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Technical Elements

Feb 14, 2014 J. David Hester Fingering & Technique 0

Power Thumb Gracenotes Power D Taorluaths Strathspey Triplets Revisiting: Strasthspey Triplets GDEs Perfect GDEs Revisiting Perfect GDEs Dot-Cut Fluidity New expanded and updated Dot-Cut Fluidity...

Tunes: Lessons, Video Exchanges

Feb 13, 2014 J. David Hester Tunes 0

Some of the tunes we've reviewed at the site.

What is “scissoring” and how can you avoid it?

Feb 12, 2014 Jori Chisholm Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 6

In the earliest stages of your piping journey, you first learned the nine notes of the bagpipe scale. Then you probably were introduced to simple grace notes: first played on the same note, and then...

New Exercise: Power Thumb Grace Notes

Feb 06, 2014 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 1

Today's post features a new exercise for developing strength, control, clarity, and consistency of thumb grace notes. Also called High A grace notes, the thumb grace note is the fourth most common...

Winning Gold in Kansas City (Recordings)

Jan 16, 2014 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Competing & Performing, Piobaireachd 11

I'm back from my trip once again to Kansas City for the annual Midwest Highland Arts Fund Winter Storm weekend of competitions. Today's post features audio recordings from my three competition...

Happy New Year!

Jan 02, 2014 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, General Discussion, News & Announcements 5

Happy New Year and all the best for 2014! (Can you believe it is 2014!?!?) Thank you for being a part of the BagpipeLessons.com Studio. As the the Studio continues to expand in membership and...

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