When pipers struggle with sight reading tunes off the written page, it is usually rhythm that is the stumbling block. Here's a great tool for learning to read rhythms. Check out these exercises....
Try some simple stretches to get your hands warmed up and ready to pipe. Stretching improves flexibility and gets the muscles and tendons and ligaments lubricated and increases blood flow. This brief...
I recently taught a 90-minute seminar called Learning Tunes Made Easy. Take a listen to the audio recording of the entire course and the questions and answers.
I originally blogged about this a couple of years ago, and it still amazes me when I see pipers of all levels playing their pipes without ear protection. Pipes are loud. Hearing damage is cumulative....
If you joined us for the original BagpipeLessons.com 30 Day Practice Challenge in March 2011, we covered many great topics but just scratched the surface. You might have felt there was TOO MUCH...
Join us for our BagpipeLessons.com Studio Pipers' Club — a monthly online get together where you can play a tune (via video of course), listen to other pipers, and share comments and inspiration....
One of the best ways to improve your own playing is to make a recording and listen back to get an honest appraisal of your tunes — and of your strengths and challenges as a player. One of the great...
It's been a few days since the last new post of the March 2011 BagpipeLessons.com 30 Day Practice Challenge so I thought I'd check in and see how things are going.
Welcome to Day 30 of the March 2011 BagpipeLessons.com 30 Day Practice Challenge! Congratulations on making it to Day 30. We've covered lots of ground over the past month, but I feel like we've...
Since many of the world's pipers are right in the middle of the competition season, with some of the most important competitions of the year coming in the next two months, I thought today would be...
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