Ross Ainslie play Scottish Border Pipes

[Galliciense]

the first is a Galician song!!

[bagpipeplayer]

Anyone know the name of the first tune he plays?

[Odinpiper]

Anyone have any good advice for pipe makers for border pipes? I am thinking about ordering from Ray Sloan. Wish I could hear and see some one playing a set of Sloan border pipes. Anyone care to share helpful advice for very good border pipe makers.

[argaelus]

This is a spanish tune!!!

[MarcelGomesPan]

Does Border Pipes have a single or double chanter reed? It sounds like double or?

[MarvinKurzweil]

@MarcelGomesPan Double reed.

[Filorante]

Awesome! I find it a really interesting kind of bagpipes.

Isn't the Spanish Tune a "jota"?

[apologeticsman]

this guy could go to Nashville and make 3 grand a week just playing on the street for tips

[vajrapiper]

@apologeticsman I've done that and only got love from the brothers around the block, whitey showed no hospitality.

[ipi5hl]

at least call them Border Pipes, us Northumbrians have had enough of our identity taken by the English!

[pmbear]

Gordon's ghost was here...

[Offtofott]

Spanish or Galician song? It is not the same.

5*

[vilario]

The cultural influence is diferent,celtic.

[Saurencaerthai]

Every time I see performances like this, I just want to learn this instrument more. To anyone who is knowledgeable about this, what is the best way to start? Should I just get a GHB practice chanter and go from there?

[Klumpen0815]

@Saurencaerthai This would be a good idea, although i would start with Kitchen/Practice pipes, if you don't need simple drones a practice goose like the one from bannatyne would be a good idea.

They are all not too expensive and i personally think, playing the practice chanter without a bag is not much fun, although a learnt it that way, like most of the people.

If you mastered the standardnotes, then you can still take on the crossfingered notes on the Border pipes.

regards

[243Celticandchantey]

@Saurencaerthai , definitely start on highland pipes. from a practice chanter, to small pipes, to highland pipes or border pipes. I can't wait to get my first set of border pipes!

[barravaite]

Anyway, you can also play a major tune into minor scale or mixolidian but I think it is not the best option when you try to play the tune correctly. There are lot of galician tunes in mixolidian scale and more suitables to scottisch chanter. And, for sure, Ross and Jarlath´s CD is one of my favourite ones lately. Ross always remind me Gordon Duncan, my all-time favourite scottish piper, who also played galician gaita. Look for G# lifting two left hand fingers...

[barravaite]

Hi Joe1729, Ross is better piper than 99% piper and I am not a musician but an engineer. I think we are closer playing galician and uilleann pipes than GHB. If you want to play galician tunes in major scale you must look for cross fingering that allows play some notes in tune. I have done yet and I haven´t any problem to play galician tunes on my GHB. Last week I told to Pat Molard how I get this note. In my Hardie chanter it works really well. You can do it and not play galician tunes wrongly.

[NRamirezCR]

Amazing!!! Bravo!

[Marcblur]

If the poster has access to Ross, tell him we need A LOT MORE solo videos of him on the border pipes! Please?

[jomameso]

Very nice the galician jota played in border pipes. Is the first scotish I listen playing a tradicional spanish rithm

[BREAKDUBBER]

Pure genius!

[apologeticsman]

He's playing pipes made by Nigel Richard in Scotland. I was going to get a set, but was not sure of the mouth blown set's ability to ward off moisture.

[poopypunts]

What a player gordon duncan reincarnated. And also what a decent human being" ross yer a pure gem. love Dod.

[ScotPipingSocLondon]

@poopypunts I like Ross Anslie's tune Dod's Tartan Punk Rock Trews oot o' the Few Tunes and Mair book, div' ye get books like that oot Haddow/Pitmedden way?

[Alosnup]

Hey!!, authentic!!, god job!, when I'll grow up I'll be a player like that guy!!

;-)

[Suegelbalch]

He´s da bomb!

[AngusOnkel]

I don't think that many are better than this remarkable Young Lad with his Pipe.... Och Aye Mr Ainslee

[barravaite]

there are some note wrong: in first and third parts all G are sharp (G#) not natural. In second part happens the same with the lowest note. As this xota is a galician tune it is based on the galician gaita wich performs major scale and not mixolidian scale as great highland chanter. If you want to play these notes you must look for a cross fingering to the upper G# and only close half hole for the lower G#. This xota is bad played and Ross must know it and not only copy from Gordon Duncan.

[FrozenEMT]

lets here what you got, chief? your wrong about this as the tunings are often messed with intentinally to not evern standard or mixed tunings. Fred Morrison makes up tunigs and movements. Are you better than him two?

[apologeticsman]

piping is not about being precise and playing every note of every tune exactly as written. Piping is self expression, just as all music is supposed to be. If you want precision and boring exactness, go to the symphony.

[Offtofott]

@apologeticsman

You are quite right, that's the way it is.

[vajrapiper]

@apologeticsman especially borderpiping.

[Joe1729]

Hello, barravaite. Here's some things we can be sure of:

1) Ross Ainslie is a much better piper than you

2) He knows about the differences between Galician and Scottish border pipes

3) He was, in fact, perfectly aware of everything you said before he sat down to play

4) He decided to play it the way he did anyway.

Okay?

[barravaite]

first tune is the galician xota "Xota de Paradela" from Francisco Paradela.

Actually is more correct say "galician tune" than "spanish tune". No one in UK could admit for "Scotland the brave" that is a british tune.

[dcondo77]

Really nice job.

[hcsilgne]

cooool.;-)

[superpelikeiro]

Yes, the first tune is a galician xota: "Xota de Paradela". Congatulations ross.

[apologeticsman]

many in the no piping world confuse speed with talent. It is much more difficult to play some of the slower tunes like Scotland the Brave than it is to play some jigs and reels. Speed is often more fun, but one's grade is not determined by the speed at which one performs, but by the competency with which one executes all notes and in time.

[viperpiper1991]

Muineira De Poio / Trandeiras / Shotgun Woman / Mercedes Trujillo

[arevaci85]

i think that the tune is a galician jota

[benthehoose01]

Incredible playing Ross, absolutely incredible. Hair could do with a cut though. Fancy another trip out to NZ? Go on. All the best fur noo! Kenny.

[TheHighlandPiper]

5*****

I love this pipes!

Best regards from Germany