Pipehacker Tip: Tracking Your Practice
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Time is a valuable thing. Given the demands of everyday living, it is often hard to fit in the full amount of time one needs for good practice….
Time is a valuable thing. Given the demands of everyday living, it is often hard to fit in the full amount of time one needs for good practice….
Developing one’s musicianship as a solo bagpiper or pipe bandsman can be hard work, and it’s easy to fall back on the competitive music that demands so much of our time to polish. But, as musicians, we owe it to ourselves to develop a broader view.
“Point zero” is exactly what it implies. It is setting the strength of your drone reeds at the starting point before you begin adjusting for pitch and chanter reed strength.
The historic free live stream of the Glenfiddich Championship was a rousing success, I’d say. Congratulations to Iain Spiers on his first win. If you were one of…