BagpipeLessons.com Inner Circle – 2012

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Close up with the Scottish Small Pipes

Jan 25, 2012 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Equipment & Gear, Tunes, Videos 6

I've enjoyed my small pipes as a different way to play, with a different sound but using all of the same skills I've practiced on my Highland pipes. Here's a few tunes you may have heard before and a...

The New, Expanded & Updated Dot-Cut Fluidity Exercise

Jan 22, 2012 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Downloads, Exercises, Expression, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 9

The dot-cut rhythmic pattern comes up constantly in pipe music. It's been featured here in the Inner Circle several times (in a lesson called The Dot-Cut and in several other posts) and most...

BagpipeLessons.com featured on the front page of the New York Times!

Jan 15, 2012 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, News & Announcements 1

I have very exciting news to share. The New York Times has a front-page feature today about online music lessons, featuring BagpipeLessons.com. The newspaper's website even included a short video...

New Tune: Susan MacLeod (Strathspey)

Jan 08, 2012 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Expression, Learning Tunes, Tunes 4

To follow up on our recent discussion of the Darado, let's take a look at the four-parted competition-style strathspey Susan MacLeod. A few years ago, I was asked by Pipes|Drums magazine to be a...

The fourteenth embellishment: The Darado or Bubbly Note

Jan 04, 2012 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Exercises, Featured, Fingering & Technique 10

The number of notes and embellishments we use in pipes tunes is quite limited. We have: 9 notes grace notes and strikes 9 doublings (one for each note) 4 bottom hand, Low G based movements: grip,...

Happy New Year!

Jan 01, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, General Discussion, News & Announcements 7

I would like to wish you a Happy New Year with best wishes for 2012! Thank you for being a part of the BagpipeLessons.com Studio and for your contributions to our growing online community. We have...