Help with Stuart Robertson - 6/8 march

[Tom Weithers]

You might want to look at the Grade Level Recommendations from the Alliance of North American Pipe Band Associations. The various applications of the...

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Re: Worlds 2017 Qualifying Streamed???

FYI, copied straight off the RSPBA entry form:

PLAYING CRITERIA
Grade 1 MSR...

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Re: Inveran Bagpipes

John is right. Brian Donaldson, owner of Inveran, has taken a teaching position at St. John’s Northwestern Military

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Re: RSPBA Rule Question

There is no "rule" but there are guidelines that are applicable to all major championships.
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Re: Can competitive pipers actually ENJOY bagpipe music?

You are really "complaining" that you (1) have the experience and sophisticated...

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Re: Why is the ground repeated?

With respect to repeating the ground to finish the tune, Colin MacLellan already mentioned that Seumas...

[Tom Weithers]

Re: EUSPBA - NO Ground only Piob

I don’t know where it originated, but I know when it originated and why. I was President of the...

[Tom Weithers]

Re: EUSPBA - NO Ground only Piob

I judge piobaireachd in the MWPBA so I don't have a dog in this fight.

But I would like...

[Tom Weithers]

Re: K valves

There are two different rationales for using drone valves.

If you (or your band) can do a solid strike-in 99%...

[Tom Weithers]

Re: Play music as written or not

The “classical” music that The Scottish Piper and NecroKitty are talking about comes from what is often...

[Tom Weithers]

Re: "Agogic Stress" vs. "Metric Stress"

Musical terminology is not standardized. The usage I find useful is to think...

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Re: All the good tunes "already composed" ??

Although Eddie McQuire is a "classical" composer, he also has a background...

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Re: tune structure

Alex Haddow wrote a very interesting book called "The History and Structure of Ceol Mor." In the book he analyses...

[Tom Weithers]

Re: placing in Gr3

My experience as a judge here in the MWPBA is similar to John Bottomley’s in the EUSPBA. I think the problem players...

[Tom Weithers]

I am looking for information about a 6/8 march. I have one setting of the tune from the Bicentennial Collection in which the tune is called “Stuart Robertson”...