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What will you learn from the lessons?

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The Learning Stages

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On the practice chanter:

- Good posture and finger positions

- Scale with correct fingerings and fluency

- Recognising the notes (hearing the intervals and reading the notation)

- Simple melodies

- Rhythm exercises

- Basic embellishments

- Simple tunes

- Understanding the beat subdivision and time signatures

- More basic tunes: Slow airs and marches

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*Once you can play a few tunes well by memory, you will be ready to add a pipe bag by using a practice goose or practice pipes.

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On the practice goose or practice pipes:

- Posture for holding the bag

- Coordination between blowing/breathing and arm movements

- Getting a steady tone

- Getting used to playing the tunes comfortably with a good sound

 

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On the full set of highland bagpipe:

- Maintenance and the knowledge of all the parts 

- Posture for holding the full pipes

- Build up the stamina

- Getting a steady tone

- Basic reed adjustments and tuning

- March and deportment  

- More advanced playing and refining the tone

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Repertoire:

- Slow airs / slow marches

- Simple time marches

- Compound time marches

- March / Strathspey / Reel 

- Hornpipe / Jig

- Ceòl Mór (Pibroch/Piobaireachd)

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