Hack Your Practice: Big Bagpiping Improvement Leaps with Marginal Gains
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Is the end of another bagpiping season upon us already? Where does the time go? The weather here on the east is getting cooler and the AC is…
Is the end of another bagpiping season upon us already? Where does the time go? The weather here on the east is getting cooler and the AC is…
Setting focussed music goals and working to achieve them is the quickest path to improvement as a bagpiper. But setting proper goals can sometimes be daunting and it…
As pipers and drummers, it is easy to get so wrapped up in the “Highland” arts that we forget that the experience of making music is mostly the same for players of any instrument.
There really is nowhere you can go outside of the major competition platforms in Scotland other than Newark, New Jersey in February to hear nearly 12 hours of nonstop bagpiping of the highest caliber. The Metro Cup is one of those events that seems to get better and better with each passing year. The 2014 event was no exception.
The 2013 bagpipe competition is drawing to a close. The Worlds has passed and the big guns are loading up for the solos at Oban and Inverness over…