Bagpipe Tutorial incl. app cooperation

For absolute beginners and intermediate bagpiper

Andreas Hambsch

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9783741276880
• eBook ISBN: 9783757894856
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

About the Bagpipe Tutorial: Recommended by the best pipers in the world!Bruce Hitchings, Michael Grey, Robert Watt, Willie McCallum, Dixie Ingram, Rory Grossart and many more.You have purchased one of the most professional and popular books for learning the bagpipes. It includes many famous and traditional melodies (Amazing Grace, Happy Birthday, Highroad to Gairloch, Scotland the Brave, Green Hills of Tyrol, etc.), all the finger techniques, and in contrast to other bagpipe books it has many exercises that you will need to learn the bagpipes successfully.The book is suitable for absolute beginners all the way to intermediate pipers. You can study on your own or use it as a classroom companion book. In 28 easy-to-understand lessons, you will find crystal-clear instructions on how to play the bagpipes from scratch. This book is also used for training purposes by many professional bands and bagpipe schools. Its aim is to give the student a technically and musically solid foundation and expert guidance on the route to becoming an accomplished piper.The Bagpipe Tutorial App, which is available from your app store, is perfectly matched to the Bagpipe Tutorial book. Besides the tunes in the book, it contains more than 250 exercise videos covering all the fingering techniques, embellishments and grace notes that you will need in bagpipe playing. The information is in soundtracks and visual displays, with close-ups of the chanter fingerings at different speeds to help you learn them more easily.You will also need a practice chanter to train your finger technique and your first songs. What you learn will only be transferred to the big set of bagpipes after a couple of months. The practice chanter will accompany you all through your life with the bagpipes. You will learn the fingering of new tunes on the chanter and continuously improve your fingering technique with it.This book, a milestone in the teaching of the Scottish bagpipes, will help beginners and intermediate players to achieve rapid success. It is a professional educational tool for playing and understanding the bagpipes.

Table of contents

• Further information
• Epigraph
• Table of Contents
• Description of the book
• Bagpipe Tutorial App
• Lesson 01 – Fingering on the Practice Chanter
• Lesson 02 – Scales and Exercises
• Lesson 03 – Music Theory
• Lesson 04 – Single Grace Notes
• Lesson 05 – Changing Notes with a Grace Note
• Lesson 06 – The “Throw on D” and your First Tune
• Lesson 07 – Half Strikes and Double High G
• Lesson 08 – Strikes, Double High A and Grip
• Lesson 09 – Double B, Double C and the Birl
• Lesson 10 – Learning by Heart
• Lesson 11 – Double E and Double F
• Lesson 12 – More Grace Notes and Doublings
• Lesson 13 – Crossing Noise Exercises
• Lesson 14 – The G Grace Note Birl
• Lesson 15 – Rodin
• Lesson 16 – Right and Wrong Habits
• Lesson 17 – Revision
• Lesson 18 – The Taorluath and Revision of the Grip
• Lesson 19 – Rhythm / Monotone Exercises
• Lesson 20 – G-D-E Single Grace Note Jumps
• Lesson 21 – The Set of Bagpipes
• Lesson 22 – Strathspey Triplets
• Lesson 23 – Tachum, Double Tachum and Darado
• Lesson 24 – Fast Finger Exercise
• Lesson 25 – Music Theory
• Lesson 26 – More Exercises and Embellishments
• Lesson 27 – More Tunes
• Acknowledgements & Happy Birthday Bagpipe Tutorial App
• Lesson 28 – Grace Notes, Embellishments and Exercises
• "How i memorise a song" by Dr. Andy Fluck
• Piobaireachd Embellishments
• About the author
• Copyright