Doublings, gracenotes, taorluaths, birls, and the daily workouts that build fast, clean, relaxed fingers.
I open with a reframe that drives the whole session: pipers tend to think of doublings as sequences of finger movements, but a doubling is really a…
This session is a full play-along technique workout — the kind of 10-minute daily routine I recommend every piper keep in their back pocket. After…
The top hand is where technique gets hard: it's most pipers' non-dominant hand, it belongs to the bag arm, and it carries the busiest embellishments…
This video grew out of a 47-second short that became the most-viewed, most-liked, and most-commented clip in my channel history — and also the most…
In this Bagpipe Essentials Masterclass lesson, I teach the birl, one of the most important and most frequent movements in pipe tunes. I focus on the "…
In this second lesson from the Bagpipe Essentials Masterclass, I focus on the bottom hand, including a detail that is often overlooked: the position …
In this short lesson from the Bagpipe Essentials Masterclass, I walk through how to find the ideal top hand position on the practice chanter. I start …
I dig into two of piping's more obscure embellishments — the rodin and the darado — movements born in piobaireachd that also spice up jigs and…
I introduce what I call the most important and most unique exercise I've ever created: Power Dot-Cut Fluidity. The dot-cut — a long, dotted note…
In this Power Series lesson, I tackle a note combination that trips up a lot of pipers: the strathspey triplet. I show how these are commonly written …
In this Power Series lesson, I break down the Power Doublings exercise, a fingering drill built around the single most common embellishment in…
In this session, I dig into what finger dexterity actually is — the ability to make small, precise movements quickly, with accuracy and control — and …
I share one of my favorite Power Series exercises, Power GDEs, targeting the GDE — a gracenote combination made up of high G, D, and E — found in…
In this session, I work through James Clear's bestseller Atomic Habits chapter by chapter and translate it directly into bagpipe practice. Starting…
This session is a complete tour of the top hand: the position, the tension habits, and every major embellishment that lives up there. I start with…
What do you do when one corner of a tune refuses to come out? In this session, I build custom practice drills live, working from trouble spots…
In this Inner Circle lesson, I tackle two of the most demanding fingering embellishments in bagpipe music: the crunluath and the…