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New BagpipeLessons.com Studio Course: Improve Your Finger Technique in 30 Days

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?"...

Fix One of Piping’s Biggest Problems With This Simple and Powerful New Practice Method

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...

Fix any technique problem with this simple five-step method

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...

The solution to the mysterious curse of the short B.

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...

Dr. Simon McKerrell: Some notes on the bagpipes (Part 4)

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....

Up close with Matthew Welch: Sheepskin bags, cane drone reeds, piping in academia, bagpipe jazz, Balinese gamelan, finding your true musical voice, and more . . .

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...

Making it Stick: Interleaved Practice (Part One)

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...

Learn how world-class performers break through?

Jul 05, 2015 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Community and Interactive, Featured, Fingering & Technique, General Discussion, Learning Tunes, Practice Tips, Self-Recording 14

Ever felt that you weren't getting the results you wanted out of your practice? Ever wondered why improvement in some skills and abilities seems to level off despite lots of practice time? Ever...

Revisiting Your Practice Checklist

Jun 24, 2015 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Competing & Performing, Exercises, Expression, Fingering & Technique, Learning Tunes, Practice Tips, Tone & Tuning, Tunes 32

People who consistently perform to their fullest potential leave nothing to chance. They know to prepare for everything both mentally and physically in all possible scenarios. But while preparing for...

Learn the Pipes Video Lesson #3: Strikes

Apr 27, 2015 Jori Chisholm Beginners, Fingering & Technique, Videos 2

Today's video gives a a clearly detailed step-by-step video lesson on how to play Strikes (also known as taps, hits, slurs, shakes, etc.). Learn the secret to perfect timing, clean execution, and...

Category Archive: Courses, Fingering & Technique

New BagpipeLessons.com Studio Course: Improve Your Finger Technique in 30 Days

Fix One of Piping’s Biggest Problems With This Simple and Powerful New Practice Method

Fix any technique problem with this simple five-step method

The solution to the mysterious curse of the short B.

Dr. Simon McKerrell: Some notes on the bagpipes (Part 4)

Up close with Matthew Welch: Sheepskin bags, cane drone reeds, piping in academia, bagpipe jazz, Balinese gamelan, finding your true musical voice, and more . . .

Making it Stick: Interleaved Practice (Part One)

Learn how world-class performers break through?

Revisiting Your Practice Checklist

Learn the Pipes Video Lesson #3: Strikes

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