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Making Your Pipes Easy to Play

Apr 29, 2013 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Tone & Tuning, Videos 21

When you watch a top piper, they make it look so easy. Brilliant, rich tone, sparkling, clear technique, and masterful expression. A mark of the true professional is how they perform with such ease...

Secrets of Top Pipers: Birls from Bottom Hand Notes

Apr 18, 2013 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Videos 10

A consistent and powerful birl is essential for every good piper. It can be a tricky movement to master due to the unique sequence of movements by the little finger on the bottom hand. Today's lesson...

One of the greatest MSRs you’ll ever hear.

Apr 14, 2013 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Competing & Performing, Learning Tunes, Tunes 8

One of my favorite piping days of the year is the first evening of the Northern Meeting Piping Competitions at Inverness. The world's greatest pipers grace the Eden Court Theatre stage to play one of...

Selecting and Adjusting Pipe Chanter Reeds

Apr 05, 2013 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Featured, Special Offers, Tone & Tuning, Videos 46

Today's focus: Selecting and Adjusting Pipe Chanter Reeds Today's lesson includes two video demonstrations, the first on selecting a good pipe chanter reed and the second on adjusting the strength of...

Try these incredible finger exercises to build strength, flexibility, control and finger independence.

Mar 29, 2013 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 1

Just as professional and aspiring athletes use cross-training techniques to increase their physical performance on the playing field or court, we pipers can benefit from stretches and exercises to...

Learn tunes efficiently by avoiding common mistakes

Mar 21, 2013 Jori Chisholm Expression, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Tunes 5

Download the pdf of the article. A complete understanding of any tune always begins first with general principles, followed by specifics. It helps to understand not only what we want to achieve, but...

How I memorized a Piobaireachd in five minutes and still had it memorized two weeks later.

Mar 15, 2013 Jori Chisholm Learning Tunes, Piobaireachd 7

We pipers spend huge amounts of effort, focus, concentration and worry on memorizing our tunes. Unlike many other musicians, we play everything from memory. And also unlike many other musicians, we...

American Profile Magazine Cover Story

Mar 10, 2013 Jori Chisholm Uncategorized 8

Last summer I was interviewed by American Profile Magazine and I was pleased to learn that the article made the cover of this week's edition. It's staggering to think that 10 million people will be...

Crunluath Progression Exercise

Mar 01, 2013 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Featured, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 7

Here on the Studio we've featured several exercises in our Power series. Each of these exercises features the 8-4-2-1 pattern to build strength, consistency, and power in your fingering technique....

A new exercise to improve accuracy and control

Feb 19, 2013 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Downloads, Exercises, Expression, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 5

Today's exercise focuses on two important factors in clean, consistent piping fingering: accuracy and control. We've previously worked on many important elements of technique, including many detailed...

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