Today's exercise focuses on one of the piper's most feared note combinations: The Tachum. The tachum is generally defined as a D grace note from one note going down to the next note. Most often...
As part of our activities related to next month's online competition, I thought we could start with the important but often overlooked process of selecting tunes. The first question you need to ask...
I'm excited to announced the third BagpipeLessons.com Online Piping Competition. And I'm hoping you'll join me for the competition and for a month of activities here on the Studio to help you take...
Here's the complete video of my recent performance in Canberra, Australia. The concert was part of a weekend festival organized by the Canberra College of Piping and has grown to one of the biggest...
Today's exercise focuses on strikes in jig time. Strikes are reverse grace notes. Instead of quickly lifting a finger (as in grace notes), the strike is the quick tapping or striking of a finger or...
Today's exercise focuses on Doublings from High A and High G. Previously, we've discussed the perfect doubling and we've worked on getting clean, strong, and rhythmically consistent doublings....
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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