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New Exercise: The Anywhere/Anytime Birl Exercise

Aug 12, 2014 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 4

Today's post features a new and powerfully simple way to exercise your birl. A strong, consistent birl is important for pipers of every ability level.

What is Deliberate Practice?

Jun 08, 2014 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, General Discussion, Practice Tips, Videos 38

Let's revisit an important topic: deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is different than just playing your pipes. In his Fortune magazine cover story, Geoff Colvin defines deliberate practice as:...

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....

Supercharge your lessons by answering a few simple questions.

Mar 07, 2014 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Practice Tips 2

I like to try and develop methods and techniques that will help my students make faster progress towards their piping goals. Recently, I've asked my students to complete a brief pre-lesson...

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...

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...

Take your practice to a whole new level with this amazing app

Dec 14, 2013 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Best of the Internet, Downloads, Practice Tips, Self-Recording, Videos 12

Have you ever been listening to a recording of a pipe tune and wished you could listen to it a slower speed? Have you ever wanted to record your own practice and listen back to it at a slower...

Some reminders for helping you achieve excellence.

Jun 15, 2013 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Community and Interactive, General Discussion, Practice Tips 0

I recently came across this great blog post, with some helpful reminders for staying focused and motivated to work towards achieving excellence. Author Erik Barker's blog has the tagline "I want to...

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...

Try these incredible finger exercises to build strength, flexibility, control and finger independence.

Mar 29, 2013 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 1

Just as professional and aspiring athletes use cross-training techniques to increase their physical performance on the playing field or court, we pipers can benefit from stretches and exercises to...

Category Archive: Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos

New Exercise: The Anywhere/Anytime Birl Exercise

What is Deliberate Practice?

Tips for Playing Clean and Fast

Supercharge your lessons by answering a few simple questions.

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

New Exercise: Power Thumb Grace Notes

Take your practice to a whole new level with this amazing app

Some reminders for helping you achieve excellence.

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

Try these incredible finger exercises to build strength, flexibility, control and finger independence.

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