Last week, she learned to play Thunderstruck, hence the on-campus practice session.Ĭrooks, who has already played at one event at UBC Okanagan this fall, will be the official piper at the university’s Remembrance Day ceremony on Monday, November 9. Learning to play the bagpipes has a steep learning curve and Crooks says when you stop learning, it’s time to stop playing the instrument. She progressed quickly to the bagpipes and likes the fact that it’s a unique instrument with a sound all its own. And playing the bagpipes with the Kelowna Pipe Band Society.Ĭrooks began playing the bagpipes five years ago when she was with the cadet program - her options were shooting or the band. For now, she’s content attending classes and getting good grades while she works towards her undergrad degree in science. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, has plans to major in physics and hopes to become a neurosurgeon. Crooks, a first-year student with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. This 18-year-old student isn’t your typical bagpipe player and she scoffs at any stereotypical images of the old boys club or kilted senior citizens playing wind instruments. It wasn’t so much the bagpipes that stopped people in their tracks, but more so the song Crooks plays - ACDC’s Thunderstruck. Professors and students, rushing to classes, stop, listen, and offer applause once Crooks finishes. On a cool autumnal day at UBC’s Okanagan campus, Brittany Crooks hosts a spontaneous bagpipe practice. Where: Courtyard, UBC’s Okanagan campus, Kelowna When: Monday, November 9, 10:45 to 11:30 a.m., reception to follow Who: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 26, UBC students, faculty, and staff
Check out the links below for more information.First-year student selected to play the bagpipes at official event One of my personal favorite applications of the lap steel is by Robert Randalph who uses it in a blues/rock context. We are most familiar with the lap steel from American country music as it is what we traditionally attribute that “country” sound too.
The Guzheng has been used in non-traditional ways in China as an instrument in Chinese rock groups before. The Guzheng is a traditional Chinese instrument, not unlike what we know as a lap steel here in America. Though bagpipes are a traditional instrument of Scotland, AC/DC actually used it in their rock anthem “It’s a long way to the top (if you wanna rock and roll)”. This isn’t the first time a bagpipe has been used in rock n roll. Seeing this video of “The Bad Piper” playing AC/DC’s Thunderstruck and this girl on Facebook using a Guzheng to play Guns n Roses’ Sweet Child O Mine, inspired me to investigate a little more on both instruments. I love seeing instruments being used in ways one might not expect. One of the things I love about the internet is that I can sit here in the middle of North America and watch a bagpiper in Australia blow flames out of his bagpipe! What is even more interesting to me, is hearing what might be considered a “traditional” instrument in one context, being used to play in a non-traditional context.
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