Smarter practice in less time: routines, goal-setting, motivation, and the common pitfalls that hold pipers back.
My practice playbook: take a skills inventory, record a baseline and write down your commitment; then the five tools (play your pipes more, break tunes into drills, focus on form, use the right tool, ask yourself the questions), technique, timing and tempo in that order, and giving yourself credit for the work.
A back-to-school method for practicing: break the tune down to the one movement that's failing, drill it with the technique, rhythm and speed stripped out, and bring them back one at a time.
This is a personal-development talk from me, stepping outside pure piping instruction to share the six principles I call 'the discipline of doing' -- …
I introduce my seven-point mindful practice checklist, a tool designed to stop pipers from wasting practice time on mindless repetition. My starting…
I frame piping in five big areas — technique, tone, musical expression, performance skills, and how to practice — and the group votes to dig into the …
Every fall for two decades, I flew home from the Worlds and the big solo events in Scotland, unpacked my case, and put my entire competition binder…
In this live Q&A, I work through a set of emailed and live-chat questions about building physical stamina, choosing reeds, and structuring practice.…
Using Bill Murray's Groundhog Day as the jumping-off point, I tackle one of the most common problems in piping: a practice routine that repeats…
In this video, I introduce my free guide, Starting the Year Off Right: How to Create Your Own 12-Week Plan for Piping Success. Rather than a…
In this session, I introduce my free guide, Starting the Year Off Right: How to Create Your Own 12-Week Plan for Piping Success. It is not a set…
In this video I walk through my favorite smartphone apps for piping practice and introduces the Piper's Advantage bagpipe phone mount, a…
I open with the framework behind all of my teaching: everything in piping fits into three categories — technique (everything you can do on the…
What happens when the fire goes out? In this discussion-driven session, I tackle the question that sits above all goal setting: why play at all.…
This video is a recording of a live Inner Circle class where I walk members step by step through the Piper's Metronome app, the metronome I designed…