This book was designed to teach your to play the Great Highland Bagpipe of Scotland.
You will learn to read notes and rhythm so that you can produce your own music. The book is based around the tunes of "The Massed Bands". These are the tunes that bagpipers have in common around the World. There is also enough music in this book to play any kind of event.
It's available in hard copy with a full digital package that includes .mp3's for each of the tunes and exercises.
Here is what this book contains:
| The Lessons | |
| Lesson 1 | Holding the Chanter |
| Lesson 2 | Reading Music |
| Lesson 3 | Adding Your Feet |
| Lesson 4 | Blowing the Practice Chanter |
| Lesson 5 | What's a Crossing Noise |
| Lesson 6 | Rhythm and Meter |
| 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 | |
| Tachums | |
| More Taorluaths | |
| The Taorluath Tune | |
| Ornament Worksheet | |
| Exercises for Control | |
| Tunes In This Book | |
| A Mighty Fortress | |
| A No Awa Te Bide Awa | |
| All the Way to Galaway | |
| Amanda's Green Smoothie | |
| Amazing Grace | |
| Anchors Away (Navy) | |
| Angels We Have Heard on High | |
| Auld Lang Syne | |
| Back to Donegal | |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | |
| Bonnie Dundee | |
| Bonnie Prince Charlie | |
| Brown Haird Maiden | |
| Caissons Go Rolling Along (Army) | |
| Captain Horn | |
| 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 | |
| Lincoln Banks Concern | |
| Lord Eric's Return to Efrat | |
| Loudon's Bonnie Woods & Braes | |
| Mac Pic's Reel | |
| Maggies Lament | |
| Off We Go (Air Force) | |
| Over There | |
| Patty's Jigity 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 Company's Lament | |
| The Crusader's March | |
| The Devil Among The Tailors | |
| The Duke of Gordon in Jig Time | |
| The Glendaurel Highlanders | |
| The Green Hills of Tyrol | |
| The Irish Washerwoman | |
| The Jolly Beggerman | |
| The Lady in the Bottle | |
| The Marines Hymn | |
| The Minstrel Boy | |
| The Parting Glass | |
| The Pikeman's March | |
| The Pipe Major's Lament | |
| The Rowan Tree | |
| The Scots Guard's March Through Jerusalem | |
| The Taorluath Tune | |
| The Wearing of the Green | |
| The Wind That Shakes The Barley | |
| Thomas Ryans Jig | |
| 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 |