Guided tours of the greatest tunes — marches, hornpipes, jigs, slow airs — and what makes each one worth learning.
In this session I share a personal list of simple tunes I believe every piper should know — melodies often filed away as beginner material that I…
In this session I open up my personal recording archive to explore six classic hornpipes by Donald MacLeod: Crossing the Minch, Pipe Major George…
Just in time for the holidays, I walk through my complete Christmas tune packet — highlighted, annotated, and waiting in the Dropbox — playing each…
Born in Edinburgh in 1883, playing for Queen Victoria at age ten, a Gordon Highlanders pipe major six years after enlisting, and dead in my forties:…
I count down my personal list of the greatest 3/4 marches ever written, playing each one through on the chanter and digging into what makes it work.…
This session is a guided tour through the music of Gordon Duncan, one of the most influential pipers of all time — a player and composer so original…
In this listening-and-repertoire session, I take the Inner Circle on a tour of the bagpipe traditions of Galicia and Asturias in northern Spain and…
In this Inner Circle session, I dig into one of my all-time favorite tunes — the Cameron Quickstep, the springy 2/4 march I ha used to open recitals…
I put this class together because so many of you have asked what all these famous competition names actually mean, and I wanted to give you an…
I call John MacColl my favorite composer of 2/4 marches, and in this session I play and dissect seven of them: Arthur Bignold of Lochrosque, Jeannie…
Recorded in the run-up to St. Patrick's Day, this session is my tour of the Irish repertoire every working piper gets asked for. Before the tunes, a…
This session is a guided tour of the two-parted 2/4 march — the small-scale tunes I call masterpieces in miniature. I open with my tune-type family…
This session is a guided tour of some of the greatest bagpipe performances ever captured on video. I pull up historic YouTube footage and provide…
I set myself a challenge I'd never tried before: make a complete list of every piobaireachd embellishment, then teach through it in one session.…
In this festive session, I work through a stack of Christmas tunes arranged for the Highland bagpipe, playing each one live and showing exactly how I …
I continue my tour of the greatest piobaireachds ever written, moving from last week's beautiful melodies into three new categories: tunes with…
In this session, I take on a big question: if experienced pipers largely agree on which piobaireachds are the greatest of all time, what exactly…
I devote this session to one of my all-time favorite tunes — Mrs. John MacColl — and to the extraordinary man who wrote it. Drawing on Seumas…