How to Share Your Recordings With the World
Unfortunately, bagpiping isn't a billion-dollar-per-year industry. If it were, submitting recordings wouldn't be such a pain in the butt here at Dojo U. But, alas,…
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Second Grand Concert of Piping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-IsCs84VHw Here's a throw back to piping CD from 1997 with quite a few big names.
Overview of the "5 Challenges"
At the Dojo, we believe that forging common sense daily habits is a necessary prerequisite to attempting any other bagpiping goal. Here are five challenges…
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…
Phase 3 Challenge Week
Freedom Phase 3: Bagpipe Posture, Blowing Mechanics, and Tuning Drones Now that we are successfully playing some basic music on our practice chanter, the next…
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…
Carl's Take: Poly vs Blackwood
Which is better? This is a common question we get here at the Dojo. Common Question: "I'm about to get a full set of pipes...…
When the Pipers Play
https://youtu.be/YBqgGDlVw74 As Dr. Jack Taylor mentioned in his class, "Get the tune in your head." Hearing a tune played and sung is one way. This…
World-Changing Composition by Michael Grey
Michael Grey uses an amazing variety of music to influence his compositions. He shared some of these with us in his class this past Sunday.…
The Bagpiping World's Destructive Negative Feedback Loop
https://soundcloud.com/pipersdojo/316-the-bagpiping-worlds-destructive-negative-feedback-loop-03122021 Most bagpipe world has trapped itself in a destructive negative feedback loop that essentially guarantees its decline (and failure for the vast majority of…