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Get your hands warmed up and ready to play in 2 minutes

Jun 04, 2011 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Featured, Practice Tips, Videos 3

When you first pick up your chanter or pipes, it can take a few minutes to get the hands warmed up and working. A while back we looked at some simple stretches for your hands, today's video is a...

Warm up your hands and wrists with simple stretches

May 19, 2011 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Practice Tips, Videos 14

Try some simple stretches to get your hands warmed up and ready to pipe. Stretching improves flexibility and gets the muscles and tendons and ligaments lubricated and increases blood flow. This brief...

Secrets of Drone Tuning – Part Two

Mar 27, 2011 Jori Chisholm Tone & Tuning, Videos 36

Previously, we learned how to tune your drones together. Today, we'll take things to next level and show you how to tune your drones together and to match your chanter. IMPORTANT: As you know, when...

Secrets of Drone Tuning – Part One

Mar 26, 2011 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Tone & Tuning, Videos 25

"Pay or I play." Bagpipes are often the subject of jokes that make fun of the sound of the pipes. The comic of the piper who has has made a pile of money standing in front of a sign that reads "Pay...

The Birl

Mar 16, 2011 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Videos 27

Today's focus is an important and common element of piping technique: The Birl. The simplest way to describe the birl: The birl is two low G strikes on Low A. What makes the birl interesting in a...

Catch Up Day

Mar 10, 2011 Jori Chisholm General Discussion, Practice Tips, Videos 33

You've been working hard this month and today we'll take a day to catch up on everything and take a little breather. Listening and Learning from Others continues Yesterday, you listened to the videos...

The Dot-Cut

Mar 08, 2011 Jori Chisholm Expression, Fingering & Technique, Learning Tunes, Tunes, Videos 46

Here in the Inner Circle, we have looked at many tunes in depth. In the coming days, we'll be looking at even more, including reels. Reels fall into two basic categories: round (no dot-cuts) and...

Keeping track of your progress

Mar 02, 2011 Jori Chisholm Practice Tips, Videos 52

The first and most important step to making progress toward your goals is keeping track of your progress. For this objective, I have created a document based on my own personal progress tracking...

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