PPRP #004 Practice under the pavilion

This episode features some audio from an impromptu practice session. There is a nice little coffee shop in Longwood, FL, named Zanzibar. Behind this coffee house, and the adjacent businesses, is a covered area that the businesses use for some storage and to hold outdoor floral classes. There are some toddler toys left out there for kids at the classes so I’ll usually grab a cup of regular and hangout as Micah enjoys playing with the toys. I’ve wondered for a while how the pipes would sound under pavilion, so I took the opportunity this day to brake out my ZoomH5 and tripod and play through some older and some newer tunes I’m trying to improve. I received permission from the business owners before brought out the pipes and disturbed the peace. Everyone gave there enthusiastic ok.

This was recorded with the XY microphone the come with the Zoom H5 and a windscreen. I didn’t have any headphones, so no monitoring, and I was really just hoping it was picking up an decent sound.

You can learn a lot from listening to your playing recorded. All the wrong notes and poor tuning stands way out. What has sounded to be respectable to me while I’m playing it live, has, later upon review, been a little cringe worthy. Even recordings of the band performances illicit a bit of an eeeewwwwww. You can learn a lot from listening to your playing recorded. But hopefully its all on the road to improvement and betterment of skills. 

So here the tunes I played through for better or worse:

00:00:25 Scotland the Brave

00:01:15 Highroad to Gairloch/Terribus

00:03:00 We Honor Our Fallen

00:04:50 Green Hills of Tyrol/When the Battles Ore

00:06:50 Highland Cathedral

00:08:37 Farewell to Camraw/begging of Rowen Tree

00:09:47 Kelly the Boy from Killane/Minstrel Boy

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