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Perfect GDEs

Apr 27, 2014 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 38

GDEs are a combination of gracenotes found almost everywhere in pipe tunes: jigs, reels, strathspeys, marches. Today let's do some important work on GDEs -- the foundation of many tunes. Today's...

Big or Small Grace Notes?

Apr 08, 2014 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Videos 0

A common question for pipers concerns the size of grace notes. Should your grace notes be as small as possible? As big as possible? How big should they be? You might have been told by someone "really...

New Exercise: Power Thumb Grace Notes

Feb 06, 2014 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 1

Today's post features a new exercise for developing strength, control, clarity, and consistency of thumb grace notes. Also called High A grace notes, the thumb grace note is the fourth most common...

New Exercise: Power D Taorluaths (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love D Taorluaths)

May 22, 2013 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 4

Taorluaths are an important embellishment in many pipe tunes but especially in Piobaireachd.We've previously discussed the Taorluath in detail and worked towards building strong, consistent technique...

What this puppy can teach you about keeping your hands relaxed.

May 16, 2013 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 8

One of the challenges pipers face is the need to keep our fingers and hands consistently relaxed while playing. Top players can achieve a relaxed yet strong grip, allowing for the most efficient...

Secrets of Top Pipers: Birls from Bottom Hand Notes

Apr 18, 2013 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Videos 10

A consistent and powerful birl is essential for every good piper. It can be a tricky movement to master due to the unique sequence of movements by the little finger on the bottom hand. Today's lesson...

Try these incredible finger exercises to build strength, flexibility, control and finger independence.

Mar 29, 2013 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 1

Just as professional and aspiring athletes use cross-training techniques to increase their physical performance on the playing field or court, we pipers can benefit from stretches and exercises to...

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....

A new exercise to improve accuracy and control

Feb 19, 2013 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Downloads, Exercises, Expression, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 5

Today's exercise focuses on two important factors in clean, consistent piping fingering: accuracy and control. We've previously worked on many important elements of technique, including many detailed...

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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Perfect GDEs

Big or Small Grace Notes?

New Exercise: Power Thumb Grace Notes

New Exercise: Power D Taorluaths (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love D Taorluaths)

What this puppy can teach you about keeping your hands relaxed.

Secrets of Top Pipers: Birls from Bottom Hand Notes

Try these incredible finger exercises to build strength, flexibility, control and finger independence.

Crunluath Progression Exercise

A new exercise to improve accuracy and control

Build and test your consistency with this powerful practice tool

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