Thursday, February 23, 2006

SSP tutor podcast No. 2

Hello!
Welcome back! I've had some wonderful comments from people about the first podcast, so here at last is the second. I'm making a couple of alterations to the chapter one, especially the tuning of the drones. It was pointed out that the 'throbbing' of the drones gets slower not faster, so sorry!!!! That'll change!!! (Then I'll re-put the file!)

I hope you're getting used to my 'colloquial' speak. I'm going to post up some questions for you to answer for me very very soon, but to keep you going here is the next file!!!! As always, please e-mail me with feedback. Absolutely anything, from this works, to this doesn't. Even if the tutor just makes you feel good about playing, anything that springs to your mind! Please, please, please! Right, enough chatter, on with the tutor!

Enjoy!
Laters
(^_^)
Vx

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi
I'm afraid the pdf didn't make it again, some error messages inside about missing homepage (in German)

Dave Singleton

Smallpiper said...

Fixed!! I really must pay more attention to the links when I put them up!!!!! Fingers crossed!

Anonymous said...

Hi, Vicki!!

Thank you so much for making this great resource available to us!! As I stated in an earlier comment, I'm a Great Highland Bagpiper, but I just got my first set of "real" smallpipes this week, the Dunfion "Switchback" smallpipes, and I'm looking forward to learning some tunes which are different that what I normally play. I'm eagerly looking forward to each installment of your book!!

Cheers,
Kevin Palm
Grafton, OH USA

Anonymous said...

Hi Vicki,
sorry to say I still can't read the file, I think the end of the file got chopped off -- there seems to be no end of file marker in the pdf

Have a good weekend

Dave Singleton

Smallpiper said...

I've re-exported it and put it up again. I'm a mac user, so I can only guess that there is some cross platform problem when I'm making the pdfs. (note to self to remind me what I did this time - made in acrobat, opened in preview and exported back to pfd :-))

Anonymous said...

Hi again, Vicki!!

The problem might be at Dave's end, because I was able to access the PDF right after you fixed the link. I'm currently away from home, and I'm using an IBM ThinkPad laptop running Windows 2000, so it doesn't seem to be a cross-platform issue.

Cheers,
Kevin Palm

Anonymous said...

Hi Vicki,
I have tried with an XP and with w98, it gets to 460K and then stops transferring from Intralab so Inever get the end of the file.
I only have a 44kb tranfer so I can't pull the pod !!

ciao

Dave Singleton

Smallpiper said...

Ah, dial up right? Did you manage to get the others? If you send me a snail address I'll snail the audio to you. The files are very large for dialup. The pdf is around 500kb. I guess the podcast technology really isn't helpful for dialup people. I could try posting lesser quality files, but I think that the smallpipes can sound really dodgy when not recorded well, that's not to say I am recording them well, but I think it sounds ok at this quality of file. The shows are going to be broadcast on Radiobritfolk and they compress enough for dialup. That could be a better alternative? I am happy to snail CD's out though!

Anonymous said...

Hi Vicki,

Thanks, but I'll wait until my mate comes back, he's got 100mb DSL so I'll be able to pull the pod and the rest.
It is wierd though, that it loses just the end of the file -- but no the same amount is missing each time I try. It could be a time out from my supplier Post office luxembourg) to Ultralab.
The other pdf I managed, only after you moved it to homepage.mac.com/--

see ya

Dave Singleton

Smallpiper said...

aha, I've put it up in my .mac account too, so give this a go!
pdf file!

Anonymous said...

Hi Vicki,

That worked great -- first time straight through !!
It has to be a time out somewhere along the phone line --

I'll get back to you on chap3

Have fun

Dave Singleton