Drone valves are one of the most recent additions to the piper's pile of gadgets and gear. Today's post gives a detailed look at drone valves and why you might want them or not want them in your...
An effective moisture control system makes it easier to get your pipes tuned and keep them in tune for the duration of your performance or practice session. Today's video shows how you can build your...
Today's lesson features new tune: Pay the Piper (4/4 March). Below you'll find two high-definition videos of the tune (one on the practice chanter and one on the pipes), an mp3 recording, a detailed...
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...
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...
The key to a great chanter sound is a great chanter reed. Today's lesson features a 30 minute high-definition video that shows my detailed step-by-step process for testing and sorting through an...
Today's featured BagpipeLessons.com Studio member is Curtis Boyd from Alberta, Canada. Curtis had a great year competing in 2013 and was kind enough to share his experiences from his season. Videos...
Washing your drone reeds? Really? Yes! Today's post features two high-definition video demonstrations on the important yet often overlooked topic of washing drone reeds. It's not quite as simple as...
The World Pipe Band Championships for 2013 is now in the history books. The band I play with, the SFU Pipe Band, was fourth overall in the Grade One category. On one hand, fourth in the world is a...
Today's post is Part 4 of our ongoing series How to achieve a world-class bagpipe sound. It was also published in my "Sound Technique" column of the August 2013 edition of Piping Today, the former...
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