Piobaireachd Tuesday

Today's piobaireachd is Corrienessan's Salute.  I'm working on this tune to replace that quintessential, extremely boring Grade IV tune: The Company's Lament.  I'm tired of playing The Company's Lament.  I kind of never want to hear it again.  Anyway, Corrienessan's Salute has a lot more going on - plus it's a kind of celebratory tune and I like it.  More on the history can be found here.  I'm playing the setting found in the Scots Guards, volume 2, which is nominally from Book 8 from the Piobaireachd Society.  The taorluath variations are played down (heavy low A's) vs. how it's written in the PS book.  (This appears to be more acceptable - see the Set Tunes commentary on Pipes|Drums, found here.)  There is also a different rhythm in the crunluath & crunluath doubling variations, which I also like much better than the PS book - I think it flows much better.


Anyhow, here's the video:

Urlar:
1.  Flubbed the rodin at the end of the first line.
2.  Misremembering tune: crossing E to F in the third line.
3.  Slowed down inexplicably in the beginning of the fourth line.

Var. I:
1.  Misremembering tune: crossing noise on B in the third line.

Var. II (doubling):
1.  Too slow going into the doubling.  Forgot where I was in the tune and then picked up pace.
2.  Several instances of misremembered themal notes leading into crossing noises.  You'll hear 'em.  Middle of first line, middle of second line, beginning and middle of third line and that pesky F that my mind wants to make an E in the fourth line.

Taorluath:
1.  Misremembered note in the first line, right at the beginning.
2.  Flubbed the rodin in the middle of the third line.
3.  Added a bizarre B strike at the end of the third line, instead of playing a clean cadence.
4.  Flubbed two taorluaths in a row in the fourth line.  UGH!

Taorluath Doubling:
1.  Misremembered themal notes throughout: end of first line, end of third line, middle of fourth line and twice in the fifth line (including the damn F).
2.  I played the end of the second line incorrectly.  It was supposed to be a themal B with a taorluath to low G.  I played it to low A.  BOO! 

Crunluath:
1.  What the HELL was I doing at the beginning there?  I flubbed the entire first phrase of the variation.  It's horrible.
2.  Tiny crossing noises in the triplet in the middle of the second line.
3.  Flubbed cadence at the end of the second line.

Crunluath Doubling:
1.  Misremembered notes: middle of second line and middle of fourth line.
2.  Forgot where I was for a moment in the middle of the triplet towards the end of the fifth line.
3.  Played wrong notes at the end of the variation.

And not on film, but happened - the flubbing of the final triplet caused me to completely lose focus and I broke down going back into the urlar.  So I cut that part out because it's not judged anyway.

Things to work on (besides cleaning up my memory): enunciate ends of parts better on the singling variations and less on the doubling variations.  Pick up pace on the doubling variations.  Make sure the 'connecting notes' in the urlar and singling variations are held the same.