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🗺️ The skills map

Where you are on the map

This is how I'd lay the whole thing out if you were sitting in front of me — every course in the library, in the order I teach it, from your first note on the chanter to the boards.

Nothing marked yet. Mark a class as watched and it lights up here.

your progress in each course finishedStart here what I'd do next

1

Start here & the chanter

Get set up, get the chanter working, and build the practice habit everything else stands on.

9 courses
2

First tunes & the pipes

Learn tunes properly, buy the right instrument, and make the jump to the full pipes.

5 courses
3

Embellishments & clean technique

The fingers: gracenotes, doublings, throws, birls — clean, even, and under control.

4 courses
4

Tone, tuning & setup

Reeds, moisture, air, drones and chanter — the work that makes the instrument easy and great-sounding.

12 courses
5

Expression & repertoire

Tune types, phrasing and the stories behind the music — where playing turns into music-making.

11 courses
6

Competing, performing & beyond

Take it out into the world: the boards, the gigs, the band — and the head game behind all of it.

6 courses

Every node is a real course from the library — the full course list is here, and your watched classes and saved spots live on your dashboard.