Jun 13, 2017 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 1
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...Apr 17, 2017 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Downloads, Exercises, Fingering & Technique 0
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...Nov 22, 2016 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Exercises, Featured, Fingering & Technique 10
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...Jul 14, 2016 Jori Chisholm Courses, Fingering & Technique 3
Over the years I've built up a large library of lessons, videos, tunes and more. I'm often asked is "Where should I start?" or "Where can I find all of the lessons related to my topic of interest?"...Jun 02, 2016 Jori Chisholm Downloads, Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Tunes, Videos 4
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...May 17, 2016 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Learning Tunes, Practice Tips 0
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...Dec 05, 2015 Jori Chisholm Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 4
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...Nov 17, 2015 Simon McKerrell Fingering & Technique, General Discussion, Piobaireachd, Special Guest, Tunes 1
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....Nov 12, 2015 Matthew Welch Community and Interactive, Competing & Performing, Equipment & Gear, Expression, Fingering & Technique, Tone & Tuning, Videos 1
In today's post, we have an in-depth interview with our newest guest writer and one of the piping world's most fascinating people, Matthew Welch. Matt has an incredible combination of experience and...Aug 18, 2015 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Fingering & Technique, Learning Tunes, Practice Tips, Videos 6
Today's post is the first in a new series of posts about the science of successful learning. Many traditional practice methods are based on time-honored traditions and folklore. Recent science...Here you’ll find hundreds of lessons, videos, audio files and more. This content is designed to help you learn and improve in every area of your piping. Not seeing a topic you’d like to learn more about?
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