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Category Archive: Community and Interactive, General Discussion

Answers to your great questions! (Open Discussion)

Answers to your great questions! (Open Discussion)

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....
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Change up your routine this week with some fun practice alternatives

Change up your routine this week with some fun practice alternatives

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...
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Build and test your consistency with this powerful practice tool

Build and test your consistency with this powerful practice tool

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...
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Twenty One Tasks for the Twenty First!

Twenty One Tasks for the Twenty First!

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....
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This might be the most important exercise you’ve ever practiced.

This might be the most important exercise you’ve ever practiced.

Aug 05, 2012 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Downloads, Exercises, Expression, Fingering & Technique, Self-Recording 6

I've taught pipers of all ages and all ability levels from around the world. One feature of bagpipe music continues to be challenge for all of us: the dot-cut. In the early stages, pipers struggle to...
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How to Practice (90 Minute Seminar)

How to Practice (90 Minute Seminar)

Jun 05, 2012 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Fingering & Technique, General Discussion, Learning Tunes, Practice Tips, Seminars, Workshop 13

Here's the complete audio recording from a seminar I taught recently in New York City. The title of the class was "How to Practice." It covers many important topics including: what is practice...
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Which tunes are you focusing on this month?

Which tunes are you focusing on this month?

Mar 07, 2012 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Learning Tunes, News & Announcements 18

What tunes are you focusing on this month? Band tunes? Solo competition tunes? Maybe you are still learning some of the classics? Maybe you are up to your ears in Piobaireachd. Whatever it is, we'd...
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On not being as good as you want to be (right now).

On not being as good as you want to be (right now).

Feb 23, 2012 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Community and Interactive, General Discussion, Videos 3

We've all been there. You want to be good. You know what it sounds like to play well, to feel comfortable, to have confidence in your playing ability, to play with ease. You also know that often...
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Answers to some great bagpipe-related questions

Answers to some great bagpipe-related questions

Feb 10, 2012 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Community and Interactive, Equipment & Gear, General Discussion, Tone & Tuning 13

I received an email from Eric K., one of my Skype students and a member of the Studio with several questions that I thought would be perfect for sharing with everyone else. Thanks, Eric! If you have...
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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Jan 01, 2012 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, General Discussion, News & Announcements 7

I would like to wish you a Happy New Year with best wishes for 2012! Thank you for being a part of the BagpipeLessons.com Studio and for your contributions to our growing online community. We have...
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