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Master Your Musical Expression: Marches, Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs & Hornpipes for Pipers & Drummers

The Short Version

Sheet music is a guide, not a literal script. Notation software that plays back written notes exactly as printed sounds robotic because it skips the layer of expression rules every style of tune depends on; pipers and drummers have to supply that layer themselves.
Because bagpipes have no dynamics or rests, pulsing is how pipers create emphasis. Rather than playing a beat louder, pipers lengthen the front of the beat slightly; I show that a cut note stays exactly the same short length no matter how much pulsing is applied, since pulsing stretches the beat, not the note.
Each tune type has its own tempo range and its own expression rules. 2/4 marches call for heavy pulsing on every beat, strathspeys pulse beats one and three while keeping every dot-cut short, hornpipes relax that same feel at a brisker tempo, and jigs abandon pulsing almost entirely in favor of dead-even eighth notes.
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Master Your Musical Expression: Marches, Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs & Hornpipes for Pipers & Drummers
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00:00vs. Framework: light types piobaireachd music tune🔒
03:20notation drum mono-linear Reading in rhythm🔒
05:14solo vs. 2/4 band for Tempo ranges marches,🔒
07:00of march blocks The 2/4 building rhythm🔒
11:33music sheet is not a literal guide, script Why a🔒
15:19need it and What is pulsing bagpipes why🔒
20:59why (and does) pulsing nobody Notating🔒
24:01vs. "strong-weak": accenting Retiring pulsing🔒
28:26keep consistent simple expression I and 2/4 Why🔒
32:52tempo rhythm ranges and Strathspey🔒
39:47plus on and Strathspey pulsing one expression: dot-cut three🔒
45:25of cousin the lighter, faster march Hornpipes: a🔒
48:43Jigs: even notes keeping eighth🔒
52:59by ear Identifying tune types🔒

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