Finally, the bagpipe book has arrived from a music shoppe in Scotland!! Oban to be exact. Now that I have the essential materials for proper practice and study, I can get started. Getting the fingering down on the chanter will be my first goal and then I can move on from there. The scale is not difficult but I seem to get stuck on the downscale as one needs to lift more than a single or second finger.
This is where the practice comes in. Unfortunately my schedule has made it tougher to even do that.
Ugh!!! Time to make some decisions on where to trim the time and make it happen.
I need to make a choice of which to concentrate in and so I lean towards the pipes alone. That is what I shall do. With the book and my chanter I hope to be decent enough to attend a few sessions with the River City pipe band and learn some things. the major of that group has emailed me that it would be great to see me there on Wednesday nights. A tough night to go but i shall try!!!
Not much a blog entry this time and way overdue. I waited for the book a long time and now that I have it there is no reason to be so bad about the blog entries. Here is hoping for a better record of that in the future!
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