How Long Should You Practice?

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Dr. Noa Kageyama has a website called “The Bulletproof Musician.” Many excellent posts to be found on the psychology of playing music, performing, etc. His post “How Many…

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Reed Anatomy: Synthetic Drone Reeds

Thursday, June 2, 2011

The last ten to fifteen years or so have seen an explosion of synthetic drones reeds makes out on the market. The modern Highland bagpiper is not at…

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7 Ways to Hack Your Brain for Better Bagpiping

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Bagpiping can seem like a moving target with the amount of information we need to take in as we learn. Never mind the getting the fingers to do…

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016 – The Bagpipe as an Extension of your Self – Philosophy

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Descartes: I think, therefore I am. The vast majority of Bagpiping Schools of Thought: …I [refuse to] think, therefore I am [magically a musical authority]… Philosophy is a…

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Scraping Bagpipe Chanter Reeds

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Ask twenty pipers the question “how do you scrape a chanter reed?” and you will likely get twenty different answers. There are as many treatments as there are…

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