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268 -What NOT To Do When Piping in the Cold - 11.26.19
Scheduled to play a parade in November? In Canada? Preparing for that graveside memorial and the temperature takes a nosedive? How do you play in cold temperatures and stay in tune? Most pipers have been given the...
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267 - Target Practice - 11.19.19
Struggling with a section of a tune or a particular note progression? Do you spend a lot of time browsing through exercise books to find the right exercise and it still doesn’t help? How do you break down and target...
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266 - One Simple Issue That Makes Your Bagpipe Playing Sound Mushy - 11.12.2019
You are playing the right notes, you’ve worked on eliminating crossing noises, you play with a metronome, and you accurately play all rhythms, but your tune still doesn’t sound crisp and clean. And you can’t bring...
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265 - Why You Can’t Just “Blow Tone” - 11.05.19
Have you been told to blow tone or blow steady? Does your chanter reed cut out or squeal? Is it hard for you to tune your drones to your chanter? Does this whole concept of great tone seem ambiguous?
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264 -The Primary Key To Making a Tune a Joy to Play - 10.29.2019
Did you enjoy your last bagpipe performance? Was it meaningful to you as well as the audience? Did you have complete control over the delivery of that tune and your instrument?
Andrew describes how having control...
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263 - Why Tuning Is Not Enough - Foundations of Great Bagpipe Sound - 10.15.19
Don’t you just love the sound of a beautifully tuned bagpipe? The full harmonic sound of the drones blended perfectly with the chanter notes. Are you amazed how professional pipers seem to tune easily and get that...
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262 - Dot-Cut Rhythms: From Muddled to Music
Ever been told you are playing too "round"? Do your doublings turn to mush when after cut notes? Does your grip fall apart when it comes from a sixteenth note? Why do two sequential cut notes cause pipers so many...
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261 - Why Can't I Memorize My Bagpipe Tune?! - 10.01.19
How long does it take you to learn a tune? Do you work on it for weeks without much progress? Does it take you months to memorize a new tune and still have parts that cause your fingers to stumble?
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261 - Glenn Brown Returns - Long Form Chat - 09.24.2019
Today Glenn Brown is in town hanging out, and we get a podcast in. Enjoy this long form chat!
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260 - One Technique That Could Solve Sloppy Playing Forever? - 2019.09.23
Do you work really hard on your crossing noises but they still seem to creep in at the worst moments? Do you have trouble with sloppy gracenotes and embellishments, and nothing you do seems to fix them? How about...
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259 - Battling Condensation - 09.12.2019
A great discussion was had in a recent class in regards to reducing condensation in your instrument. Do you think you're a "wet blower?" (Hint: You're not!)
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258 - Actually Improving Your Bagpiping with the "Seinfeld Method" - 9.10.19
What is the common denominator of bagpipe success? Well, let's think about this for a few moments together.
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