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Selecting and Adjusting Pipe Chanter Reeds

Apr 05, 2013 Jori Chisholm Bagpipe Set Up, Featured, Special Offers, Tone & Tuning, Videos 46

Today's focus: Selecting and Adjusting Pipe Chanter Reeds Today's lesson includes two video demonstrations, the first on selecting a good pipe chanter reed and the second on adjusting the strength of...

Try these incredible finger exercises to build strength, flexibility, control and finger independence.

Mar 29, 2013 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Videos 1

Just as professional and aspiring athletes use cross-training techniques to increase their physical performance on the playing field or court, we pipers can benefit from stretches and exercises to...

Learn tunes efficiently by avoiding common mistakes

Mar 21, 2013 Jori Chisholm Expression, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips, Tunes 5

Download the pdf of the article. A complete understanding of any tune always begins first with general principles, followed by specifics. It helps to understand not only what we want to achieve, but...

How I memorized a Piobaireachd in five minutes and still had it memorized two weeks later.

Mar 15, 2013 Jori Chisholm Learning Tunes, Piobaireachd 7

We pipers spend huge amounts of effort, focus, concentration and worry on memorizing our tunes. Unlike many other musicians, we play everything from memory. And also unlike many other musicians, we...

American Profile Magazine Cover Story

Mar 10, 2013 Jori Chisholm Uncategorized 8

Last summer I was interviewed by American Profile Magazine and I was pleased to learn that the article made the cover of this week's edition. It's staggering to think that 10 million people will be...

Crunluath Progression Exercise

Mar 01, 2013 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Community and Interactive, Exercises, Featured, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 7

Here on the Studio we've featured several exercises in our Power series. Each of these exercises features the 8-4-2-1 pattern to build strength, consistency, and power in your fingering technique....

A new exercise to improve accuracy and control

Feb 19, 2013 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Downloads, Exercises, Expression, Fingering & Technique, Practice Tips 5

Today's exercise focuses on two important factors in clean, consistent piping fingering: accuracy and control. We've previously worked on many important elements of technique, including many detailed...

Research suggests that playing the pipes might make you more emotionally sensitive

Feb 10, 2013 Jori Chisholm Best of the Internet, Community and Interactive, General Discussion 3

It is plausible that learning a musical instrument would make you more sensitive to subtleties in musical sounds such as pitch, melody, rhythm, and harmony. Certainly by learning to tune our...

Find the perfect position for your thumb

Feb 04, 2013 Jori Chisholm Community and Interactive, Featured, Fingering & Technique 10

Today's lesson focuses on an important but often overlooked factor in bagpipe fingering: your bottom hand thumb position. The position of your bottom hand's thumb on the back of the chanter is...

New Tune: The Pikeman’s March (4/4 March)

Jan 24, 2013 Jori Chisholm Audio Recordings, Learning Tunes, Tune Workshop, Tunes 4

Today's post features a traditional 4/4 march – The Pikeman's March. Included is a complete recording of the tune, an audio lesson with a complete breakdown of the tune's structure and rhythmic...

Selecting and Adjusting Pipe Chanter Reeds

Try these incredible finger exercises to build strength, flexibility, control and finger independence.

Learn tunes efficiently by avoiding common mistakes

How I memorized a Piobaireachd in five minutes and still had it memorized two weeks later.

American Profile Magazine Cover Story

Crunluath Progression Exercise

A new exercise to improve accuracy and control

Research suggests that playing the pipes might make you more emotionally sensitive

Find the perfect position for your thumb

New Tune: The Pikeman’s March (4/4 March)

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