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Discussion: Which exercises do you practice most often?

Dec 20, 2015 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Exercises, Practice Tips 15

Pipers know that the secret to clean, consistent, confident finger execution requires regular practice on a variety of exercises. What exercises do you practice regularly? Do you have a regular/daily...

Ezeedrone Reeds vs. New Increased Absorption Reeds (HD Video)

Dec 15, 2015 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Equipment & Gear, Tone & Tuning, Videos 2

You've probably played or at least heard of Ezeedrone brand drone reeds. They are the most popular and best-selling drone reeds of all-time. The reeds are reasonably priced, come standard with many...

Slan Fuive

Dec 08, 2015 J. David Hester Piobaireachd 0

I will be working my way through a number of Campbell Canntaireachd pieces that were not notated prior to the wave of secondary literature that came post Angus MacKay. The first up is Slan Fuive. (To...

The solution to the mysterious curse of the short B.

Dec 05, 2015 Jori Chisholm Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 4

The nine notes of the standard bagpipe scale gives us 81 possible two note combinations. Add in a third note and we have 729 possible three-note combinations. But some of these combinations are...

Getting the most out of your practice

Dec 01, 2015 Jori Chisholm General Discussion, Practice Tips 18

The National Piping Centre in Glasgow is one of the most well-known institutions of piping in Scotland. Piping Today Magazine is the Centre's flagship publication. I've written the teaching column...

Dr. Simon McKerrell: Some notes on the bagpipes (Part 4)

Nov 17, 2015 Simon McKerrell Fingering & Technique, General Discussion, Piobaireachd, Special Guest, Tunes 1

Today’s post comes from our newest BagpipeLessons.com Studio contributor Dr. Simon McKerrell — piper, composer, and professor. For more about Dr. McKerrell, scroll down to read his piping bio....

Up close with Matthew Welch: Sheepskin bags, cane drone reeds, piping in academia, bagpipe jazz, Balinese gamelan, finding your true musical voice, and more . . .

Nov 12, 2015 Matthew Welch Community and Interactive, Competing & Performing, Equipment & Gear, Expression, Fingering & Technique, Tone & Tuning, Videos 1

In today's post, we have an in-depth interview with our newest guest writer and one of the piping world's most fascinating people, Matthew Welch. Matt has an incredible combination of experience and...