Bagpipe Private Lesson Course

This course is taken in your regular on-going private instrument lessons.

During these lessons you will cover the material listed in this course description.

See our Private Lesson Tuition Programs for pricing.

Live! Webcam Lessons or at our Amherst Location This Course may be taken at our Amherst, NH facilitly or via our Live WebCam Lessons, regardless of your location.

Course Description

Text: “The College of Piping - Highland Bagpipe Tutor - Part 1"... leading into continuing study using Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

A detailed and comprehensive study of the bagpipe chanter notes, fingering, scales, embellishments, rhythms and repertoire. Online lesson materials are available with this course to help students more readily study.

Due to varying pitches of chanter manufacturers, students are required to purchase the bagpipe chanter starter kit available from John Walsh Bagpipes. Listed prices are displayed in Canadian currency.

The starter kit includes a John Walsh Plastic regular length practice chanter with water trap, practice chanter reed, cloth chanter cover, College of Piping Tutor Book (Part 1) with CD ROM.

History of the Bagpipe
The Bagpipe has a long and honorable history stretching back to the beginnings of instrumental music. Student's will learn about the origin and a brief history of the bagpipes.

The Practice Chanter
Students will learn proper care and maintenance of their practice chanter. The practice chanter is used throughout the piper's career for learning new songs and fingerings.

The Chanter Notes and Fingerings
Students will learn to perform practice scales and songs using all of the 9 notes on the bagpipe chanter with proper fingering.

Grace Notes
The bagpipe uses grace note embellishments to add interesting effect to many of the notes. Students will perform drills and develop these grace notes for future use in their repertoire.

Throws, Strikes, Doublings
Another way to embellish notes on the bagpipe is to add multiple combinations of grace notes prior to, or in between melodic notes. Proper performance of these embellishments is what adds considerable complexity to the learning of the chanter.

Repertoire
Students will begin to build a song repertoire, while learning new embellishments with each new song. The repertoire learned during this phase will be memorized and used throughout each student's bagpipe journey.

Music Theory
Students will learn the stave, treble clef, note names, note timing values, time signatures, beats and rhythms.

Grips, Tachums, Birls, Taorluaths
These are additional types of embellishments that students will begin to add to their practice.

Anthology
Scots Wha Ha'e
Brown Haired Maiden
High Road to Gairloch
Highland Laddie
Charles Wi' The Breeks
79th's Farewell to Gibraltar
Earl of Mansfield
Inverness Rant
Piper of Drummond
Green Hills of Tyrol
Atholl Highlanders
Aiken Drum
Piobaireachd of Donald Dubh
Blue Bonnets

Pennywhistle Lessons

We offer the Pennywhistle as an additional instrument that can be easily learned by anyone. Bagpipe Chanter students can learn the Pennywhistle as an optional, inexpensive, fun instrument.. or it can studied as a student's main instrument.

Recorder Lessons

In addition we also offer Recorder lessons to interested students. Our studies include folk, classical, jazz and popular music styles.

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