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Summary: Practice reading printed music to better your bagpipe playing 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 Read Music for Bagpipes

NEIL HUBBARD: This page from the Scotland's National Piping Centre tutor book shows that again, there are only nine notes on the bagpipe which really simplifies the reading of the music. This music is actually more simple to read than say piano music and even most guitar music. Your staff are the five lines here that the music is written on. Bagpipe music is all written in the treble clef which that little symbol there indicates and there are these two real easy to remember acronyms to help you with the position of the notes on the staff. Good boys deserve fun always. G, B, D, F, and A are all on lines. All cows eat grass. Those notes are on the spaces A, C, E, and G. So those are easy ways to remember where the notes are on the staff.

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