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Leumluaths vs. Grips: What’s the difference?

Jul 09, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 0

So what's the difference between a grip and leumluath? Is there a difference? A grip is a low G based movement, played from any note to any note. It's very similar to the Taorluath. In fact, the grip...

Technique Week: Day 5: Power Birls

Jul 01, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 11

Download today's featured exercise: Power Birls. This brand new exercise follows the same 8-4-2-1 pattern as the other exercises in the Power series.

Technique Week: Day 4: Power D Throws

Jun 30, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 13

Today's featured exercise: Power D Throws. The exercise follows the same 8-4-2-1 pattern as the other exercises in the Power series.

Technique Week: Day 3: Power Taorluaths

Jun 29, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 2

Today's featured exercise: Power Taorluaths. If you've played the other exercises in our exclusive Power series, you'll be familiar with the 8-4-2-1 pattern.

Technique Week: Day 2: Doublings

Jun 28, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 4

Yesterday, we got Technique Week started off with the always effective GDE exercise. Today's featured exercise: Power Doublings. For a complete discussion of how to play the perfect doubling, along...

Technique Week: Day 1: GDEs

Jun 27, 2011 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 4

This week let's take some time to review, refine, and redouble your efforts to ensure your finger technique is clean, consistent, and confident. Each day this week, we'll have a featured exercise...

BagpipeLessons.com Studio Workshop: Perfect Doublings Revisited

Jun 06, 2011 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Self-Recording, Workshop 6

Today's focus: perfect doublings. It is an important topic, and an area where greater control and consistency will help you bring our the music your tunes. Today's goal is to work on making your...

Crossing Noises

Mar 23, 2011 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique 18

We've all played them. We've all worked to get rid of them. We all strive to play clean and controlled and keep our tunes free from crossing noises. What are crossing noises? Crossing noises are...

Twenty-One Tasks

Mar 21, 2011 Jori Chisholm Exercises, General Discussion, Practice Tips 49

Congratulations on making your second round of recordings yesterday. If you haven't completed it yet, see if you can get it done today or tomorrow. Today let's do something fun to celebrate reaching...

The Birl

Mar 16, 2011 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Videos 27

Today's focus is an important and common element of piping technique: The Birl. The simplest way to describe the birl: The birl is two low G strikes on Low A. What makes the birl interesting in a...

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