The Best Tune to Play for Your First Competition
Are you planning to compete as a soloist for the first time this year? What tune should you play? What are the good standard tunes that work best for beginning soloists?
Help! My Ganaway Bag Isn't Airtight!
Have you found that your Gannaway bag does not stay completely airtight? Should there be some flexibility with hide bags? What are the major fail points for pipe bags?
How to Share Your Recordings
If you take piping even slightly seriously, you'll need to share recordings of your playing. Whether you want to share a recording with a pipe…
Easily Recording and Uploading Assignments on iPhone and iPad
If you love to use your iPhone and/or iPad with Dojo U, you're in luck - it's also extremely easy to record and upload your…
What is "Tune Building" and Why Do I Care?
Patience is bitter, but its fruits are sweet. Speaking of eating, have you ever bitten off more than you can chew? Maybe you over-booked your…
Transitioning to the Pipes Without Frustration
Are you a new piper just starting bagpipes? Do you feel like you are going to pass out every time you play? Should transitioning to…
The Taking of Beaumont Hamel
The next tune in our continuing series on the Pipe Tunes of the First World War, and our Battle of the Somme mini-series, is “The Taking of Beaumont Hamel.” This tune commemorates the capture of Beaumont Hamel in November 1916 but it also serves as a bookend to one of the great tragedies of the Battle of the Somme.
Are Some Drone Reeds Less Efficient Than Others?
Have you changed drone reeds and found one set takes more air? Is it the drone reed or are there other factors? How can we test our drone reeds?
One Simple Tweak to Learn a Tune Successfully
Do you have issues with basic rhythm, scale navigation, or gracenote quality? Do you play embellishments because everyone else does? Could playing the simplified version of a tune help you get better as a piper?
Calling Poly Piping Peeps!
Do you have a set of poly pipes? What is the best set up if they are your primary set or your backups?