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Category Archive: Audio Recordings, Downloads, Exercises, Learning Tunes, Piobaireachd, Seminars, Videos

Piobaireachd Master Class: Too Long in This Condition (70 minute seminar)

Piobaireachd Master Class: Too Long in This Condition (70 minute seminar)

Mar 08, 2016 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Downloads, Exercises, Learning Tunes, Piobaireachd, Seminars, Videos 0

Today's post features a 70-minute master class on the classic Piobaireachd Too Long in This Condition. Included are the course handouts and the complete audio recording from a seminar I taught in New...
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Why do most pipers struggle with this rhythmic pattern?

Why do most pipers struggle with this rhythmic pattern?

Feb 12, 2016 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Best of the Internet, Exercises, Learning Tunes, Practice Tips, Videos 0

One of the most prominent features of bagpipe music is the omnipresent dot-cut. We've discussed it many times here on the BagpipeLessons.com Studio — and the importance of holding the dotted note...
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Kansas City Winter Storm 2016

Kansas City Winter Storm 2016

Jan 13, 2016 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Competing & Performing, Piobaireachd, Videos 2

This coming weekend is one the biggest weekends of the year in the piping world: Kansas City Winter Storm. The event features world-class and amateur level competitions in solo piping and drumming,...
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Build a clever storage dispenser for your bagpipe hemp

Build a clever storage dispenser for your bagpipe hemp

Jan 07, 2016 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Equipment & Gear, Videos 7

I've been a huge fan of using dental floss of various piping-related applications. I love that the floss comes in its own plastic case with a small cutting tool for easy dispensing and storage. But...
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Ezeedrone Reeds vs. New Increased Absorption Reeds (HD Video)

Ezeedrone Reeds vs. New Increased Absorption Reeds (HD Video)

Dec 15, 2015 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Equipment & Gear, Tone & Tuning, Videos 2

You've probably played or at least heard of Ezeedrone brand drone reeds. They are the most popular and best-selling drone reeds of all-time. The reeds are reasonably priced, come standard with many...
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The solution to the mysterious curse of the short B.

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

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...
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This might be the world’s best bagpipe tuner

This might be the world’s best bagpipe tuner

Nov 03, 2015 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Equipment & Gear, Tone & Tuning, Videos 13

Update June 2022: The best bagpipe tuner app is the Braw Tuner. I discuss the Braw Tuner in our recent live session on Chanter Tuning. To skip to where I discuss the Braw Tuner, go to 41 minutes in....
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New Tune: Donald MacLean’s Farewell to Oban (2/4 March)

New Tune: Donald MacLean’s Farewell to Oban (2/4 March)

Oct 19, 2015 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Downloads, Learning Tunes, Tunes, Videos 2

Today's post features a well-known competition-style 2/4 march – Donald MacLean's Farewell to Oban. Included is a complete recording of the tune, a complete audio lesson on the tune with detailed...
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Making it Stick: Interleaved Practice (Part One)

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...
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