Enter Sandman - Active Listening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd_UcjMusUA This is a master class on listening and rhythm analysis. If you've enjoyed our rhythm course you should enjoy his listening, his break down…
Alan Wardrop: Connecting During Covid
When I was a lad, the school I attended had a pipe band. Almost on a whim I decided I wanted to have a go…
Norman Crerar: You're Never Too Old
I got started in piping when I was organizing a 200 mile Voyageur Canoe Brigade of 15 canoes, 100 paddlers and a stage show telling…
Ross Miller: The Roke
Ross Miller taught a great class on March 14 (check out his class recording in the Guest Instructor's Library). He talked about his layering of…
An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCeh6amXyYE It's not every day you get to hear the bagpipes with a full orchestra. This is a great example of one of the rare…
Now That is Bagpipe Freedom!
https://youtu.be/DYsKJrTXi3I Bradley Parker performs his first set in the BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year Final 2021. The Road to Donemana by…
Comparing Piobaireachd Styles - Struan Robertson's Salute
Have you ever compared how different pipers play the same piobaireachd? They put in their own style based on how they were taught and the…
The Bagpiping World's Destructive Negative Feedback Loop
https://soundcloud.com/pipersdojo/316-the-bagpiping-worlds-destructive-negative-feedback-loop-03122021 Most bagpipe world has trapped itself in a destructive negative feedback loop that essentially guarantees its decline (and failure for the vast majority of…
Joe Moore: A History of Piping
The story goes my mother held me up as a baby in 1952 as the Scots Guards played the Garb of Old Gaul at the…
Matt Evans: A Friendly Affair
It's a funny thing but I initially had NO interest in the bagpipes. My friend Tim wanted to learn and knew I played other instruments.…