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Happy New Year!

Dec 30, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, General Discussion, News & Announcements 4

Happy New Year and best wishes for 2013 from the BagpipeLessons.com Studio! Thank you for being a part of the BagpipeLessons.com Studio. Your participation and contributions help make the...

The secret to good sound.

Dec 18, 2012 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Community and Interactive, Featured, General Discussion, Practice Tips, Special Offers, Tone & Tuning 11

Last week, I received an email from Studio member David Hester. David was excited about some breakthroughs he'd recently made in his practicing, particularly regarding tuning and tone. I asked if...

Pipes up! How to get your pipes up the professional way.

Dec 07, 2012 Jori Chisholm Competing & Performing, Videos 0

In addition to the musical aspects of your performance, a professional on stage presence and presentation can accomplish two important things: it puts your audience at ease and it contributes to the...

Answers to your great questions! (Open Discussion)

Dec 01, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, General Discussion 34

Thank you for all of your wonderful comments on the lessons on the BagpipeLessons.com Studio. The blog-style format has proved a great way to continue the discussion and grow our online community....

How to warm up your pipes before performing (and what to do if you can’t warm up)

Nov 25, 2012 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Competing & Performing, Practice Tips, Tone & Tuning 12

Sometimes it seems that we pipers are constantly warming up. Warming up the fingers, warming up the drones, going over our tunes, etc. Other musicians seem to be able to pick up their instrument and...

Get Yourself and Your Pipes Ready for Playing Outside in Cold Weather

Nov 11, 2012 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Competing & Performing, Tone & Tuning, Videos 14

The pipes were designed to be played outdoors. And even though most of us live in cities or climates where we play inside most of the time, one of life's great pleasures is to play the pipes in one...

Change up your routine this week with some fun practice alternatives

Nov 04, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Practice Tips 4

Who says your practice routine needs to be the same every day? Why not devise some new and interesting new ways to push your piping to the next level, learn some new things, and have fun? Even the...

A Weekend with Master Galician Piper Carlos Núñez

Oct 31, 2012 Jori Chisholm Competing & Performing, Learning Tunes, Tunes, Uncategorized, Videos 6

I recently had the exciting opportunity to perform two concerts with superstar Galician piper Carlos Núñez. Carlos has the distinction of being the only piper to sell over one million records. He's...

Build and test your consistency with this powerful practice tool

Oct 22, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Exercises, Featured, Practice Tips 2

Today's lesson focuses on a simple but powerful tool to help build and test your consistency. As you learn a movement, or a phrase, or a tune you first gain the ability to play it correctly once or a...

The bagpipe scale vs. equal temperament

Oct 16, 2012 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Best of the Internet, Tone & Tuning, Uncategorized 7

We previously discussed how to use accurately and reliably tune the notes of your pipe chanter. However, the bagpipe scale is different than the scale used by "normal" Western instruments so you...

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