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320 - Long Form Chat with Robert Mathieson - 05.06.2021
Robert won the worlds 5 times as Pipe Major of the Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band.
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319 - Long Form Chat with Ross Miller - 04.30.2021
Ross hails from Linlithgow, West Lothian where he is the official Town Piper. He studied Bagpipes, Scots Song and Whistles at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In July 2017 he graduated with a First Class Honours...
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318 - Long Form Chat with Greig Canning - 04.28.2021
Greig Canning is a piper with the two-time grade 1 World Champions, Inveraray and District Pipe Band.
He is a regular prize winner and ‘A grade’ competitor on the highland games circuit, regularly competing at the...
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317 - Long Form Chat with "The Captain" Ken Eller - 04.26.2021
Ken is one of the most prolific pipers in North American history. Be sure to visit thecaptainscorner.com to learn all about his career, his teaching, and his works.
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316 - The Bagpiping World's Destructive Negative Feedback Loop - 03.12.2021
Most bagpipe world has trapped itself in a destructive negative feedback loop that essentially guarantees its decline (and failure for the vast majority of enthusiasts...).
Can you summon the strength to break free...
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315 - Forget Practicing Slowly! Get Better By.... Going Fast? - 10.09.2020
A student shared this:
Here's a very interesting article/podcast about why learning difficult tunes or passages by starting slowly and gradually increasing practice speed has some inherent limitations, and offers a...
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314 - The Hard Reed Fallacy and other FAQs - 09.25.2020
This week we have a lot of great questions and some good banter. Question of the week is: Why should you NOT be playing a hard reed? The answer may open your eyes...
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313 - The Best Way to Transition to the Full Bagpipes (And More) - 08.03.2020
In this class we have a great end-of-week Q&A for our Premium Members, beginning with a great review of the BEST way to transition from the practice chanter to the full bagpipes.
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Introducing the Pipe Major's Symposium - Stuart Liddell, Robert Mathieson, Alan Bevan
Supercharge Your Leadership!
A 2-Day Intensive Workshop for Pipe Corps Leaders - September 12-13, 2020 - Featuring World Champions Stuart Liddell, Robert Mathieson, and Alan Bevan
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312 - Are You Prepared for a Long-Lasting COVID Bagpipe World? - 07.24.2020
It's becoming clearer and clearer that the bagpipe world may take a long time to return to anything that even remotely looks like normal. Are you prepared to adapt?
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311 - Become "Unconsciously Competent" as You Learn a Tune - 07.15.2020
When you learn a new tune, you should be breaking it into bite-sized segments. Each bite size segment should be on auto-pilot before you move on to the next one. This is also referred to as reaching "unconscious...
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310 - Learning Tunes Is Easy (If You Do It Right) - 07.07.2020
In this hands-on class, Andrew dives deep down the rabbit-hole of tune learning. Why does it seem so hard for me, when others seem to do it easily? The answer might be so simple it surprises you!
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