Description

Start the Bagpipes the Right Way, From Your Very First Note

Have you always wanted to learn to play the bagpipes? Every piper starts on the practice chanter. It’s where you learn your fingering, the notes, your grace notes and embellishments, and your first tunes, all before you pick up a full set of bagpipes. Having the right chanter, and learning things in the right order, makes the whole journey easier and a lot more fun.

That’s why I put the two things I’d give every new piper into one kit: the practice chanter I designed, and my complete video course on the essentials of bagpipe fingering.

What’s in the Kit

• The Endurance Practice Chanter: I designed it, and it’s made in Scotland by R.G. Hardie & Co. The moisture from your warm breath turns to water inside a practice chanter, and it can make your reed soggy, so it gurgles and cuts out just when you’re getting going. Inside the Endurance, cartridges filter that moisture out before it ever reaches your reed. Your reed stays dry, it’s easier to play, it sounds better, and your practice sessions and your reeds last longer. It comes with a practice chanter reed and 3 Endurance cartridges.
• An Extra Set of 3 Endurance Cartridges: a spare set, so you always have a dry set ready.
• My Bagpipe Essentials Masterclass: 31 video lessons, from setting up your practice chanter and your hand position to the nine notes of the scale, the grace notes, and the essential embellishments: doublings, strikes, grips, taorluaths, throws and birls. You can start watching as soon as you order.
• Free: Your First 100 Days as a Piper: my guide shows you what to work on first, step by step.

Choose Your Size

• Regular: the standard size, and the right choice for most people.
• Extended: a little longer and slightly lower in pitch, closer to the length of a pipe chanter.
• Junior: for kids, and for adults with smaller hands.

If your fingers are reaching, go smaller. Stretching leads to tension, and that can lead to habits you don’t want.

How to Get Started

1. Download your free guide, Your First 100 Days as a Piper.
2. Log in at BagpipeLessons.com/login with the email address you ordered with, and open your Masterclass.
3. When your chanter arrives, follow Getting Started with Your Endurance Practice Chanter.
4. Practice a little every day. Fifteen minutes every day beats an hour or two on the weekend.

The Value

Save $65 when you get all three together in the kit.

A Great Gift

Is there someone in your life who has always wanted to play the bagpipes? They don’t need to know anything about the pipes to get started. This kit has what they need to start right, from their very first note.

When You’re Ready for More

My Inner Circle has live classes with me on Zoom almost every week, and my whole lesson library, organized step by step.