Red Hot Chilli Pipers - 343 The Fallen
If you have never seen this video, watch it now! It is especially appropriate this September 11 as it is the 20th anniversary of the…
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.
Just, Equal or Bagpipe Temperament?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCYcS57eCqs This is an excellent demonstration of a sometimes difficult to understand concept. Tuning is always a bit of a challenge for us piper's but…
Two new Jigs- the Scribbler and Wigs Celidh
https://youtu.be/asYqq6CyY9g Bruce Gandy recorded a couple jigs for Seumas' Citadel, a collection of categorized and maintained culturally and musically significant artifacts of the greatest pipers…
Top Deck In Perth - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
A bandmate turned me on to this tune. It can become quite an earworm! https://youtu.be/eHwt1Wpd2Ys
Celtic music on the Continent - Galicia
https://youtu.be/NP6a_MdJa1I Let's not forget the Celtic music traditional boarder are broader than just the UK and Ireland. Here's some great listening.
The Company's Lament by Wendy Stewart and Gary West
https://youtu.be/1lZBTml5Wag A really interesting arrangement of the classic.
A Hero's Tribute
Our own Andy Fusco played a beautiful tribute to Lt. Nick Sessions of the Bullhead City Police Department. https://youtu.be/53NEy0iizyg
Interview with PM John Wilson
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhLQgxEAbSq_kHLBIva2yxfOc9GpCwyTm This 12 part interview is with world famous champion piper John Wilson.