ViperPiper's Bagpipe Tunes

Hi all wrote this is memory of a great piper that was in my band.
It's a lively piece don't worry

Tell me your thoughts ...
Cheers
Ben McLaughlin

I really like this!!!!!

You've composed a great hornpipe. It leaves a con trail. By gum I think I'll learn it.

A couple of high G graces from high A and high G to fix--but hey that's a proof reading matter.

Hope to see more of your tunes.

Thanks,
-David.

Hi guys thanks for your positive responses, it does a composer good when he see's that someone likes what he is doing!

Cheers

BRILLIANT!!!!..... you can hear some great influences blended in the tune...Mathieson,Terry Lee,Chris Armstrong.....All come together to make a very enjoyable tune.....and hopefully not your only submission to these forums.....Thanks for sharing it!

I have to say, GREAT PIECE!!! I loved it. As a younger piper, I greatly enjoyed the more upbeat tempo and pulse that it took. It is an awesome song!!!

I really like your tune. It has a very unique rythm.

Great sounding tune, with a challenging difficulty to start with! Sounds great when it all comes together. Keep up the great work!

Hi all!
Thanks for your very kind words.

HOWEVER -
I am annoyed to report that the first part of the tune is very similar, if not the same as another hornpipe I know . I never realised at the time because the music was flowing out of me onto the paper, so sorry guys but I can only take credit for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th parts.

Cheers

Happens all the time--even browsing through big published collections one can see parts and phrases repeated among tunes, and a lot of use of the word composer where the word arranger might be better spent. In the "organized" folk music world, including 18th & 19th century Scotland, there used to be public battles over the source of lyrics and melodies.

I once composed a beautiful, flowing slow air, which turned out to be a Negro Spiritual, which itself had roots in an old Welsh folk tune--both from genres which I love very much. And ten there's the time I composed "Bringing in the Sheeves," which some 19th century character had the nerve to plagarize out from under my corner of the space-time continuum!

It is still a nice tune, and your mark is upon it. Like a prominent US piping authority once said (and I paraphrase), "there's only nine notes, for G-d's sake, you try composing a completely original tune."

-David.

As David so ELOQUENTLY said......The tune has its own merits....Don't let a similar tune pattern or phrasing deter you in your efforts!....Keep them coming!

!!!!!!AMAZING!!!!!!

one of the best tunes ive heard yet!!!

WHAT MORE CAN I SAY, THE TUNE IS AWSOME INFACT SIR ITS GOING TO BE MY HORNPIPE IN MY JIG HORNPIPE SOLO,S, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF YOUR TUNES, THANKYOU AND WELL DONE, GORD

A Very Good Tune. I like it very much!