Category: Celtic Music

Jun 01

High Road to Linton

Fraser KevinPosted in Bagpipe Lessons, bagpipes, Celtic Music, Drum Lessons, drumming, pipeband, piping

Mar 20

The FEEL of different tune types

Fraser KevinPosted in Bagpipe Lessons, bagpipes, Celtic Music, Drum Lessons, piping, Theory

Aug 17

Mixolydian Scale

Fraser KevinPosted in Bagpipe Lessons, bagpipes, Celtic Music, Music Theory, piping, Theory

mixolydian scale The Bagpipes has a range of nine notes, low G to high A. The bagpipe scale is tuned close to but not exactly on the “concert bb” scale. The traditional (western) scale is tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone, with the octave divided almost evenly into 12 parts. The Bagpipe scale is an octave (fairly) evenly divided into […]

Aug 17

Scales

Fraser KevinPosted in Bagpipe Lessons, Celtic Music, Music Theory, Theory

There are two octave-scales on the bagpipe: low G to high G; and low A to high A. Don’t confuse the range (one octave plus one note) with the scales. An octave of notes on the bagpipes would be (low) A B C D E F (high) G (high) A; or, (low) G (low) A […]