“...this is not, um, a listening piece for your friend...” lol. Top notch, per the usual Mr. Willis. The accent’s not bad either. Cheers for the exercise!
I've wanted to learn the bagpipes my whole life, and this channel has made it possible over the course of the last 2 years. Thanks, Matt! Happy Thanksgiving.
This is really helpful. My Pipe Major put me onto this so that I could 'clean up' my grips and it has been terrific. I'm looking forward to doing more with Matt's techniques and improving the quality of my piping. As a 63 year old learner of 12 months, I need all the help I can get.
Loving these technique videos Matt! Seriously the most helpful instructional bagpipe videos of seen on the internet. Please keep it up! (Also love all the other vids just as much).
Oh yes! Having the camera on you does make it more intense! But it is certainly healthy for practicing at home... It's like a level of intensity before playing in a group, and then playing in a group is the level of intensity before playing in front of an audience, then from in front of an audience to in front of the judges.... Or something along those lines, lol. Awesome video 👍
Hey Matt, your exercise was enormous useful. Before I did your exercise my grips were very hectic and unclean. Now they are on a very good way. I love it.
This is an awesome grip exercise! In just a few times through slowly, I can tell it’s helping improve my messy grips! Using a tune that I know makes it not so tedious!
thanks a lot sir for this very nice exercices, i had so much difficulty with grip and taorluath .... now it's better, not perfect but it's on the good way. it will take a lot of time but rome was not made in a day
I've been playing pipes for over a decade, and while I can do low hand grips reliably, I almost always screw up the high A grip on the pipes. I cannot find out the proper orientation for the chanter that allows all embellishments to be played properly.
Grips have two sounding tone/longer Low G’s, both falling before the beat. A light D throw has only one Low G and the heavy D throw had one longer sounding tone Low G before the beat and a shorter crossing noise length Low G on/after the beat.
“...this is not, um, a listening piece for your friend...” lol.
Top notch, per the usual Mr. Willis. The accent’s not bad either. Cheers for the exercise!
That's probably the only word I could successfully say with a passable Scottish accent. And thank you!
I've wanted to learn the bagpipes my whole life, and this channel has made it possible over the course of the last 2 years. Thanks, Matt!
Happy Thanksgiving.
Glad you found the channel! I appreciate the kind words. Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
SIMPLY....BRILLIANT!!!!
Apologies for the "cold open" being a bit loud! Too bad you can't edit videos once they're posted!
This is really helpful. My Pipe Major put me onto this so that I could 'clean up' my grips and it has been terrific. I'm looking forward to doing more with Matt's techniques and improving the quality of my piping. As a 63 year old learner of 12 months, I need all the help I can get.
Glad I could help! My most popular technique video is my taorluath video: ua-cam.com/video/HmlFPU-AeNY/v-deo.html
Loving these technique videos Matt! Seriously the most helpful instructional bagpipe videos of seen on the internet. Please keep it up! (Also love all the other vids just as much).
Thanks! Glad you are finding them useful. Feel free to share them with any pipers you know! 👍👍
Great video! The Grip Tree is an awesome name for this exercise!
I'm signed up for your patreon now; best dollar I've spent this month ;)
Oh yes! Having the camera on you does make it more intense! But it is certainly healthy for practicing at home... It's like a level of intensity before playing in a group, and then playing in a group is the level of intensity before playing in front of an audience, then from in front of an audience to in front of the judges.... Or something along those lines, lol. Awesome video 👍
Great video! Having the downloadable exercises is fantastic!
Glad you like them!
I can’t thank you enough for this download and video. It helped me over a huge hurdle.
This is absolute madness but I love it. I will definitely use this to work on grip consistency!
It's often a blurry line between genius and madness ;)
Excellent.
Can slow down on settings using 3 dots on top right hand side.
Thank you.
Hey Matt, your exercise was enormous useful. Before I did your exercise my grips were very hectic and unclean. Now they are on a very good way. I love it.
Happy to help!
Thanks!
You are welcome and I appreciate your generosity!
This is an awesome grip exercise! In just a few times through slowly, I can tell it’s helping improve my messy grips! Using a tune that I know makes it not so tedious!
That’s great to hear! Glad you’re getting something out if this exercise. Cheers!
Bravo
Thank you !
thanks a lot sir for this very nice exercices, i had so much difficulty with grip and taorluath .... now it's better, not perfect but it's on the good way. it will take a lot of time but rome was not made in a day
I do it with Circular Breathing
(just about the only thing I can show off with)
OH and
THANKS , Great stuff
AND also.
Yeah, guys head on to Patreon
This would’ve been much easier if I could circular breathe!
@@MattWillisBagpiper if you could make a video about that that would be cool
@@chocolatebar5663 I'd have to learn how to do it first! :)
Matt how difficult is it to go back and forth between the real version of Rowan Tree and the grip version? I can see that being a problem.
Not difficult in my experience. No one actually wants to play all those grips!
I've been playing pipes for over a decade, and while I can do low hand grips reliably, I almost always screw up the high A grip on the pipes. I cannot find out the proper orientation for the chanter that allows all embellishments to be played properly.
Should the grip be timed similar to the beginning of a heavy d throw?
Ish? The entirety of the grip is before the beat whereas only the first Low G of the heavy D Throw is before the beat.
Is it a full D between the Gs, or just a lifted pointer?
Just the pointer finger.
I’m new to bagpipes. How is this different than a throw? Is it just that it doesn’t land on d?
Grips have two sounding tone/longer Low G’s, both falling before the beat. A light D throw has only one Low G and the heavy D throw had one longer sounding tone Low G before the beat and a shorter crossing noise length Low G on/after the beat.
Get a GRIP man!!!
Ha!
Should have named the video that. 😉
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