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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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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