BagpipeLessons.com Inner Circle – 2011

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Find published sources for tunes

Jun 12, 2011 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Learning Tunes, Tunes 2

Here's a great online resource for finding published sources for tunes. Check it out: Ceolas Tune Index Search Just type in your keywords and see what comes up. The index contains most of the...

Discover the hidden patterns in your tunes. (New tune: Cullen Bay)

Jun 10, 2011 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Downloads, Learning Tunes, Tune Workshop, Tunes, Videos 10

Ask any piper if they know a tune in the 5/4 time signature. If they do, it is probably Cullen Bay. (It's the only tune I know of in that time signature.) The creation of Cullen Bay is somewhat of...

First Results for the Spring 2011 BagpipeLessons.com Online Piping Competition

Jun 08, 2011 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Competing & Performing, Videos 0

Over on the BagpipeLessons.com Blog, I've posted the first results from the Spring 2011 Online Piping Competition. http://bagpipelessons.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-results-for-spring-2011.html Back...

BagpipeLessons.com Studio Workshop: Perfect Doublings Revisited

Jun 06, 2011 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Self-Recording, Workshop 6

Today's focus: perfect doublings. It is an important topic, and an area where greater control and consistency will help you bring our the music your tunes. Today's goal is to work on making your...

Get your hands warmed up and ready to play in 2 minutes

Jun 04, 2011 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Featured, Practice Tips, Videos 3

When you first pick up your chanter or pipes, it can take a few minutes to get the hands warmed up and working. A while back we looked at some simple stretches for your hands, today's video is a...

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