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Beginner Bagpipe Tutorial
Introduction
Introduction
The Great Highland bagpipe
Early Basic Fingering
Practice Chanter Assembly & Care (5:45)
Finger Positioning (3:25)
Lower Hand Single Intervals (5:52)
Upper Hand Single Intervals (4:20)
"D" to "E" (3:27)
The run from low "A" to high "A" (1:45)
Playing two note intervals (6:55)
Single intervals with "G" grace note (5:38)
Playing "G" grace note in descending sequence (2:27)
Random intervals with G grace Notes (1:16)
A series of runs with "G" grace note (4:36)
Two note intervals with high "G" grace note (4:17)
The "G, D, E," grace note combination (3:04)
"G", "D", "E" sequence with additional note in pulse (2:28)
Strikes separating notes (3:36)
Music theory and pipe music
Music theory defined briefly
Music theory time table
About Rhythm etc., more detailed (2:38)
First tunes simplified
First tunes - introduction
First Tunes - Ode to Joy (5:13)
First Tunes - Three Blind Mice (3:04)
First Tunes - Bruce's Address Extracts (2:52)
Bruce's Address (9:12)
Doublings and relevant tunes
Lower hand doublings
Doublings on "B" (4:14)
Doublings on "C" (1:56)
Throw on D from various notes (3:50)
Doubling Open "D" (2:23)
"D" doubling with a strike on "D" only (1:12)
Upper hand doublings
Doublings on "E" (5:13)
Doublings on "F" (2:34)
Doubling on High "G" (1:30)
Doublings on High "A" (1:32)
Cuttings
Cuttings on certain notes (1:32)
Four More Tunes
Amazing Grace (1:32)
Bonnie Galloway (7:36)
The Minstrel Boy (6:28)
The Brown Haired Maiden (7:17)
Bruce's Address Advanced (1:13)
Mental Practice
Little finger technique and relevant tunes
The Birl (2:27)
The Grip or Leamluath (4:35)
The Taorluath (3:35)
Exercises incorporating Grips and Taorluaths (2:26)
Doubling exercises from two preceding notes (4:13)
Frequent endings of parts exercise (1:00)
Loch Duich Exercise (5:56)
Scotland the Brave (12:26)
Tachums
Tachums - Basic (1:25)
Tachums from leading in notes (1:25)
"G", "D", "E" movement, another form (2:50)
A combination of tachums (1:25)
Tunes in various rhythms
Introduction (2:10)
Jig - Paddy O' Rafferty (4:44)
March - Colonel Robertson (5:45)
March - Dornoch Links (4:29)
Reel - High Road to Linton (4:44)
Slow Air - Skye Boat Song (6:12)
Strathspey - Aspen Banks (6:28)
Additional Comments
Extra Tunes (i)
Extra Tunes Comments (0:25)
25th K.O.S.B's Farewell to Meerut (2:43)
Black Bear (2:49)
Brig o' Perth (2:43)
Cock O' the North (1:59)
Cutty's Wedding (3:11)
Dream Valley of Glendaruel (3:12)
Hot Punch (1:55)
Kate Dalrymple (1:59)
Mull of Kintyre (3:09)
The Badge of Scotland (3:17)
The Caledonian Canal (3:08)
The Fairy Dance (2:27)
The Irish Washerwoman (2:33)
The Mist Covered Mountains (1:50)
When the Battle's O'er (2:07)
Extra Tunes (ii) - Mostly Audio
A.A. Cameron's Strathspey
A Hundred Pipers an A' and A'
A Man's a Man for A' That
Calum Iain
Highland Cathedral
Miss Girdle
Rabs' Wedding
The Barren Rocks of Aden
The Green Hills of Tyrol
The Glasgow Police Pipers
The Highland Bagpipes, Acquiring & Setting Up
Acquiring an instrument
The Blow Piece and Valve (1:50)
Air Bag Tightness (2:33)
Binding Joints (2:14)
Easing the Chanter Reed (2:17)
Setting the Chanter Reed (4:20)
Tenor Cane Reed Setting (2:20)
Synthetic Drone Reed Setting (6:44)
More On Tuning The Pipes (2:28)
Positioning and Playing the pipes.
Positioning Pipes To Play (1:44)
Commencing To Play In Stages (17:49)
Basic Bagpipe Maintenance
Drying Out Stocks (1:43)
Tying Drone Cords (4:19)
Drying Drones With A Pull Through (1:37)
Bag Maintenance
Music Writing Exercise FromMemory
Music Writing Exercise - Part 1
Music Writing Exercise - Part 2
Selecting Tunes In Combination
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First tunes - introduction
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