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The Birl

Mar 16, 2011 Jori Chisholm Exercises, Fingering & Technique, Videos 27

Today's focus is an important and common element of piping technique: The Birl. The simplest way to describe the birl: The birl is two low G strikes on Low A. What makes the birl interesting in a...

Catch Up Day

Mar 10, 2011 Jori Chisholm General Discussion, Practice Tips, Videos 33

You've been working hard this month and today we'll take a day to catch up on everything and take a little breather. Listening and Learning from Others continues Yesterday, you listened to the videos...

The Dot-Cut

Mar 08, 2011 Jori Chisholm Expression, Fingering & Technique, Learning Tunes, Tunes, Videos 46

Here in the Inner Circle, we have looked at many tunes in depth. In the coming days, we'll be looking at even more, including reels. Reels fall into two basic categories: round (no dot-cuts) and...

Listening and Planning the Next Step

Mar 07, 2011 Jori Chisholm Learning Tunes, Tunes 39

Over the past few days, you selected three tunes, you prepared to make your recordings, and then you completed your recordings of your three tunes. Today, you'll listen and evaluate your recordings...

Self-recording

Mar 05, 2011 Jori Chisholm Competing & Performing, Tunes 52

Today's focus: Make recordings of your three tunes. As we discussed yesterday, one of key's to deliberate practice is careful analysis of your current skills so that you can identify the next steps...

Keeping track of your progress

Mar 02, 2011 Jori Chisholm Practice Tips, Videos 52

The first and most important step to making progress toward your goals is keeping track of your progress. For this objective, I have created a document based on my own personal progress tracking...

Getting ready to make the most of the 30 Day Practice Challenge

Mar 01, 2011 Jori Chisholm News & Announcements, Practice Tips 61

Welcome to the BagpipeLessons.com 30 Day Practice Challenge. With the simple commitment to practice every day for 30 days, discover how dedicated, sustained practice routine can lead to big...

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