Uilleann Pipes Lesson 1 [The Basics] Start Here

These beginner uilleann pipes tutorials show you how to play the uilleann pipes from the very start, step by step. Take this lesson here then continue onto the OAIM website to avail of a free MP3 and sheet music of the tune - https://www.oaim.ie/uilleann-pipes/uilleann-pipes-basics/

In this lesson you will learn -
00:25 Intro to the instrument
00:53 The chanter and finger positioning
01:45 How to play each note
04:39 Bellows and bag pressure
07:18 Twinkle Twinkle / note production
15:12 'Top' D & C Natural
20:06 Happy Birthday
24:51 Britches Full of Stitches

You're in good hands learning from Tom Delany as he's been playing the pipes since childhood and has been teaching, playing sessions and touring extensively around the world.

https://www.oaim.ie/uilleann-pipes/uilleann-pipes-basics/
Course Synopsis: This course is for the absolute beginner piper and so it starts with an introduction to the physical instrument. You are taught how to sound the chanter, control the bellows and airbag, and, importantly, how to articulate between the notes.

The tutor then moves on to demonstrate the difference between playing pipes in an ‘open and ‘closed’ style. By lesson 5, you’re introduced to your first basic polka, then by lesson 8, your first solid pipe tune ‘Gander in the Pratie Hole’. With the foundations in place, you move onto other piping classics such as Fraher’s Jig.

Slowly upping the ante, ornamentation is introduced showing you how to progress from cuts and slides to rolls by lesson 10 with ‘Jimmy Ward’s Jig’. Two slower pieces ‘Dawning of the Day’ and ‘Southwind’ focus on long notes, bellow control and vibrato. Later on, you are introduced to techniques unique to piping such as ‘popping’ and the ‘staccato triplet’.

Finally, it’s not all fun and games, piping maintenance is discussed in lesson 18 and piper-toolkit essentials such as black tape, a tuner and guitar strings of all things… guess you’ll have to see the lesson to hear why they make a feature!

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