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Crunluath-a-mach Progression Exercise

Sep 16, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Featured, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 4

Today's featured exercise is the Crunluath-a-mach Progression Exercise. The Crunluath-a-mach is an exciting embellishment found at the end of some Piobaireachd tunes. It is quite fast and...

In-Depth Analysis of a New Tune: Highland Wedding (2/4 March)

Sep 14, 2011 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Downloads, Featured, Learning Tunes, Tune Workshop, Tunes, Videos 3

Today's featured tune is the classic six-parted (!) 2/4 march: Highland Wedding. You can download the sheet music for Highland Wedding. Print yourself at least two copies. Here's a video of the SFU...

Featured Piper of the Day: Reed Lancaster

Aug 07, 2011 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Competing & Performing, Share Recordings, Uncategorized, Videos 2

Today, let's meet our third Featured Piper of the Day: Reed Lancaster of Seattle, USA. Reed has been piping for over 5 years, he's a multi-instrumentalist, martial artist, and a police detective....

Power Edres

Aug 03, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Featured, Fingering & Technique 2

Download today's featured exercise: Power Edres. This brand new exercise follows the same 8-4-2-1 pattern as the other exercises in the Power series. Edres are most commonly found in Piobaireachd,...

Featured Piper of the Day: Bill Urquhart

Jul 26, 2011 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Competing & Performing, Share Recordings, Uncategorized, Videos 0

Following the past week of posts about self-recording with video, today we have out second Featured Piper of the Day: Bill Urquhart of Ketchikan, Alaska, USA. In January, Bill entered the first...

Studio Master Class: P/M Donald MacLean of Lewis (6/8 March)

Jul 14, 2011 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, General Discussion, Learning Tunes, Self-Recording, Share Recordings, Tune Workshop, Videos 18

Bill Peters of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada is our first participant for the BagpipeLessons.com Studio Master Class. The concept of the Master Class has been around for generations. It is similar to...

Leumluaths vs. Grips: What’s the difference?

Jul 09, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 0

So what's the difference between a grip and leumluath? Is there a difference? A grip is a low G based movement, played from any note to any note. It's very similar to the Taorluath. In fact, the grip...

Survey: What are you favorite bagpipe-related gadgets?

Jul 07, 2011 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Equipment & Gear, General Discussion, Practice Tips 34

We all have bits of equipment that make our piping lives easier. What do you use that you couldn't live without? What are your favorite piping-related gadgets? Suggested items might include:...