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Summary: Practice playing bagpipes by going down the scales in this free video series that will teach you everything you need to know to play the bagpipe.

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Neil Hubbard Neil Hubbard has taught the Scottish Highland bagpipes to individuals and groups since the early 1990's. In addition to coaching the Seattle Firefighters Pipe... read more

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How to Play Down Bagpipe Scales

NEIL HUBBARD: So, now I'm going to back down the scale from high A. You'll notice that the sound is very clean and clear between the notes. There's a distinct and clear transition that happens. The most important one is going from E to D or D to E, so that you don't get a crossing noise in there, which would sound like. What happened there is I didn't lift my right hand fingers before I put the left E finger down. What needs to happen is these right hand fingers come up slightly before the E finger goes down to get a nice transition. And the same crossing from D up to E, you don't want--a crossing noise in there, you want to hear a distinct D and then an E by lifting this finger slightly before this close.

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