Eb Reels - Trad / The Hawk / Moving Cloud

[@KyleHowie]

This track pops up on my suggestions every now and again, it’s equally as brilliant every time! 🤯

[@davelow7586]

Superb, just absolutely superb. Thanks. 😊

[@pocopiper]

Nice playing there Matt!

[@pipertripp]

loves me some Moving Cloud. This was a great set of tunes. Love the guitar support!

[@thereelpiper]

Great tunes, thank you for posting .

[@RobBerube]

Love that rendition of the moving cloud!

[@slotpiper]

Wounder how many people actually got the moving cloud in the middle of the Hawk unreal smart plus brillant.

[@griessh]

I'm so excited that Michelle Steward pointed us over here. Great music to get a day started.

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Thanks Werner!

[@sebastianmacduck2222]

I love the MOVING CLOUD, I learn it in the german Piping Winter School at Brüggen. It is very difficult to play.

[@richardking1067]

brilliant as usual

[@thomasderidder3664]

Another great video! I enjoyed it a lot. Looking forward to your next video (Y)

[@glennmacdonald5475]

Brilliant! Now to get the sheet music?

[@Piperbergen]

Love it man. Playing the reels in more of an irish style. Not out of place in a good irish trad session. Fantastic!

[@Piper1Charlie]

Just plain Fantastic.

[@picopanpipe9]

Hey Matt, really love your playing. You have a very musical way with the tunes. Looking forward to hearing you more this year!

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Thanks Oscar!

[@erniescullion8452]

Good. I enjoyed Vale of Atholl playing Hawk. Shotts 1989 Power of Scotland1989 9as they was known from 1989..

[@williamswhistlepipes]

Great nice bright happy music well put together by a accomplished musician .I enjoyed it.

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Thanks very much!

[@erwankerbeneuc5493]

Extraordinaire! Encore plus de morceaux s'il vous plaît!

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Merci beaucoup!

[@scottcurrieltd]

Love it!

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Thanks Scott!

[@McSherryStudioArt]

That was mighty!

[@pipermwm]

Very nice. Also love the practice chanter, c/w modified sole to keep it from rolling off the table. Cheers!

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Haha! Mike, that's exactly what it does.

[@r88crgtube]

Would love to hear the changer and some banjo, little banjo breakdown? Awesome vids!

[@terryandbuffy]

I'm loving the variation at 2:00

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

It's called foreshadowing, Terry! Ha

[@sebastianmacduck2222]

Hallo matt, würdest du für uns das Set auch auf der Great Higland Bagpipe spielen? Ich würde mich sehr freuen.

[@ripcord1969]

I would like this as a ring tone on my blackberry .. any chance i can get a recording?

[@j.ptomba2542]

Could you make a video of this on real pipes? It's a great set!

[@colinstewart6367]

..that sytle of piping has an internal magic..only known to the few.....

[@danielwarner8375]

What is that instrument? Please tell me?!

[@thefabuloussporcu317]

Practice chanter, its like smaller more practible version of the highland bagpipes

[@diegobac5067]

hey! could you please e-mail me a copy for the moving cloud sheet music?

[@michaeljking]

great sound, what practice chanter make are you using?

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Better late than never...! It's a John Walsh long blackwood chanter with a good (unintentional) warp in it and a broken sole.

[@j.ptomba2542]

Is the first thing you play part of the hawk? because I can't find the music for it?

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Hi JP - no it's called Becky Ewen, a 2-part pipe reel

[@j.ptomba2542]

@@MattMacIsaacMusic Thanks Matt! This is my new favorite set!

[@j.ptomba2542]

Where can I find the music for The Hawk?

[@rubysmithmusic2876]

J.P Tomba it’s on the session :)

[@alexmonaghan9073]

Nice! Slightly disturbed by the guitar dissonances around 1:12, probably more foreshadowing I guess, but the rest is sublime. What's special about the chanter?

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Haha! Yes, any dissonance is completely intentional... Nothing special about the chanter, it's a standard John Walsh long blackwood practice chanter. It's just the only thing I could use at the time, as I lived in a condo building. Cheers - Matt.

[@forconi86]

Any chance to know where i can find these scores of theset tunes??

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Hi Lorenzo - I am working on setting these videos to sheet music and I'll let you know when it's done!

[@flannerymusic]

I'm also interested ;)

[@laez1309]

@@MattMacIsaacMusicWhere can I find the sheet music to Becky Ewen?

[@Tortak39]

How are you getting your birls like that !?

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Hi John Smith, the cliché answer is practice - but the more specific answer is playing them very slowly, brushing your birl finger down to make a Low G, and pulling it back over to make another Low G. Really, even though it sounds obvious, it's harder to do that it sounds. Doing that very slowly, over and over, for 50 - 100 reps. Gradually you add speed... very gradually! You should be able to play a birl at 10 different speeds, not just slow and fast. The real control happens in the middle 8 speeds. I hope that helps.

[@Tortak39]

Thank you for your reply! Will definitely do that!

[@balddonaldcerrone7930]

Matt MacIsaac birl?

[@hughbyrne9298]

Can anyone tell me what is the tuning of the guitar?? :)

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

Hi Hugh, it's DADGAD. Hope that helps!

[@hughbyrne9298]

@@MattMacIsaacMusic Cheers! It does indeed! Great video

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

Awesome tunes!! Way too much guitar screen time though, miss the piping fingers!!

[@biniou24]

Amazing what you can do with a practice chanter, eh !

[@VasilicaCascaval]

im totaly unable to do this circular breathing thing hahaha

[@VasilicaCascaval]

ohh shit its an electric chanter hahahahahaha

[@cillianbissett582]

It’s a real practice chanter - you can see tape on the low A hole

[@VasilicaCascaval]

the its really amazing how not to stop for breathing!!!! im a tin whistler for 2O years but i have no idea how to do this trick!!

[@MattMacIsaacMusic]

@@VasilicaCascaval It would be pretty hard to circular breath on a whistle... you need a significant amount of back pressure (resistance) to be able to do it properly, and the whistle just doesn't have it.

[@alvindurochermtl]

Write a reel and call it the Broken Chanter Sole

[@terryandbuffy]

I'm loving the variation at 1:50