Smarter practice in less time: routines, goal-setting, motivation, and the common pitfalls that hold pipers back.
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…