Month: February 2013

Impress your friends; Annoy your neighbours with a Weapon of Mass Distraction!

Impress your friends and annoy your neighbours with your Weapon of Mass Distraction. Learn to play the Great Highland Bagpipes. Not only will you be able to wear a kilt; You will be able to serenade Scottish Lads and Lassies. Your lessons will provide you skills within the art of playing the bagpipes. You will … Continue reading “Impress your friends; Annoy your neighbours with a Weapon of Mass Distraction!”

            Impress your friends and annoy your  neighbours with your Weapon of Mass Distraction. Learn to play the Great  Highland Bagpipes. Not only will you be able to wear a kilt; You will  be able to serenade Scottish Lads and Lassies.

Your lessons will provide you skills within the art of playing the bagpipes. You will learn music theory as it applies to the bagpipes.

You will learn on a practice chanter. After about a half dozen lessons you will blow a set of pipes.

 

Piping for Highland Dancing tune list

Having just piped for some highland dancers at a Robbie Burns night, and having to go searching various places to remember which tunes were used for the dancing, I thought it would be useful to list them here as well. The fling – Marquis of Huntley Highland Fling Sword Dance – Ghillie Callum Pas de … Continue reading “Piping for Highland Dancing tune list”

Having just piped for some highland dancers at a Robbie Burns night, and having to go searching various places to remember which tunes were used for the dancing, I thought it would be useful to list them here as well.

  • The fling – Marquis of Huntley Highland Fling
  • Sword Dance – Ghillie Callum
  • Pas de Bas – first part of Ghillie Callum
  • Sean Tribhus – Whistle O’ the Lave
  • Gay Gordons – Gay Gordons (though a set of strathspeys can also be used)
  • Highland Laddie – Highland Laddie
  • Lilt – Battle of the Somme

The tunes for some of the other dances I didn’t pipe for that night include:

  • Sailor’s Hornpipe – Crossing the Minch
  • Irish Jig – Paddy’s Leather Breeches
  • Strathspey and Reel – Loudon’s Bonny Woods and Braes & Jock Wilsons Ball
  • Johnnie –
  • Broadsword – Set of strathspeys