About the Bagpipe Tutorial: Recommended by the best pipers in the world! Bruce Hitchings
Michael Grey Robert Watt Willie McCallum Dixie Ingram Rory Grossart and many more. You have
purchased one of the most professional and popular books for learning the bagpipes. It includes
many famous and traditional melodies (Amazing Grace Happy Birthday Highroad to Gairloch
Scotland the Brave Green Hills of Tyrol etc.) all the finger techniques and in contrast to
other bagpipe books it has many exercises that you will need to learn the bagpipes
successfully. The book is suitable for absolute beginners all the way to intermediate pipers.
You can study on your own or use it as a classroom companion book. In 28 easy-to-understand
lessons you will find crystal-clear instructions on how to play the bagpipes from scratch.
This book is also used for training purposes by many professional bands and bagpipe schools.
Its aim is to give the student a technically and musically solid foundation and expert guidance
on the route to becoming an accomplished piper. The Bagpipe Tutorial App which is available
from your app store is perfectly matched to the Bagpipe Tutorial book. Besides the tunes in
the book it contains more than 250 exercise videos covering all the fingering techniques
embellishments and grace notes that you will need in bagpipe playing. The information is in
soundtracks and visual displays with close-ups of the chanter fingerings at different speeds
to help you learn them more easily. You will also need a practice chanter to train your finger
technique and your first songs. What you learn will only be transferred to the big set of
bagpipes after a couple of months. The practice chanter will accompany you all through your
life with the bagpipes. You will learn the fingering of new tunes on the chanter and
continuously improve your fingering technique with it. This book a milestone in the teaching
of the Scottish bagpipes will help beginners and intermediate players to achieve rapid
success. It is a professional educational tool for playing and understanding the bagpipes.
