Tuesday, January 9, 2018 by Madeleine King | Uncategorized

The second semester of classes begins at the Montreal Piping and Drumming School this week! I'm personally looking forward to resuming classes and seeing all your shiny, smiley faces this Thursday :)

This semester, my class will be moving away from the theoretical aspects of piping and will move toward the practical issues facing new pipers as they transition from practice chanter onto big pipes. Although many of my students have already made this transition, we'll be taking it all back to back-to-basics - focusing on simplicity and adhering to fundamental principles. Namely:

- perfect strike-ins
- even, steady blowing
- ear-training and pitch (also referred to as "blowing tone")
- general intonation and tuning the instrument
- great cut-offs

In addition to that, we'll pick up a brand new tune, and make last semester's tune an exercise in memorization.

Exciting times! Can't wait to get back at it.

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