Today's lesson is Part 7 of the Learn the Pipes video series and introduces a new embellishment, the High G Doubling. The video gives a clearly detailed step-by-step video lesson on how to play the...
Today's post features a new exercise that will help you improve the control of your little finger on the bottom hand. The new exercise, Little Finger Control, will help you identify and eliminate the...
Today's post features a new exercise that will help you improve two important areas of your piping technique: doublings and crossing noises. The exercise combines elements of some of my favorite...
Today's post combines a previous post on crossing noises with a new three-page crossing noise exercise called Power Crossings, and the updated worksheet called How to identify and eliminate crossing...
Today I'm excited to announce a new feature called BagpipeLessons.com Studio Courses. Over the years we've built up a pretty huge library of lessons, videos, tunes, etc. Some of the...
When getting a new tune performance or competition-ready, we have a long list things that need to be learned and problems that need to fixed. Most pipe tunes have some combination of tricky...
Pipers spend a lot of their practice time focusing on cleaning up their technique. Doublings, taorluaths, grips, d throws, birls, crossing noises, false fingerings -- it can feel like the list is...
The nine notes of the standard bagpipe scale gives us 81 possible two note combinations. Add in a third note and we have 729 possible three-note combinations. But some of these combinations are...
Today’s post comes from our newest BagpipeLessons.com Studio contributor Dr. Simon McKerrell -- piper, composer, and professor. For more about Dr. McKerrell, scroll down to read his piping bio....
Up close with Matthew Welch: Sheepskin bags, cane drone reeds, piping in academia, bagpipe jazz, Balinese gamelan, finding your true musical voice, and more…
In today's post, we have an in-depth interview with our newest instructor and one of the piping world's most fascinating people, Matthew Welch. Matt has an incredible combination of experience and...
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