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Category Archive: Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Uncategorized, Videos

New Exercise:  Advanced E Strike Progression

New Exercise: Advanced E Strike Progression

Jun 13, 2014 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Uncategorized, Videos 1

Today's post features a series of exercises to improve the strength, control and precision of the ring finger on your top hand. For most of us, the ring finger is the least coordinated of our...
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What is Circular Breathing?

What is Circular Breathing?

May 25, 2014 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Fingering & Technique, Videos 3

Circular breathing is a nifty technique used by players of wind instruments to maintain a continuous note even while breathing in. On the pipes, we have the bag that allows for a continuous sound so...
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Tips for Playing Clean and Fast

Tips for Playing Clean and Fast

May 10, 2014 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 56

Today, we revisit a very important topic for pipers. We've talked a lot about the need for clean fingering, controlled tempos, separation of grace notes in doublings, and all those important details....
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Perfect GDEs

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...
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Big or Small Grace Notes?

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...
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Technical Elements

Technical Elements

Feb 14, 2014 J. David Hester Fingering & Technique 0

Power Thumb Gracenotes Power D Taorluaths Strathspey Triplets Revisiting: Strasthspey Triplets GDEs Perfect GDEs Revisiting Perfect GDEs Dot-Cut Fluidity New expanded and updated Dot-Cut Fluidity...
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What is “scissoring” and how can you avoid it?

What is “scissoring” and how can you avoid it?

Feb 12, 2014 Jori Chisholm Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 6

In the earliest stages of your piping journey, you first learned the nine notes of the bagpipe scale. Then you probably were introduced to simple grace notes: first played on the same note, and then...
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New Exercise: Power Thumb Grace Notes

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

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

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...
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