Bagpipe Tutorials by Pipe Major Bill Robertson, ex The Royal Scots.


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	Welcome To My Bagpipe Tutorials Website A free resource of Bagpipe Tutorials, Tips and Techniques brought to you by, Pipe Major William (Bill) Robertson, formerly 1^st Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) Bill's Bagpipe Tutorials are packed with information, techniques and tips, gleaned from over 60 years of involvement with playing the bagpipes. Read what some of Bill's friends have to say about his bagpipe lessons. It Began With The Boys Brigade Bill started his bagpipe playing as a young lad with the Boys Brigade and upon turning 18 was drafted into the army. The Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming Bill was tutored at Edinburgh Castle by the famous PM Willie Ross MBE. About one year after graduating from The Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming he was promoted to Pipe Major for The Royal Scots, 1^st Battalion. Playing Internationally Besides playing at various locations around the world while in the Army. Bill has also taken civilian bands to compete very successfully on the International Circuit. An Accomplished Piobaireachd Player and Composer In his personal capacity Bill has been recognized as a Piobaireachd (Pibroch) composer of some note, as well as a very successful competitor. Bill's biography will reveal more information about his piping journey and achievements. Bagpipe Tutorials Website Content There is plenty of useful information in this website for bagpipers and below is a brief indication of some of the website content. Bagpipe Lessons - Some Techniques and Embellishments ... This section contains a few bagpipe tutorials on how to play various embellishments, finger positioning on the chanter and some notes about chanter maintenance and care. FREE Bagpipe Tune Lessons Every month Bill publishes a FREE Bagpipe Tune lesson. Some of these tunes include Scotland The Brave, Amazing Grace, Black Bear, Kilworth Hills, The Skye Boat Song, Caledonian Canal, The Royal Scots Polka and Bill's own composition Pipe Major Bill Boyle, New Zealand Scottish Regiment. You can be notified by email whenever a new tune is published by subscribing to Monthly Tune Notification Service. Bagpipe Tutorials On DVD Bill has documented his bagpiping knowledge onto DVD. The bagpipe tutorials are interactive with links in the document to relevant audio and video files. This means that Bill has enhanced his tutorials with additional video examples and audio instruction. It is almost as if Bill was in your lounge giving you one on one instruction. Bill's bagpipe tutorials cater for three levels of piping proficiency: Comprehensive Beginners Guide Advanced Comprehensive Guide 115 Piobaireachd Tutorials Bill is constantly updating his bagpipe lessons with new content and improvements. Bill also offers Online Bagpipe Lessons. You will find this very useful to complement your current tuition or you may want to touch up or review your technique etc. Piobaireachd Tutorials Bill has much to offer Piobaireachd (Pibroch) enthusiast. His Pibroch compositions have been recognized and published in various Piobaireachd books and he has also recorded over 115 Piobaireachd Tutorials as well. Bill's teaching style is unique. He does not play the tune through one time and then tell you how to play it. Rather, he breaks the tune down into sections and talks you through one section at a time. By doing this you can work at learning to play the piobaireachd tune section by section. This makes it a whole lot easier for you! Frequent Asked Questions About Bagpiping This is the section where you can ask Bill about a bagpiping related question. You can also read some of the question asked and Bill's reply. Piobaireachd Historical's By Ron MacLeod Ron MacLeod has spent years collecting Historical Piobaireachd Stories. With his kind permission he has allowed us to publish his work on this website. He has grouped this collection into three categories: General Piobaireachd Stories Lament Piobaireachd Stories Salute Piobaireachd Stories Bagpiping Articles In this section we have grouped together some bagpiping articles and other bits and pieces to do with the site. Why not take a look and see if there is anything that may be of interest to you. Keep Yourself Up To Date With The Latest Bagpipe Tutorials Updates Use the handy RSS feature to be able to quickly view the latest website page additions or page updates are. Look on the left hand column for RSS icons which you can click to subscribe to the RSS feed. The Icon looks like the following one Alternatively you could go to Bagpipe Tutorials Blog Page for a quick overview of what content has been added recently. Share and Enjoy:	Bill At His Daughters Wedding Bill, Your 2 DVDs have just arrived last Thursday in perfect condition. I quickly checked them running some Movies and MP3s...everything fine. I started with your tutorial which runs excellent on my Macintosh computer (Adobe linking fine with the movies and sound files!). I also want to express my gratitude for the very thoughtful arrangement of the Tutorials...it seems to me that you thought of everything one needs to know in order to approach piping and the bagpipe itself. A well done piece of work with many of your valuable experiences and knowledge built-in! Thanks very much!!! I wish you all the best and overall health for you and your beloved one's. Many regards to "down-under" Thomas 18^th January 2010. Bill, ... thank you for making the effort with your DVD it has been invaluable ... I found a piping instructor here at Edinboro University and have been taking lessons from him for about a year now ... he was amazed how far I had come with no personal instruction other then you ... In fact, I played my first funeral back in August. I played Amazing grace just as you taught it to me ... (On the DVD.) Again Thanks David Lindsay 25^th December 2009. DVD Tutorials A Comprehensive Beginners Guide Advanced Comprehensive Guide 115 Piobaireachd Tutorials Tunes Added Recently February 2010 Loch Carron January 2010 Balmoral Castle December 09 The Friendly Piper Bruce's Address - Progressive November 09 Pipe Major Bill Boyle, New Zealand Scottish Regiment October 09 Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band
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