Dear Stuart,
Thank you again for a very inspiring lesson. I've recently looked at your News' web page, didn't see any upcoming Topicals, so have taken the opportunity to book another lesson with you. Would Thursday June 3 at 5pm Scotland Time work for you?
I think it's Gordon Duncan and Stuart Liddell 'sounds' - bagpiping-wise - that I'm seeking to play anew on the Scottish small pipes. How to develop my piping (extraordinarily) with Duncan's energy and your musicality and expressiveness (and your extraordinary technique too)? And how best to chart out goals re these Guidelines again - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm - items 2 &3 (and even writing them in my daily Google calendar) - and with an hour or two of practicing daily, I wonder? (I have the impression that competitions and performance have helped you structure in a focused way your daily playing remarkably, and re such goals too; n'est-ce pas?)
Here's a related blog post from spring of 2020, before 'publishing' the first edition of "Honey in the Bag" SSP album - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com:
'Grey seal: Gordon Duncan and Stuart Liddell 'sounds' - bagpiping-wise? That is 'vision' . . . "Honey in the Bag" upcoming Scottish small pipes' album * * How to help people "purr" - like a cat (neurophysiology-wise, ie in your brain / bodymind) - with my "Honey in the Bag" album, is a sound I'm heading for :)' (from ... Tuesday, March 31, 2020)
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/grey-seal-gordon-duncan-and-stuart.html
In listening to my lesson from Th May 13, 2021 again - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xDeuJtcwVu8i0ubW2sgDfey3zm5WtAEX/view - I've taken some initial salient notes from this for me below. What do you think?
So with my Light Music playing, how to potentially rerecord my Honey in the Bag album newly afire with inspiration and generating great neural pleasure - bliss even - for listeners? And can I learn this from you? (Am revisiting recordings of lessons with Connor in part for this :)
And with my upcoming Piobaireachd album (as experiment too), which tunes to play, most beautiful and melodic and lyrical to my ear - and thus fun to develop (as mainly laments), I'm asking myself? Piobaireachd is an acquired taste like single malt whiskey perhaps. (How best to listen to much Piobaireachd to find the beauties to my ear, like 'The Desperate Battle of the Birds' for me, I wonder? Thoughts?)
And here again is a favorite playing of mine of a favorite Piobaireachd composition -
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
John D Burgess
(And coming back to an old abstract and theoretical question of mine - what makes a piping tune beautiful, structurally in a sense, described in words? (eg why are the tunes on my 'Honey in the Bag' album all lovely - and to my ear too)? And what is beauty in general, philosophically, and what is beauty in piping compositions AND playing - like yours (and possibly also for a wide swath of pipers' listening - or possibly regarding a certain group too of 'classic' or 'old favorite' tunes (here are some previous EXPLORATIONS of this thinking - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/monotropa-uniflora-piobaireachd.html)
Here below are Notes from the first part of the lesson video recording which 'spoke' to me in particular.
And thank you, Stuart!
Warm regards, Scott
Regarding creating Piobaireachd albums -
4:40 I ask about learning further as favorite piece -
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
Feedback about the album I made
5:10
In terms of structure, I do make it up as I go along, and in my
... and the in the band ...
5:20
It was really just achieving small goals as they approached us ...
It's a good idea to have a structure ... everybody
dramatic, lyrical
6:20
One of my favorites would be lament for the Laird of
Lyrical
The Laird of Anapool’s Lament – Piobaireachd Society 9
Stuart Liddell plays Lament for the Laird of Anapool Piobaireachd at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2015
very dramatic piece
Lament for the Children - Piobaireachd Society book 3
Pipe Major Donald MacLeod - Tutorial
full of emotion
Melodic
In Praise of Morag - Piobaireachd Society book 1
Pipe Major Donald MacLeod
The Flame of Wrath - Piobaireachd Society book 5
Flame of Wrath for Patrick Caogach Pibroch Piobaireachd Ceòl Mór
Pipe Major Donald MacLeod
more dramatic
I appreciate you (Scott) signing up and
9:12
ways of approaching a new tune ...
10
Do you fancy playing a little of The Desperate Battle of the Birds
10:35
The beauty of music is that these great pieces you can make your own, by little subtle differences, and how you feel and hear the music yourself, so it's nice to have guides from these great players
But you know, you're trying to present music through your own feeling, again ...
11:45
living in a safe house
12:00
called the police a couple of times
14
I begin to play The Desperate Battle of the Birds
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