The Beginners Bagpipe Tutorial is a practical and detailed guide for beginners and teachers alike. Most of the lessons include text accompanied by audio and video instruction to explain or clarify the aspects of playing the bagpipes. The demonstrations endeavour to leave as little as possible to the imagination.
105 LESSONS GROUPED INTO FOUR MAIN SECTIONS:
- Basic fingering broken down/methodically and as normally played with simplified tunes interspersed in early stages
- Light music with attention to clear execution, rhythm and expression from simpler tunes through to intermediate level.
- Bonus of extra tunes tutorials.
- Bagpipe maintenance, reed setting, how to commence playing and tuning.
PLUS:
- 85+ videos
- 100+ audio files.
- Downloadable music scores for tunes
With your own practice chanter, you start on how to commence fingering the chanter then through to exercises and simple tunes relevant to more advanced exercises and suitable tunes that lead on to the pipes.
To further help, Bill intersperses his playing with comments about the technique or tune he is playing.
The Beginners Bagpipe Tutorial suitable if you wish to:
- Have detailed guidance right from the beginning of learning to play the Highland Bagpipe.
- Improve your rhythm.
- Improve your clarity of execution.
- Develop good expression.
It is also a valuable tool for those providing or conducting bagpipe lessons.
COURSE CURRICULUM
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)