Work on Practice Chanter

Piper for almost two decades, I have obviously accumulated a lot of hours of work on the practice chanter and I of course continue to do so since it is a path to explore for a lifetime with at each stage new progress in our way of apprehending the Great Highland Bagpipe.

It's also time to share with you some method tips and some exercises from my own experience.

Hoping that all this will be useful to you in your progress on practice, fingerings, grace notes, etc...

Onward!

It all begins on…

These pages are yet to be written (work in progress…).

The different sections will be ranged according to their increasing difficulties.

Besides that, there are tutorials to apply these exercises with the Scottish airs of my repertoire: some have already been published (see "Scottish Tunes Tutorials"), so don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube!

Before getting started:

- some exercises as well as a lot of inspiration and technique come from James McGillivray "Rhythmic Fingerwork",
which I highly recommand of course,

- internet tutorials are great to improve your skills but.
periodic sessions with and in front of a teacher still remain essentials!

- notes, fingerings, grace notes follow the "Scottish writing".

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Scottish Tunes Tutorials

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