Teach Yourself Bagpipes by Lindsay Davidson

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Main Index

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How to Practice
Order of Study
Rhythm and Reading Music

Exercises 
Tunes

Bagpipes:
Transition to Bagpipes
Tuning a Bagpipe

Getting Better:
Using Midi files
Intermediate exercises
Advanced

Band repertoire

Links:
Where to buy equipment
Links to teachers
Links to Organisations
Links to pipe bands
Links (other)
Coming soon...

Here is a brief description of the 'upgrades' planned for the site together with progress notes on what has been done most recently.

Please keep coming back to see what is new.

Once again, please email your comment, suggestions, questions and requests to Lindsay Davidson at 
lindsaydavidson(at)lindsaydavidson(dot)co(dot)uk

Please feel free to join the mailing list to find out about when changes are made to the teach yourself bagpipes pages - new tunes, new exercises, special events, and also to talk to other beginner pipers.

In May 2013 plans have been made for some substantial and dramatic additions:
  • A piobaireachd section will be added
  • A smallpipe section will be added
  • A section of RSPBA MAP tunes, with exercises and advice will be added
  • A section for your first 6 competition styles March, Strathspey and Reel (MSR) sets will be added
The objective of this is to significantly expand the number of people using this site. For a few years this has been stable at between 2000 and 2500 different people per month (according to the statistics). By widening the potential audience it is hoped to raise the number of people learning from here and thus make a wider and more extended contribution to piping. 

Each of these sections is a huge project in itself. Please be patient as it will take some time. Do keep coming back to see what is new.

May 2013


Rudiments Index

Hand Position and the Scale
Crossing sounds
G Gracenotes
D Gracenotes
E Gracenotes
G,D,E Gracenotes exercise
Strikes
Throws
Doublings - general principles
Low G Doublings
Low A Doublings
B Doublings
C Doublings
D Doublings
E Doublings
F Doublings
High G Doublings
High A Doublings
Grips
Taorluath
Birl
Tachum
Hara

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Lindsay Davidson
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