Bagpipe Lesson 37: How to Properly Play the Taorluath!
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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In this video, Matt Willis Bagpiper gives you his strategies on improving your taorluaths from low A to low A, B to B, and C to C.
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My friend, you've really put a lot of efforts in building a systematic tutorial that helps us fix our bad techniques. And you're really good at that. Thanks so much!
Appreciate the kind words!
This has been my most challenging embellishment. Thanks for this video. Very helpful and good execises I am now using.
I had been meaning to watch this video for some time. Finally got around to it. I am sorry I waited so long. There was a noticeable improvement in the crispness of the movement for me almost immediately. These exercises are now a part of my practice routine. Once again, thanks, Matt!!
Glad you found it useful! Feel free to share with other pipers.
This is a great breakdown! Cheers for the PDF too!
Really great - I thought I needed to work on my taorluaths, now I know I really need to work on them, this was really helpful.
I think you'll get a lot out of my video I'm posting tomorrow as well, which is a "digital breakdown" of Scotland the Brave, and I spend sometime talkign specifically about the timing of the taorluath. I'll post a link to it here once it's live!
Timely content, I really need this as my piping teacher was just getting on us for poor taorluaths amongst other embleshments...
Glad you found this useful! Let us know if this improves your taorluaths!
Just because someone might be a grade 1 piper doesn't automatically translate to being able to create grade 1 piper. Thanks Matt for using your gift of teaching to break down these skills into manageable bites that are fun and achievable. Devil is in the details and being able to get these embellishments correct is going to infuse life into my piping. Keep it coming.
I appreciate you taking the time to write your comment. I’m overjoyed so many have found my videos useful and are helping them improve their piping. Glad you found the channel!
I loved the exercises. On the practice chanter you can “cheat” sometimes for the embelishment kind of sounds the same. On the pipes is quite difficult to get that “cracking” sound. The excercises helped me correct the technique after years of struggling. Thnx
You've done a bril job of breaking everything down. PLUS you've shown what it's supposed to sound like on the pipes! 👍
Glad you found the video helpful! Please share with any other pipers you know that could stand to improve their taorluaths!
Got to attend the Great Falls Pipe Band practice which they have on Thursday nights, was learning about the Taorluth which I completely forgot how to do the embellishments for your video helped me remember how to do it.
Very cool!
Fabulous and finally a video I can follow. Thank you! So incredibly helpful!
So glad you found it useful!
Thank you for posting this extremely helpful video as well as the sheet music. I've been playing about a year, and these technical exercises are helping me tremendously.
Glad it was helpful! Making the world a better place one embellishment at a time. :)
I've been playing for over 50 years, and I find this video helpful, not just for Taorluadhs, but for all luadh movements. I'm hoping that this technique can be extended to improve my crunluadhs!
You could ready "extend" this method for crunluaths. I'll eventually do a series on piobaireachd embellishments, but that's a ways off.
Your videos are immensely helpful. You've made extremely difficult grace note combinations playable for me. Thank you so much for posting these videos.
Thanks Matt, these exercises are really worth doing. Cheers
Thanks for mixing in the PC with the pipe chanter. I am going back to spending more time on basics as I work to improve my pipe playing. Mass Band playing can be an embellishment crusher one only has to listen how Scotland the Brave is crushed... in Mass Band. Bad muscle memory is hard to undo. Your video Should help us all to get back on track as we work to reach unison playing. Crushed embellishments will put one ahead of the beat and dragging embellishments will put us behind the beat. Thanks again
Just food for thought and I'm sure this will step on several toes but my last name is Miller. In highschool several of my friends started calling me Milla because it was shorter and easier. I even started referring to myself as Milla until my dad got pissed and said your name is Miller not Milla. For years since I began the Bagpipes I have called this combination the Taorluath, Tar luu ath. I believe the original creators called it this too. It is what I call Lazy Linguistics. I still call my Uillian Pipes You illian pipes. The U was put there for a purpose. And with the Taorluath the TH was put on the end for a reason.😁
Taorluath and uilleann aren’t English words, but Scots and Irish Gaelic respectively. They do not follow the same pronunciation rules as English. And think about English-there are a TON of words we don't pronounce all the letter (knight for instance). But hey, you do you!
Omg, I should've discovered your channel sooner ! Excellent way to practice it, at least for me, it makes so much sense !!
Well, you've found it now! Tons more videos coming in 2020. Hope this helps improve your taorluath playing. Cheers!
Thanks a lot for the exercice. I'm a french piper in britany "Kemper". It's perfect to get better ! At the next time. (excuse me for my english not perfect!)
Glad you found the channel!
What an excellent video!👍🏻👍🏻
Great video, I really like the way you break the movement down. D Taorluath is my nemesis just now, going to try a similar technique with it
Good luck!
thanks Matt - was having a problem with my B taorluaths
My PM said that I need to work on Taorluaths so here I am lol!
Thank you, Matt! I'm going to follow the exercise all week long to get into the habit of a well performed taorluath. Using this as an addition to the GHB tutor book one, btw. :)
Yeah, I actually got it! Thanks a lot!
Thank you, Matt - this is suoer helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you - I wasn't getting this and now I am.
That’s great to hear! Please share with any other pipers you think this could help. Cheers!
Thanks - helps a lot 👍
Great .... thanks for this video ... and for the PDF.. 👍🙂
Most welcome 😊
thank you fpr all these great videos--i know nothing about bagpipes yet but i think ill buy a chanter and take some lessons--i know that bagpipes are a difficult instrument to get good at, so im absorbing all the videos i can for the time when i get started a few months from now--
Glad you found the channel!
excellent
Awesome vid! Really helped out my timing. Those B's though....
Thanks! Still not a fan of the B to B taorluath? That one is tricky...
@@MattWillisBagpiper i think its the trickiest because you have to stretch your pinky and ring finger to low g
Thank you!
You're welcome! Share with any pipers you think could learn from this. Cheers!
Great video series, thanks Matt.
But how do you manage to play bagpipes in your living room without the neighbours calling the police. What do you for soundproofing?
It’s not all that loud from outside the house. And I only play between 10am and 8pm (never later than 8pm!). I do have soundproofing panels throughout my office, but those are more for reducing echo/reverb in the room than reducing the noise coming out the room...
Finally someone that can pronounce taorluath!!!!!!
Glad I didn't get it wrong! Being from California/Texas and all...
No, its tor-loo-ath
That’s how I hear Canadians say it, though I’m pretty confident the “th” is silient. Scots seems to tend more towards tar than tor sound.
I canna speak the Gaelic, but I say tar-loo, leum-loo, and croon-loo.
Whenever I need to clean up my technique I play s-l-o-w and build up speed gradually. Then practice a tune, something like the Mrs Macdonald Glenuig with its cracking 3rd part, over and over again(its a cracking tune so no chore)
I was taught to practice this just like drum rudiments. Start slow and add speed, any mistake back to slow. Your exercise enforces this. Nice!
Love your lessons. . Can you please do one for Cruhlauths?
I'll eventually do a full piobaireachd series, but it's likely some ways down the line (need to finish my Basics Series first). You could make a crunluath exercise based on this taorluath one though.... (lowercase letter are gracenotes):
g LoA (hold) d LoA e LoA f LoA E, then...
g LoG (hold) d LoG e LoG f LoG E, then...
g LoA LoG d LoG e LoG f LoG E, then finally...
g LoA LoG d LoG e LoA f LoA E
If that makes any sense...
@@MattWillisBagpiper Got it, thanks very much for the fast reply!
Thanks
Gaelic: Taorluath, "quick tower", leumluath, "quick leap", crunluath, "quick crown".
It seems, when played correctly at normal speed, the taorluath has a .....uh, ‘bubbly’ sound?. Keeping this in mind, as well as breaking down the embellishment has been a big help for me.
I'd agree with that. Some folks call the darado the bubbly note, as it has three low G's!
Crunluath video coming?
I have a few crunluath video ideas. Stay tuned!
Taorluath is very difficult, the E gracenote of the taorluath fall on the beat / note at the end of the movement ... So question : on which beat fall the first low g note of the movement between two notes ? on the off beat of just slightly after the off beat ?
Great question! Most taorluaths occur after a quarter note, so I'd say the fist low G occurs a bit after the upbeat/half-way point. So kind of like the quarter note is really a dotted eighth note and the two low G are really 32nd notes. If that helps at all...
Have you made a livestream before
I haven't live streamed on UA-cam, but I have on Facebook.
Ok
What is the tune in the intro? Having a mental blank
That is part 2 of the classic 6/8 March "Bonny Dundee"
if a person were to practice bagpipes 10 hours a day, i wonder how good they could get in 6 months? i may do just that--i did it with guitar for 12 hours a day on average, and i got very good very fast---
It'd take a bit of time to get your face strong enough to play 10 hours a day, but as with anything, you'd move quite quickly (if you didn't go insane!). With proper instruction, you'd likely be able to play a good 10-12 tunes (or more) on a full set of highland pipes if you really did put 70 hours a week into practicing/learning.
They also give your arms and chest a good workout.
I can play amazing Grace now
because if you do shoutouts make sure I get shout out but you don't have to if you don't want to talk to you I would like and subscribe to your channel and put in post notifications on
I can't play a friggin radio.
But hopefully you can at least play a taorluath now! 😉
I can’t tell which finger is moving at any given time, this is piping, not magic, we need to see how the hands move
But I talk through which fingers to move, though I do refer to them most often by their gracenote names (g, d, e). If those are confusing, that totally okay, but I didn’t intend for this to be for beginners, but intermediate learners. I’m putting out videos as quickly as I can, but there’s so much to cover, it’ll be a while before I can get to it all. Apologies if this video was more frustrating than helpful for you.
@@MattWillisBagpiper Pay no mind to me, I was a frustrated beginner piper just venting. I'm slower than the rest, so I need baby steps; even slow motion is too fast for my pea brain to keep up! You're doing a fine job, keep it going!
Well, the good news is the video I'm editing now is ALL about changing notes with gracenotes, and I do so at very slow speeds. Hope to have it up tomorrow!
Here's my video showing slowly how to change notes with gracenotes! ua-cam.com/video/n0UaUJTZVtU/v-deo.html
Oh my God, these UA-cam piper instructors are all the same. The talk talk talk talk talk, and they move their hands and fingers too fast for anyone to learn. Why can’t they talk less, and move slowly, step by step. Playing a four note embellishment in 0.01 seconds helps no one
Did you not find thus useful? If not, I’m sorry. Have videos in separating notes with gravesites, but am still working on a good changing notes with gracenotes video. I didn’t invoice end this to be an instructional video on those fundamentals, but rather how to use those skills to build a solid embellishment. I’d there a specific question you have that I can try to answer?