Teach Yourself Bagpipes by Lindsay Davidson
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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)
These are basic and simple exercises and will help you get control of your fingers and give you enough skill to play very simply tunes, such as the "Skye Boat Song". Once you have got the basic idea, some people may wish to play along with a mentronome.
Although it is not an absolute rule, it is good to try and be aware of closing your gracenotes on the beat. Technique is NOT the ability to repeat something very quickly, but the control over your fingers and understanding to decide when things happen and why..
So, try to open the gracenotes before the beat, and close them on the beat.
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High G Gracenotes
D Gracenotes
E Gracenotes
Strikes
Gracenotes and Changing Notes
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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