Pipe Tune: Lament for the Lone Piper

No. 6 The Lament for the Lone Piper in A
No. 6 The Lament for the Lone Piper in D
Dots in A
Dots in D

Hello!
Here is the next smallpiper podcast tune! I hope that it's ok! I was really chuffed with the reaction of the ensemble of the last tune so I thought I'd try it again. I wrote this tune a few years ago and wrote a part for string quartet. I thought it would be nice to record those parts, however, it might have seemed like a good idea at the time, it was really hard to do. I'm not really sure that I should put up this tune, but I did do it and I don't think I could face re-doing the parts again, so here it is anyway! Please be gentle with me! I think I need to dust of the bass a bit more and practise the parts a bit instead of just sightreading it straight away. Doh! The transfer to D worked by the skin of it's teeth, it's kind of ok. Sigh. I think I was too tired really and should have left it until after the weekend, but it's ok! I also wanted to try to record a tune that is from our new album (not released yet, but pretty close). It's hard to do some of our tunes because I have three extra notes to most pipes, so I have to avoid those tunes, which is most of them! I think though I'll arrange some so that they can be played and then cast them!

I mention in the podcast about the festival podcast that I'm going to make at the weekend. There's a link on the side of this podcast leading to it, it'll show up when I've posted the cast, hopefully early next week.

Thanks again for listening and reading all of this waffle!
laters
:)
Vicki

Pipe Tune: No. 5 - The Race for Home

No. 5 The Race for Home in A
No. 5 The Race for Home in D
Dots in A
Dots in D

Hello!
At last here is the next podcast. (I've been away on holiday, so sorry for the delay in getting this one out!) I also had microphone trauma, so I used a different computer to get this one down! I hope that I have all the links correct first time. Shout if I haven't! This is a pipe tune again and I have included both a D and A version. I cheated on the D though, I recorded the whole lot in A and then used the computer to transpose up to A, so my apologies if it doesn't sound quite the same quality and that my voice in the count ins sounds like I'm on helium. I spent quite a lot of time recording extra parts and really couldn't face re-doing the entire thing in D. I improvised a flute part and bass part and it was getting late, so I hope that the D version is ok! I've included a break down of all the parts in my website too. NOw that I've done three pipe tunes I'm going to snail mail copies out to people not on broadband. Thanks for the heads up about the drum beat, not sure what came over me there! You're right, it didn't fit the melodic structure at all! Hey ho! So no loops at all this week, just me, me, me, me and me. (tee hee). I hope it's ok!
I look forward to hearing from you!
:)
Vicki