May 12, 2013 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, General Discussion, News & Announcements 3
I'm excited to announce a couple of new features that will make the BagpipeLessons.com Studio more interactive and help you find useful and relevant posts quickly and easily. One of my goals with...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....Feb 10, 2013 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Community and Interactive, General Discussion 3
It is plausible that learning a musical instrument would make you more sensitive to subtleties in musical sounds such as pitch, melody, rhythm, and harmony. Certainly by learning to tune our...Feb 04, 2013 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Featured, Fingering & Technique 10
Today's lesson focuses on an important but often overlooked factor in bagpipe fingering: your bottom hand thumb position. The position of your bottom hand's thumb on the back of the chanter is...Dec 30, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, General Discussion, News & Announcements 4
Happy New Year and best wishes for 2013 from the BagpipeLessons.com Studio! Thank you for being a part of the BagpipeLessons.com Studio. Your participation and contributions help make the...Dec 18, 2012 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Community and Interactive, Featured, General Discussion, Practice Tips, Special Offers, Tone & Tuning 11
Last week, I received an email from Studio member David Hester. David was excited about some breakthroughs he'd recently made in his practicing, particularly regarding tuning and tone. I asked if...Dec 01, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, General Discussion 34
Thank you for all of your wonderful comments on the lessons on the BagpipeLessons.com Studio. The blog-style format has proved a great way to continue the discussion and grow our online community....Nov 04, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Practice Tips 4
Who says your practice routine needs to be the same every day? Why not devise some new and interesting new ways to push your piping to the next level, learn some new things, and have fun? Even the...Oct 22, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Exercises, Featured, Practice Tips 2
Today's lesson focuses on a simple but powerful tool to help build and test your consistency. As you learn a movement, or a phrase, or a tune you first gain the ability to play it correctly once or a...Aug 21, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Exercises, Fingering & Technique, General Discussion 2
It's the 21st of August, so let's do something fun: Twenty-one for Twenty first! Here are 21 objectives for today's practice: 1. Play 21 Power GDEs from each note 2. Play 21 E Doublings from F 3....Here you’ll find hundreds of lessons, videos, audio files and more. This content is designed to help you learn and improve in every area of your piping. Not seeing a topic you’d like to learn more about?
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