Pointing, pulsing, phrasing, and the musical decisions that separate playing the notes from playing the tune.
Pointing, pulsing, phrasing — pipers hear these words on judges' sheets and in lessons, but what do they actually mean? I untangle all three,…
Strathspeys, along with piobaireachd, are the most distinctly Scottish tunes we play — and technically the hardest, with an unrelenting dot cut,…
I open with one of my favorite recordings anywhere — the third movement of Hamish Moore and Dick Lee's concerto for bagpipes and jazz — and then…
The Highland bagpipe has nine notes — but the ladder from low G to high A actually has more rungs, and in this session I show how to reach four of…
I finally tackle a topic I've dodged for years: circular breathing. It isn't necessary on the Highland pipes — the bag is a built-in circular…
In this session I unveil the Pyramid of Musical Mastery — a framework I developed to connect the two sides of piping that usually get taught…
In this collaborative video, I sit down with seven-time world champion pipe band drummer James Laughlin to break down the fundamentals of…