Effortless Mastery - Kenny Werner
https://youtu.be/OyPdDhIEZUE Here's a great take on mastery in music. This is a great parallel to our piping psych course.
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.
Oft in the Stilly Night (Slow March of the Ulster Defence Regiment)
Looking for a funeral tune that is not Amazing Grace? This one is quite beautiful and the sheet music (with harmonies) is available from pipetunes.ca…
Amazing Grace - Laurent Voulzy
This beautiful rendition of this classic song. Amazing grace sung by famous French singer Laurent Voulzy with a local French pipe band.
Victor Wooten applying Maya Angelou to music
https://youtu.be/ruMW7gsuFb0 The power of playing simple
Stuart Liddell at Piping Live 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vfjT-ZtWzA Another performance from the great Stuart Liddell, stay tuned to the end for a few famous tunes rearranged! WOW!
Dan ar Braz & L'Heritage des Celtes - Green Lands | Live au Zénith, 1998
Cameron Drummond mentioned this recording in his class on Jun 30, 2021. Not only is it a great recording, it is a very simple tune!…
Pipe Major George Allan in competition
https://youtu.be/MO91lRpGVX8 Iain Speirs performing 'P/M George Allan', and 'Whatever Moreover' for the Hornpipe & Jig section of the 2019 P/M Donald Macleod MBE Memorial Competition.
Lament for the Iolaire - Stuart Liddell
A very moving piobaireachd played by one of the best! Nothing more needs to be said. Just listen. https://youtu.be/iwbPFqeBP5Q
Traditional MSR/HJ Competition - Alex Gandy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og7D2ZdUea8 This is a traditional high level competition format. Take a listen to this masterful performance by Alex Gandy from 2017.
Saltatio Mortis - Wellerman - Bagpipe Version
Sea shanties have made a comeback in 2021 (thanks to social media). This is a great example of how pipes can enhance popular music. https://youtu.be/r5L7bLUqGJM