Red-shouldered hawk: Bagpiping - "Stuart Liddell Live Part 2 - Celtic Thanksgiving 2016" * Style-wise, Scottish v Irish session-music? . . . "While both Irish and Scottish music are melodic at heart, Scottish music seems more straight-ahead and rhythm-driven; Irish music more punctuated with ornamental trills and grace notes. ... " * :) What do you think ? Is Stuart's listening and feeling to his own piping (and his audience too perhaps) creating or generating this expression of (transforming) serenity in his face? (And regarding questions too of eliciting 'loving bliss' neurophysiology brain chemistry naturally even ?

Hi Taylor,

How are you? I hope this finds you well. Glad to write that it seems like I've gotten a reliable wifi connection - and for video, having streamed a WUaS News & Q&A successfully over it for the first time in a Google Meet

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(https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1419711822534516744?s=19). That written, the wifi can also break up sometimes here.

But I'm thinking it will be reliable enough for Thursday evening. Are you up for that - & at 7pm?

Perfect drones throughout:

Stuart listens so amazingly to his drones (per his slides too) - He's kind of one with them :)

Stuart Liddell -

A Celtic Thanksgiving (2016)

https://youtu.be/mTfP9uZSPdA

See you Thursday I hope.

Cheers, Scott

Checking in re: Thursday. Still available?

Here’s a typical reel tune set the session plays (played by a different session). This is roughly the tempo the Auburn group plays:

https://youtu.be/j0mUQcpLTHk

We have Humors of Tulla in the Patrick McLaurin collection but I can’t find Sally Gardens…

Here’s another fun jig played on Uillean pipes, Snug in the Blanket:

https://youtu.be/FwkLw9QeO2s

Seems a bit more rounded than the highland style.

I’ll keep listening.

See you soon!

Hi, Taylor,

Thanks for the great session music - https://youtu.be/j0mUQcpLTHk - with their good transitions -

001 Sally Gardens

2:21 Silver Spear

4:38 Tulla

Explore playing your small pipes with this Youtube - and SSP chanter key exploration-wise too?

Liking the group dynamics, the sound, and the variety of instruments too ... and the sociality and integration regarding weaving all their musical lines or voices together ...

Style-wise, Scottish v Irish session-music? ... rounded yes for Irish music ... & also searched on "irish vs scottish session music - sound & style difference"

"While both Irish and Scottish music are melodic at heart, Scottish music seems more straight-ahead and rhythm-driven; Irish music more punctuated with ornamental trills and grace notes. ... But making room for these trills tends actually to slow Irish tempos. "The difference is not that obvious to the listener," he says"
http://scottalarik.com/index.php?page=stories&category=01--Featured_Stories&archives=show&display=14

I might add to the above that Scottish grace notes add their own different dynamic to 'session music' - and how far further could we go into characterizing these musics' differences and similarities for further musical playing, learning, and explorations?

... Getting car work done in Pgh today ... so, about a lesson again tomorrow evening, - while Chicago is 7 hours away, ... and 10 hours away would be half way from Chicago IL to St. Paul MN, I may seek to find a way to meet, while on the road, and 8 or 9 hours west of Pgh ... please let me get back to you ... I'll seek to make this happen, if possible ... but am not sure if I can find a WiFi connection and space to give a lesson tomorrow Th 8/5/21 at 7pm ET

Regarding piping as a meditation, and listening and feeling to one's bagpipe chanter and drones, per Stuart Liddell, I find the expression on Stuart's face here great -

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1419829432722894851?s=20

And here's the whole Tweet ...

Stuart Liddell - piper extraordinaire - appreciating the expression of wholeness or serenity after piping in his face in photo at the end of this video

https://youtu.be/e7zvKbl1R54 (Piping Live - Lunchtime Recital 2010 - 4 of 8)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe
@WorldUnivAndSch

@TheOpenBand
~

Stuart Liddell - piper extraordinaire - appreciating the expression of wholeness or serenity after piping in his face in photo at the end of this video https://t.co/oCgVszKalo (Piping Live - Lunchtime Recital 2010 - 4 of 8)https://t.co/8tjCgMgcf5 @WorldUnivAndSch @TheOpenBand ~ pic.twitter.com/rNRIJawJuj
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) July 27, 2021

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1419829432722894851?s=20

:) What do you think ? Is Stuart's listening and feeling to his own piping (and his audience too perhaps) creating or generating this expression of (transforming) serenity in his face? (And regarding questions too of eliciting 'loving bliss' neurophysiology brain chemistry naturally even - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) - http://scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm & http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/neurophysiology ?) ... And is Stuart eliciting serenity or wholeness differentially from eliciting loving bliss - emotions-wise - and how could one explore this further for a range of great feelings ... and via listening too ... and per his teaching as well? :)

Cheers,

Scott

My two lessons in video recording with Stuart Liddell are here -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - in some of these regards.

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping

http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

Piobaireachd ?

Is there an opportunity to head from PM Donald MacLeod's beautiful lyrical Cantairreachd singing to playing Piobaireachd or Ceol Mor as extraordinarily as Stuart Liddell plays light music or Ceol Beag ... and by learning from Stuart's thinking (re non-thinking:) about playing bagpipe music :)?

(While I think Stuart advocates getting rid of using sheet music, even as (a kind of blocking technology of sorts) - by memorizing the piping music - and thus eliminating an intermediary between one's music-making and free natural expression in music-making, I don't think he's advocating eliminating bagpiping on BAGPIPES themselves too, :) regarding another intermediary between making music freely ... :) ... and by the same token, one could potentially make as extraordinary music as Stuart playing Ceol Beag on bagpipes BY reading sheet music too ... I'd posit, philosophically, or thinking-wise :) ... just saying that Stuart's music making is extraordinary ... still haven't come into conversation with him about riffing for example with -

AAA

https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - post Gordon Duncan's AC DC and rock and roll energy bagpiping explorations :)

The Little Spree, if I can find a WiFi signal with workable physical space, on Thursday?

Scott

But I come back to these Guidelines - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm - and regarding not being a robot, but also learning from great teaching ...

"10 Think for yourself.

Don’t become a robot, but don’t dismiss what you’re taught."

Cheers, Scott

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