Wisdom
https://youtu.be/8dgpr9kfDL8 Some excellent wisdom on learning the pipes from Willie McCallum. Check it out!
Category: Commandment 1: Immersion
Your environment is the single greatest correlate to your success as a piper. Create a rich environment for learning, and you'll drastically increase your odds of success. We believe, for every one hour of "active" practice, you should be "passively" immersing yourself in bagpipe music, thought, and culture. When in doubt, use this page for inspiration.
Our Favorite Evergreen Sources of Bagpipe Inspiration:
Andra's 45-hour Spotify Playlist!
Ben and Andra's 60+ hour Apple Music Playlist! Part 1
Ben and Andra's 60+ hour Apple Music Playlist! Part 2
BBC Pipeline Archive
BBC Piping Sounds
Enjoy your Piping! With Gary West
The Big Rab Show Podcast
The World Pipe Band Championships
PipesDrums.com
The Piping Press
Bagpipe.News
Andrew Lenz's "Bagpipe Journey"
New Addition! The Piper's Persuasion - famous piper interviews.
X-treme - Thunderstruck - Lincoln Hilton
For those who have attended Cameron Drummond's class on X-treme, you will definitely appreciate this one! Lincoln Hilton plays an amazingly clean and spirited version.…
Inspiration...
https://youtu.be/H3v9unphfi0 This is just pure musical inspiration. Excellence in any form is fascinating to me but we should keep it musical on the channel. Enjoy!
The Story of Highland Cathedral
Regal. Stately. Majestic. It’s one of the biggest bagpipe tunes ever, behind only "Amazing Grace" and perhaps "Scotland the Brave." "Highland Cathedral" is – or should be – in every piper’s repertoire. But how much do you know about this tune? Time and again you’ll see it listed in programs as "Highland Cathedral" – traditional Scottish bagpipe tune. But that’s wrong.
X-treme
This tune by Chris Armstrong is an incredible workout for your fingers! Try it out yourself in Cameron Drummond's class! https://open.spotify.com/track/3WwtAxVrvpkaEon1nieCDS?si=d2e031d4a2534fcc
The Snuff Wife - Two ways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDrmxKGd0b4 Here's a great illustration of how pipes and fiddles often play the same tunes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrkSB-Ad9pI Here's the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland Playing…
Sawing Off Your Legs to Prop Up Your Face (The Intensity Equation)
Alas, this could never be a podcast, but a great listen nonetheless. What is the intensity equation? How can we use it to navigate our…
Heaven Taught the Ploughman
This great tune played by Blair Douglas is a lot of fun! Cameron Drummond enjoyed it so much, he wrote out the music and taught…
Matt MacIsaac - Fun stuff
https://youtu.be/bBUVzM1578I A couple of cool little reels for a cool day in Toronto: Becky Ewen The Hawk Moving Cloud www.facebook.com/mattmacisaacmusic www.twitter.com/mattmacisaac www.youtube.com/user/mattrick78