BagpipeLessons.com Celebrates Eleven Years of Success!

Thank you for your continued support of BagpipeLessons.com.  This week marks eleven years since I started the site.  My goal was to create the world's best site for information on learning to play the pipes.  In 2003, BagpipeLessons.com was the first site to offer webcam lessons.  In 2006, we launched the incredibly popular Tune Lesson Downloads, a complete learning solution to help learn tunes faster than ever before. Earlier this year, I created Video Lesson Downloads with high-quality video demonstrations of all the basics of bagpipe fingering, including the Learn the Pipes series for pipers starting at Day 1.  

Check out the complete list of ninety-two Tune and Video Lesson Downloads -- all available for instant download individually or in discounted multi-packs.

BagpipeLessons.com has become the world's premier source for information on learning the pipes.  For beginners to advanced players, the site has grown to offer something for pipers of all levels and interests.  As high-speed internet and webcams have become more popular, so have the webcam lessons by Skype.  Now pipers around the world can receive individualized top-level instruction regardless of where you live.   

Learn more about face-to-face lessons using Skype and a webcam.

It has never been easier to keep in touch with other pipers and stay connected.

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We've got some great new things in store for the upcoming months, so be sure to check back.  If you have a suggestions for what you might like to see please drop me a note!  Some of my best teaching ideas have come directly from my students.

Thanks again for your continued support of BagpipeLessons.com.  You have made it possible to build and grow the site into what it is today and you have helped me imagine what the site can offer in future.

Happy Piping!

Jori Chisholm

Founder & Chief Instructor

BagpipeLessons.com

Ten New Tune Downloads!

I am excited to announce the addition of Ten New Tune Lesson Downloads available for instant download. The lessons are a complete learning solution, so you'll be able to learn these tunes faster than ever before. The lessons include a high quality mp3 recording of the tune, sheet music that perfectly shows how the tune should be expressed, a detailed audio lesson, and BONUS material.

This brings the complete list of Tune Lessons Downloads to seventy-four, including seventy of the best known piping tunes and four classic Piobaireachds.

The Tune Lesson Downloads complete collection includes:
• twelve 2/4 Marches
• seven 3/4 Marches
• ten 4/4 Marches
• five 6/8 Marches
• one 9/8 March
• twelve Slow Airs
• three Strathspeys
• two Reels
• seven Hornpipes
• nine Jigs
• two Other
• four Piobaireachds

The new batch of tunes includes:
• When the Battle's O'er
• King George V's Army
• The Minstrel Boy
• The Dawning of the Day
• The Barren Rocks of Aden
and more!

Check out the new tunes!

Ten New Tune Lesson Downloads

I am excited to announce the addition of Ten New Tune Lesson Downloads available for instant download. The lessons are a complete learning solution, so you'll be able to learn these tunes faster than ever before. The lessons include a high quality mp3 recording of the tune, sheet music that perfectly shows how the tune should be expressed, a detailed audio lesson, and BONUS material.

This brings the complete list of Tune Lessons Downloads to sixty-four, including sixty of the best known piping tunes and four classic Piobaireachds.

Check out the new tunes!

Moving to No-Man's Land

I'm wondering about your webcam lessons, and how appropriate they are for non-beginner pipers. I will be moving to piping no-man's-land later this summer. I'd like to keep my piping up, but there will be no one around to teach me. I haven't had many lessons in recent years, relying instead on a combination of band practices and band tutoring.

Yes! My long distance learning opportunities are perfect for someone like you. You can start with some of my Tune Lesson Downloads to get started learning some fun, new material. If you have a webcam and a good internet connection, we can do some webcam lessons -- they work just like real in-person lessons but we meet using free video chat software on your computer. We could also do lessons by tape (or mp3 or CD), just send me a recording of the tunes you are working on and I'll listen to them and record a custome lesson for you including tips for improvement, learning strategies, and demonstrations on the practice chanter. It's never been easier to learn the pipes -- no matter where you live!