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Learn Any Tune, Faster

A step-by-step system for picking up new tunes by ear and by eye, so you spend less time stuck and more time playing.

7 LESSONS · ALL LEVELS · WORK THROUGH THEM IN ORDER

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01 Understanding Tune Types: Marches, Strathspeys, Reels & More Start by knowing what kind of tune you're looking at, since a march, strathspey, and reel each demand a different feel. July 24, 2023 · 36m · Learning Tunes → 02 Understanding Bagpipe Music: The Complete Guide to Every Tune Type & Time Signature by Jori Chisholm This full guide fills in the time-signature details behind each tune type so the written page makes sense. November 30, 2023 · 37m · Learning Tunes → 03 Understanding Repeats: How to Read, Understand, and Play the Repeats in Your Bagpipe Tunes Before you can learn a tune correctly you need to read its repeats correctly, so this closes a common gap early. January 16, 2024 · 22m · Learning Tunes → 04 How to Learn a New Tune the Right Way This lays out a repeatable method for breaking a new tune into learnable pieces instead of guessing your way through it. October 7, 2024 · 1h 0m · Learning Tunes → 05 The Art of Playing By Ear: How to Learn Tunes Without Sheet Music Once you have a method for reading tunes, this adds the skill of picking them up without sheet music at all. March 3, 2026 · 1h 2m · Learning Tunes → 06 Learn and Master Sight Reading With both ear and method in place, this sharpens your ability to read and play a new tune the first time you see it. April 18, 2023 · 58m · Learning Tunes → 07 What Makes This Tune Great? John Morrison of Assynt House As a capstone, this walks through why one well-loved tune works musically, so you learn to analyze tunes on your own. May 16, 2024 · 1h 8m · Learning Tunes →

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