This set is based around a practice Chanter and Reed to help you to learn and develop the techniques and basic skills required to play this most symbolic and evocative Scottish instrument. Everything you need is in this great starter kit! The Beginners Piping Chanter Kit has been specially designed to introduce and give a newcomer to world of bagpipes the essential elements and basic skills and knowledge to start playing. This practice chanter is a musical instrument in it’s own right which, when played, produces the same notes as those played on the Bagpipes. It will be of great advantage if not essential to begin your playing here before graduating to the bagpipes. Inside this fantastic kit you will find all the important elements as well as the Chanter. A Beginners Music Book containing twelve well-known Scottish tunes such as Amazing Grace, Skye Boat Song and Auld Lang Syne. A carefully constructed and illustrated playing chart that demonstrates how to hold the chanter A beginner-level tutor CD with a full length instructional method which guides you through the troublesome early stages!

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The How to Manual for Learning to Play the Great Highland Bagpipe Book/CD Set by Archie Cairns. For Bagpipe. Methods. Scottish. Beginning. Book/CD Set. 104 pages. Published by Scott's Highland Services (MB.B002B). ISBN 9780969794875. Scottish. 8.75x11 inches. The "How To" manual is a simple, easy-to-follow, unique method for learning to play the Great Highland Bagpipe that provides a progressive program for Beginners. --Learn the scale from the top down --Theory of music to simplify and understand pipe music --Finger technique - execute gracenotes and embellishments --Characteristics of pipe music --Tone and tuning, explanation, methods and exercises --"Sing Fingering" - easy method to help in learning tunes --A music progression plan with check list --Rhythms made easy using a system of "Neumonics" --Subject Matter listed Alphabetically (easy to find).

Pipe Music Book 1 by Archie Cairns. Arranged by Archie Cairns. For Bagpipe. Solos. Celtic/Irish. Beginning-Intermediate. Book. 76 pages. Published by Scott's Highland Services (MB.B020). ISBN 9780969794820. Celtic/Irish. 8.5x11 inches. This book contains a wide variety of tunes for bagpipes that have been composed, arranged, or selected by Pipe Major A. M. Cairns. They range in difficulty from easy tunes which anyone could play to more complex tunes which demand more intricate finger techniques. Major Cairns, as a composer and arranger, is known in many countries for his ability to put music and arrangements together that are inspiring when heard on the Great Highland Bagpipe. You have the opportunity with this book to experience not only some of his finest compositions but also some band scores he has arranged with the harmonies and drum scores included.

By Niel Dickie. For Bagpipe. Solos. Scottish. Beginning-Intermediate. Book. 48 pages. Published by Scott's Highland Services

Irish Session Tunes - The Green Book (100 Irish Dance Tunes and Airs). Edited by Geraldine Cotter. For Flute, Tin Whistle, or Bagpipe. Music Sales America. Irish, Folk, Celtic. Book only. 64 pages. Ossian Publications #OMB141. Published by Ossian Publications (HL.14016244). ISBN 1900428563. Irish, Folk, Celtic. 8.25x12 inches. This series contains over 100 Irish dance tunes and airs in each volume. The collections contain a varied selection of widely played and lesser-known tunes, divided into different dance rhythms, and then sorted into sets of similar tunes to be played at Irish sessions. The range of the tunes are particularly suitable for the fiddle, but can be used on other instruments.The “green book” includes jigs, reels, hornpipes, set dances, slow airs and more, in simple form for musicians of all levels. Ideal for the pennywhistle, tinwhistle, flute or pipes. Songs include: Dan the Cobbler • Open the Door • Miss Monaghan • Dunphy's • The Orange Rogue • Anach Cuain • and many more.

Traditional Irish Music for the Bagpipe edited by Dave Rickard. For Bagpipes (Bagpipes). Music Sales America. Irish, Traditional, Celtic. 38 pages. Ossian Publications #OMB45. Published by Ossian Publications (HL.14033958). ISBN 0946005745. Irish, Traditional, Celtic. 8.5x7 inches. A breathtaking and unusual collection of traditional Irish tunes that have been arranged for the bagpipe by Dave Rickard. Fifty pieces are included, some are rare and others had never been used before in bagpipe bands, but all are familiar tunes or melodies which will delight and enthrall performers and audiences alike. Pieces featured include: O Sullivan's March • An Mhaighdean Mhara • The Gravel Walk • The Lark in the Morning • and more.

Learn to Play the Bagpipe is fun, exciting and one of the most different musical experiences. Take up the ultimate Musical challenge! Let your tutor guide you all the way through the easy basic lessons to playing the pipes, this is a wonderful method suitable for all ages, children and adults. This easy to follow tuition course contains fourteen packed lessons with both the chanter and full bagpipes, including: music instruction and theory, chanter practice, how to strike up and control the drones; as well as many well-known tunes such as Amazing Grace, Scotland the Brave and Skye Boat Song. This DVD also features bonus material in the shape of a short, worldwide history of the origins of the bagpipe provides an excellent background.

Bagpipers by Bela Bartok (1881-1945). For oboe / piano. Score & part. Published by Masters Music Publications Inc. (MT.M1805-SET).