Jigs from a Champion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WsEnr00hl4 Here's the champion piper Alex Gandy playing a series of jigs and just letting them fly. Enjoy these jigs and this great music.
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.
Instrument Control
https://youtu.be/iPrEENOPdx8 A simple idea executed well. The FM displaying what is possible with good instrument control. It's a small "trick" but a really effective idea…
A.C.J.A. by Seamus Coyne
This is a great tune written by Seamus Coyne as a tribute to the Lee boys and played by a group of incredible pipers! https://youtu.be/PpIvcTKixPY
Stuart Liddell Performance Mastery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp9uRHokyjM So aside from the fantastic music played here by Stuart Liddell, watch how naturally and confidently he's playing. It's a hint of the preparation…
Marching Can be Fun
https://youtu.be/OmberDpriXg If you have never marched to a hornpipe, put it on your bucket list! It's a really fun thing to do! Notice the control…
Victor Wooten Performs Amazing Grace
https://youtu.be/PA-ZKDOoBnk Just a little fun with a bagpipe classic!
A Showy Performance from Angus MacColl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INwKOfHVKIo Angus MacColl at the Lord Todd Piping event in 2013. It's always neat to listen back to some less traditional piping; this is a…
A Master Class in Jazz Performance and Creativity with Pianist Kenny Werner
https://youtu.be/Un3p614XExc Someone shared this with me about 10 years ago. I go back and listen to it about once a year. It is wonderful advice…
Royal Marines Corps of Drums and Top Secret Drum Corps
https://youtu.be/x9nmSJ3gesE This is what amazing rhythmic accuracy can do!
The Radical Road Concert 1988 - PM Robert Mathieson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PydLEw4L3MA The hugely influential concert of the Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band under the direction of PM Robert Mathieson and DS Jim Kilpatrick. Those…