How To Play Bagpipes, Improve Your Rhythm, Clarity of Technique and Good Expression

The interactive lessons are suitable for you if you whish to:

• Have good detailed guidance right from the beginning of learning to play the Highland Bagpipe.
• Improve your rhythm.
• Imrove your clarity.
• Develop good expression.
• It is also a valuable tool for providing or conducting bagpipe tuition.

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Bill's Instruction Method

The DVD Tutorial Includes the following:

• Printable 93 page manual.
• 24 Basic Fingering Techniques Videos.
• 60 Audio tutorials for embellishments, technique and tunes.
• 10 Videos on bagpipe and chanter maintenance
• 19 Extra tune video tutorials.
• 18 Extra tune audio tutorials.
• 20 extra music scores.
• ... and much more!!!

In addition:

• The PDF manual can be printed for quick reference if desired.

• The text with illustrations, and music, accompanied by demonstrations on DVD, endeavor to leave as little as possible to the imagination.

• Exercises on technique etc., are numerous, but interspersed with simple tunes relative to preceding exercises to encourage, and relieve any monotony. The interactive bagpipe lesson demonstrations are in audio and video, often broken down and as played for good clarity. Teachers, naturally, can have flexibility with tune selections.

Detailed below is the Contents Page from The Comprehensive Beginners Guide

• Introduction.
• The Great Highland Bagpipe.
• The Practice Chanter.
 – Assembly and care.
• Early basic fingering.
 – Finger positioning.
 – Rear view of fingering.
 – Playing single intervals.
 – Playing two note intervals.
 – Grace notes/Single intervals with “G” grace note.
 – Two note intervals with “G” grace note.
 – Playing “G” grace note in descending sequence.
 – A series of runs with “G” grace note.
 – The “G,D,E,” grace note combination.
 – Strikes separating notes.
• Music theory and Pipe music – defined briefly, with time table.
• First simplified tunes.
 – About rhythm.
 – First two tunes – simple extracts.
 – Bruce's Address (or Scots Wha' Hae).
• Doublings and tunes relevant.
 – The lower hand.
 – The upper hand.
 – Cuttings on certain notes.
• Four more tunes.
 – Amazing Grace.
 – Bonnie Galloway.
 – The Minstrel Boy.
 – The Brown Haired Maiden.
• Little finger technique and tunes relevant.
 – The Birl.
 – The Grip or Leamluath.
 – The Taorluath.
 – Exercises incorporating Grips and Taorluath.
 – Doubling exercises from two preceding notes, and Loch Duich exercise.
 – Scotland the Brave.
 – Tachums.
• Another form of “G,D,E,”.
• Test, with answers.
• Tunes in various rhythms.
 – Skye Boat Song.
 – Colonel Robertson.
 – Dornoch Links.
 – Aspen Bank.
 – The High Road to Linton.
 – Paddy O'Rafferty.
• The Highland Bagpipes: acquiring, setting up, commencing to play, tuning, basic maintenance.
• Positioning of the pipes, starting up, and posture etc., with photographs.
• Extra tunes.
• Music writing exercises supplementary pages.
• An additional 14 page manual on Bagpipe Maintenance and Care.
• A large bonus tutorials folder of more extra tunes interactive with music scores with this manual.

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$67 Inclusive of free shipping world wide.

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