BagpipeLessons.com Inner Circle – 2011

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Get your pipes performance ready

Oct 31, 2011 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Competing & Performing, Equipment & Gear, Tone & Tuning, Uncategorized 8

In the months, weeks, and days leading up to any performance you will want to make sure you have fully prepared (1) yourself and (2) your instrument. Today, lets discuss what it means to have your...

Piping in Competitions: Why do it? Let’s Discuss!

Oct 25, 2011 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Competing & Performing, General Discussion 25

As part of this month's activities related to the BagpipeLessons.com Online Competition for November 2011, let's start a discussion about the pros and cons of competing. What are the benefits of...

New Exercise: Power Tachums

Oct 23, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 1

Today's exercise focuses on one of the piper's most feared note combinations: The Tachum. The tachum is generally defined as a D grace note from one note going down to the next note. Most often...

Selecting the right tunes for you

Oct 21, 2011 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Competing & Performing, Featured, General Discussion, Learning Tunes 7

As part of our activities related to next month's online competition, I thought we could start with the important but often overlooked process of selecting tunes. The first question you need to ask...

November 2011 Online Bagpipe Competition

Oct 17, 2011 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Competing & Performing, Uncategorized, Workshop 0

I'm excited to announced the third BagpipeLessons.com Online Piping Competition. And I'm hoping you'll join me for the competition and for a month of activities here on the Studio to help you take...

Canberra, Australia Concert Video: September 2011

Oct 11, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Competing & Performing, Pipers Club, Tunes, Videos 13

Here's the complete video of my recent performance in Canberra, Australia. The concert was part of a weekend festival organized by the Canberra College of Piping and has grown to one of the biggest...

New Exercise: Power Strikes in Jig Time

Oct 07, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 0

Today's exercise focuses on strikes in jig time. Strikes are reverse grace notes. Instead of quickly lifting a finger (as in grace notes), the strike is the quick tapping or striking of a finger or...

Piping Seminar Recording (2/4 March: Edinburgh City Police Pipers)

Oct 02, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Downloads, Fingering & Technique, Learning Tunes, Practice Tips, Seminars, Tunes 2

Recently I taught at a weekend piping workshop in Canberra, Australia. Here is a 90 minute recording of the first class I taught to the intermediate piping class. The featured tune was the 2/4...