BagpipeLessons.com Inner Circle – 2014

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Perfect GDEs

Apr 27, 2014 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 38

GDEs are a combination of gracenotes found almost everywhere in pipe tunes: jigs, reels, strathspeys, marches. Today let's do some important work on GDEs -- the foundation of many tunes. Today's...

Video Lesson Exchange: Two Tunes

Apr 21, 2014 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Tunes, Video Lesson Exchange, Videos 3

Today's post features two tunes played by two different pipers: Donald MacLean's Farewell to Oban (2/4 March) and The Banjo Breakdown (jig). So, have a listen to these tunes and join the discussion....

MacArthur-MacGregor Available

Apr 20, 2014 J. David Hester Member Posts 5

MacArthur-MacGregor now available to anyone interested: altpibroch.com!

Famous Pipers: Dr. John McAskill

Apr 14, 2014 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Videos 3

Today's post features several videos of famous piper Dr. John McAskill. Dr. McAskill is perhaps most known today for his composition Lexy McAskill — a very well-known four-parted reel.

Big or Small Grace Notes?

Apr 08, 2014 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Videos 0

A common question for pipers concerns the size of grace notes. Should your grace notes be as small as possible? As big as possible? How big should they be? You might have been told by someone "really...

Rare recording of the legendary Captain John A. MacLellan discovered!

Apr 03, 2014 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Competing & Performing, Piobaireachd, Videos 1

Today's post features a newly discovered recording of the legendary piper Captain John A. MacLellan M.B.E. The recording was made by young piper Eric Bremner who was present at Captain MacLellan's...