippies seemed to gravitate toward - amusingly :) (These days, Ali Hutton's piping is deeply inspired by Gordon Duncan's :)
Cheers,
Scott
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Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton as contemporary Scottish hippie bagpipers flying with Gordon Duncan? :) Kinda ...
Check it out:
Thunderstruck Bagpipe Music Ross Ainslie In Dundee Scotland
https://youtu.be/rcFpN1OBPsk
(some further piping-riffing by Ali Hutton in 2nd half here )
Ross and Ali - Pressed for Time
https://youtu.be/hWm43nfo-9s
Struck by Thunder?
Nine note wonder, :)
Scott
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Taylor Warren
Sat, Jul 4, 7:24 PM
to me
It's interesting how the guitar in that second link almost mimics the beat of the highland drums.
Once I checked myself and put my prejudice against new agey music aside, the low whistle counterpart was actually pretty neat too. I wouldn't think such a quiet mellow instrument would pair well with the phiob mhor. Great dotted notes and birls on the part of the piper there too.
I played around a bit with that recording of Green Hills. Getting an ear for highland drumming might take some practice; the syncopated beats can make one a bit unsure if they're keeping time correctly.
There's gotta be a market out there for this type of irregular metronome. I'm not much of a coder but I'll check that link out at some point.
Thanks for sending these my way.
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Taylor,
Appreciating your language and insights for some of these videos and quasi metronomes. It took me about 3 goes to find, and play with, the beat with the last 6/8 march video played by drum corp
from Scotland. (They drum faster than I usually play lovely swinging 6/8 marches - which faster tempo, played well, I think would add to a kind of elation for the listener; explore downloading BPM Tap, or BPM Counter etc., and in addition to 'marching' with your left and right feet, singing the pulse notes in each bar, try tapping your finger/hand and with one of these Apps and see what the bpm of Green Hills of Tyrol is, and compare with Bruce Wright's GHB tempos for 3/4 marches - https://scott-macleod.
Here's some innovative not quasi-metronomic Scottish(-Australian too) drumming to riff with:
Scottish Drumming - Tyler Fry and James Laughlin playing a pipe band drum solo - improvisation!
But with the syncopation, and the other Scottish drumming rhythmic aspects, of Gordon Bell's Green Hills of Tyrol, can one further 'one' with the dot-cuts, or tachums (a word from canntaireachd), between the notes (and with 16th notes, and 32nd notes +) ? ... Am exploring ~ and Stuart Liddell is an inspiration, but am also seeking to come unglued, and innovate anew, finding my own sound, with Gordon Duncan as inspiration.
Thee syncopated Scottish drummers, quasi-metronomes all, all seem to be marketing themselves quite well on the web! ~ :)
https://stevenmcwhirter.com/ (
Tyler Fry
James Laughlin
Appreciating your rhythm guitar emails - re creative idea-sharing in learning Scottish small pipes!
Might this online singing opportunity interest you or April - https://www.co-vo.com/
Musical cheers,
Scott
Scottish Drumming wiki subject at WUaS -
https://wiki.
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Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton as contemporary Scottish hippie bagpipers flying with Gordon Duncan? :)
Check it out:
Thunderstruck Bagpipe Music Ross Ainslie In Dundee Scotland
https://youtu.be/rcFpN1OBPsk
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