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Category Archive: Community and Interactive, Equipment & Gear, Tone & Tuning

How to achieve a world-class bagpipe sound (Part 6: Steady Pressure)

How to achieve a world-class bagpipe sound (Part 6: Steady Pressure)

Sep 01, 2013 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Equipment & Gear, Tone & Tuning 9

Today's post is Part 6 of our ongoing series How to achieve a world-class bagpipe sound. It was also published in my "Sound Technique" column of the August 2013 edition of Piping Today, the former...
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Some reminders for helping you achieve excellence.

Some reminders for helping you achieve excellence.

Jun 15, 2013 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Community and Interactive, General Discussion, Practice Tips 0

I recently came across this great blog post, with some helpful reminders for staying focused and motivated to work towards achieving excellence.  Author Erik Barker's blog has the tagline "I want to...
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Your BagpipeLessons.com Studio — more interactive than ever!

Your BagpipeLessons.com Studio — more interactive than ever!

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...
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Crunluath Progression Exercise

Crunluath Progression Exercise

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....
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Research suggests that playing the pipes might make you more emotionally sensitive

Research suggests that playing the pipes might make you more emotionally sensitive

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...
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Find the perfect position for your thumb

Find the perfect position for your thumb

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...
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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

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...
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The secret to good sound.

The secret to good sound.

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...
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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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