Hibiscus syriacus: Stuart Liddell piping lesson ~ August 18, 2021 ~ and learning, and re Piobaireachd :) * Exploring further crunluath fosgailte and crunluath braebach fingering movements (from lesson 36 from the Yellow Tutor for Piobaireachd by the College of Piping, Vol. 4)

Stuart Liddell piping lesson ~ August 18, 2021 ~ and learning, and re Piobaireachd :)

Dear Stuart,

Thanks so much for this next helpful and great piping lesson with you! Here's the recording - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PrSXd9ooB4VMjPGB4X3rBZ4E8Vul13Au/view. I'm a question asker, and American-minded somehow (apologies?) ... (and realize this may depart from Scottish modes of learning too, and hope this is ok - thank you, Stuart! ... but am also seeking to be an 'active learner'). I also think I could view your piping and Tweet, for example, with drones to the world, here -

Fancy a wee chance to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next year? Hoping to get as many pipers and drummers as possible to join us playing this wee tune. You can get all the info, including the music and how to register here;https://t.co/0vgBD4IB27 pic.twitter.com/57YNuRoHjJ
— Stuart Liddell (@PMStuartLiddell) July 10, 2021

https://twitter.com/PMStuartLiddell/status/1413859413287444483?s=20

- as coming into conversation with MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch (somehow) ... and its piping wiki schools too :) ... and per the 'conversation idea' of WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Agenda and News, and Minutes, emailings ... (which MBM is conducted loosely in the manner of Quakers/Friends - and seeking somehow to be quite democratic, or equitable-minded, too). (Thank you for this Tweet from a fan named Scott :). And brainstorming-wise, how might, with you as faculty, World Univ & Sch begin to grow and develop our Piping wiki schools (below), IT-wise (say with a Google informed music-school approach possibly), too, is another question, I'm wondering about?

Unfortunately, I couldn't hear you very well when I was trying to play the breabach crunluath movement with you, - and the delay made my playing with you more untenable. Can we find a solution to this potentially, I wonder (and even regarding somehow riffing with Piobaireachd with - way out of the box - the 1973 Allman Bros' transposed with machine learning into Piping keys, and different Piobaireachd tunes' friendly:) )?

Am very grateful for your instruction, Stuart. Can we possibly please pencil in next Wednesday even for another lesson?

(Wishing you a great performance in Aberdeenshire on Friday:!) Thank you for your extraordinary teaching, and thanks for these great and helpful lessons.

Best regards,

Scott

New 8/18/21 blog post, re writing and partly for idea-sharing :) and partly for my learning in the process of creating :)

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/hibiscus-syriacus-stuart-liddell.html

Perhaps your children will or might or could attend World Univ & Sch for high school online too (re free-to-students and highest quality) ... and somehow in combination with Fettes College for a music school and an online free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric undergraduate education for graduates of Fettes too :) Am innovating with World Univ & Sch in an ongoing way (which for some, could be kind of disruptive, yet creatively ... am a bit Gordon Duncan-minded here :))

PPS

Here are our 3 lessons ... (soon to add this most recent one here:)

Liddell, Stuart (with Scott MacLeod). 2021. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PrSXd9ooB4VMjPGB4X3rBZ4E8Vul13Au/view Scottish Small Pipes' bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, W August 18, 2021]. (see too:https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/hibiscus-syriacus-stuart-liddell.html) SF Bay Area, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/08/hibiscus-syriacus-stuart-liddell.html.

Liddell, Stuart (with Scott MacLeod). 2021. Scottish Small Pipes' bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, W June 2, 2021. W. June 2. (see too: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis.html). SF Bay Area, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis.html.

Liddell, Stuart (with Scott MacLeod). 2021. Scottish Small Pipes' bagpiping lesson with PM Stuart Liddell in Scotland, Th May 13 2021. (see too:https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/hibiscus-trionum-modesty-first-lesson.html. SF Bay Area, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/hibiscus-trionum-modesty-first-lesson.html.

PPPS

Bagpipe Tutorials: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

Great Highland Bagpipe: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe

Pibroch, Piobaireachd or Ceòl Mór: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r

Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes

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Sunday, August 15, 2021

Dear Stuart,

How are you? Greetings from the SF Bay Area after a 7 week journey from the USA west coast to SE Massachusetts back to the SF Bay Area, California.

Looking forward to a lesson with you after today Sun., Aug 15 2021 I think, when Piping Live is over; my internet connection is reliable and fairly fast again. How might Th 8/19/21 at 5pm Scotland time, or similar, work for you?

I'm writing now partly to ask about a suggestion for 'Braebach' Piobaireachd pieces to teach to a student I give online SSP lessons to, and regarding even applying The College of Piping's Yellow Book Tutor's teaching to for example, the Piobaireachd Society's books (see below.). Could you possibly please suggest a most beautiful lyrical melodious Braebach Piobaireachd which would be good for instruction too regarding an introduction to this (melody listening and feeling-wise esp - and am learning much from your listening and feeling, and not-thinking, wisdom in my recorded lessons with you in these regards),. It seems like these CoP Tutors were written to sort out the ambiguities of the oral tradition of Great Highland bagpiping and Piobaireachd even. What do you think in these regards?

And could we also explore crunluath fosgailte and crunluath braebach (lesson 36) further in my lesson with you - as well as questions about em bari and che dari (in lesson 35)? (And maybe also further riffing with Bo Diddly the Allman Bros 1973 Cow Palace concert - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - following on, for ex., Gordon Duncan riffing with AC/DC, and your extraordinary playing of this) ... and on the A chanter ... and possibly riffing with other tunes with the SSP B flat and D chanters?

Thank you, and musical regards,

Scott

Taylor,

'The Cameronian Rant' is a somewhat complex tune to memorize step by step (possibly compared with The Little Spree, also known as The Little Drunkard, I just learned) - as outputting lyrical computer code even that people enjoy listening to - and interesting then regarding listening and feeling re Stuart Liddell's extraordinary Ceol Beag piping (to my ear).
Seems like in memorizing The Little Spree, there's room to grow expressively, and beauty-wise, in moving on from this version, interestingly (re listening and feeling) -
The Little Spree - Claus Reiss
https://youtu.be/-5jkEPWSJjg

AND with a comment about fosgailte tunes -

"Bravo Claus! I really enjoyed your performance. I am particularly fond of fosgailte tunes. You do this one justice."

(Am in learning mode here about 'fosgailte tunes'), and the Web is helping. :)

And again -
The Little Spree PM Donald MacLeod (tutorial) - https://youtu.be/Dp9xZ3CfLzA

Seems like there are some Scots Gaelic language of Piobaireachd recordings at the top here, newly, for learning and possibly memorization too ... :)
Many resources here including access to MacLeod AND Burgess recordings -https://www.altpibroch.com/ps230/

(but both of these Donald MacLeod and John D Burgess recordings, and others too here, seem like they're not working anymore, and don't even appear available in Archive.org! ... maybe there findable in other ways, eg by my asking Stuart)

Will reach out to Stuart about connecting further the CoP Piobaireachd Yellow Tutor Vol 4 with a specific Crunluath Braebach Piobaireachds, and ask him further regarding connecting the CoP Piobaireachd Yellow Tutor on the Crunluath Fosgailte movement and connecting it to The Little Spree ... as well as memorizing newly the Cantaireachd movements in Lesson 35 the Yellow Tutor ... and listening and feeling ... and how these CoP Tutors seem like they were written to sort out the ambiguities of the oral tradition of Great Highland bagpiping and Piobaireachd even (post the Piobaireachd Society Books being begun in the 1920s and 1930s for example).

Thanks, and musical cheers,
Scott

- Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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The Little Spree (Piobaireachd)

W, August 18, 2021

Scott

Sorry about the lack of journal updates these last few days. I've continued to work on memorizing the canntaireachd and tunes for the variants and taourluachs. It's actually a great way to actually memorize canntaireachd in itself, and is perhaps a bit less tedious than just trying to memorize the scales by themselves. I may be able to play the tune without music in front of me tomorrow, but I'm not so sure about singing canntaireachd with no sheet music.

Tonight I'll focus on memorizing canntaireachd first and foremost, then spend time working on the triplets in the taourluaths.

PS, I found my practice chanter! Maybe we can fiddle with it a bit tomorrow.

Other piobaireachds that might be fun to explore that I've been listening to are the Lament for the Iolaire and Flame of Wrath for Patrick Caogach.

See you tomorrow!

Taylor

Great, Taylor,

Do you have the Kilberry book?

Am wondering too about heading in the direction, Piobaireachd-wise, of learning a crunluath braebach tune - somehow for comparison even, per Lesson 36 in the CoP Tutor. And Stuart has mentioned 3, of which I think Corienessan's Salute would be a great introduction. It's the 2nd tune in the Kilberry book, and I could photograph and send it along if helpful. But let's talk further about these Piobaireachd you mentioned and others :)

A fun focusing daily playing-journal for memorizing too can be a big help, and re http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm.

Looking forward to hearing your Cantaireachd and Piobaireachd of The Little Spree tomorrow, at 5pm Pacific!

Cheers,

Scott

Found some initial video recordings of the breabach Piobaireachds Stuart mentioned -

Corrienessan's Salute

2016 Robert Watt Corrienessan's Salute Pibroch FIL Lorient

https://youtu.be/ldsgdfrZn1U

Neil Clark - Falkirk Piping

Corrienessans' Salute, for Lou

https://youtu.be/7Usq2AJOuQ4

Sir James MacDonald of the Isles' Lament