Collection: Bagpipes For Beginners

A Bagpiper is a person who can play a list of tunes by memory on the bagpipe!

The purpose of any good lesson program is to take you from nothing to being accomplished!

In this program you will:

• Learn to read music!
• Learn to read rhythm! ​
• Learn to sight read!
• Learn to become independent and accomplished!

Here is what is in the book!

The Lessons

• ​Lesson 1   Rhythm and Meter 
• Lesson 2   Holding the Chanter
• Lesson 3   Reading Music
• Lesson 4   Adding our Feet
• Lesson 5   Blowing the Chanter
• Lesson 6   What's a Crossing Noise?
• Lesson 7   The GDE Grace Notes
• Lesson 8   Playing Grace Notes Between Intervals
• Lesson 9   Scots Wha Hae
• Lesson 10  Amazing Grace
• Lesson 11  The Blue Bells of Scotland
• Lesson 12  Bonnie Prince Charlie (Will Ye No Come Back Again) 
• Lesson 13  Johnnie Scobie (A No Awa Te Bide Awa)
• Lesson 14  Scotland the Brave

Tools to Improve Technique

• Ornament Worksheet
• The Taorluath Tune
• Exercises for Control
• Rhythm Syllable Answers 

The Tunes

• A No Awa Te Bide Awa
• All the Way to Galaway
• Amazing Grace
• Anchors Away (Navy)
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• At the River
• Auld Lang Syne
• Back to Donegal
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Bonnie Dundee
• Bonnie Prince Charlie
• Brown Haird Maiden
• Caissons Go Rolling Along (Army)
• Daniel's Lament
• Danny Boy
• Emily's March
• Evelyn's Scale Strathspey
• Foster's Garden
• Garry Owen
• George Roy's March
• God Bless America
• Going Home
• High Road to Gairloch
• Highland Laddie
• I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Johnnie Scobie
• Kelly, The Boy from Killane
• Let Erin Remember
• Lord Eric's Return to Efrat
• Mac Pic's Reel
• MacIntosh's Lament
• Maggies Lament
• Off We Go (Air Force)
• Over There
• ​Patty's Jiggity Jig
• Rab's Wedding in Jig Form
• Roy T's Hornpipe
• Ryan's March
• Scotland the Brave
• Scots Wha Hae
• Semper Paratus (Coast Guard)
• The Barren Rocks of Aden
• The Blue Bells of Scotland
• The Crusader's March
• The Duke of Gordon in Jig Time
• The Glendaurel Highlanders
• The Green Hills of Tyrol
• The Irish Washerwoman
• The Jolly Beggerman
• The Keel Row
• The Kilt is My Delight
• The Lady in the Bottle 
• The Marines Hymn
• The Minstrel Boy
• The Pikeman's March
• The Rowan Tree
• The Scots Guard's March Through Jerusalem
• The Taorluath Tune 
• The Wearing of the Green
• Tim's Mushrooms
• Trumpet Voluntary for Bagpipe
• Twenty Men From Dublin Town
• When the Battle's Over
• Will Ye No Come Back Again
• Willian's Hornpipe
• Wings
• You're a Grand Old Flag
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