Easily Recording and Uploading Assignments on iPhone and iPad
If you love to use your iPhone and/or iPad with Dojo U, you're in luck - it's also extremely easy to record and upload your…
Category: Frequently Asked Questions
What is "Tune Building" and Why Do I Care?
Patience is bitter, but its fruits are sweet. Speaking of eating, have you ever bitten off more than you can chew? Maybe you over-booked your…
Bagpipers: How to Play FAST
Some pipers think that it is really hard to play fast, but they’re wrong. It’s very easy to play fast, even at a tempo that comes close to matching that of Stuart Liddell. Thus, a fast tempo is really no problem at all. The problem arises when we expect to play fast and at the same time make anything that sounds close to good music.
Chanter Reeds: Differences and Uses
While each chanter reed may look mostly the same, individual reed makers will often incorporate individual design changes that make subtle changes to the shape, configuration and construction of the reed in order to produce different harmonics. Different reed makers also use different sources for cane (the material of the reed blades), making the quality reed to reed from maker to maker, different. Chanter reeds from maker to maker will also perform differently from chanter to chanter.
Bagpipers and Copyrights
Every now and then, heated discussions arise online about bagpipers sharing copyrighted material. For as long as I have been a bagpiper, copyrighted material has been freely shared in every community that I have been part of. Let’s discuss.