Bagpipe Lesson 19: How to Properly Play Doublings!
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2020
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In this video, Matt Willis Bagpiper teaches you how to properly play doublings on the practice chanter so you'll be ready to command them on your highland pipes!
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This helped sooo much. DOUBLINGS finally clicked into place.
That's awesome! Which part helped make it click?
Hi Matt This is the lesson I have been waiting for. Clear, concise, and patient for beginners like me. Cheers.
Glad you found it helpful! And thank you for the support!
Echo that.
Thanks
I am a self taught piper in North Texas. Over 10 years ago, I wanted to learn the pipes but had no local teachers. Learning resources were somewhat limited back then. I used "Bagpipe Solutions" by John Cairnes and whatever I could find online. I have played in church and for various memorial services locally and my piping is "ok". I have recently discovered your channel and all I can say is Wow! Your teaching, pdf's and explanations are the best! I am now in the process of "unlearning" and "relearning" many of the things that I thought I knew. Your explanations as to the timing of the embellishments and the effect that you are looking for with them are like the "light bulb" turning on in my head. I wished that I had started out with your teachings. Thank you again!
Where in north Texas? I’ve been in the Dallas area since 2007. Glad you found the channel!
Wichita Falls
These are great exercises! Thank you!
Thanks Matt.
Great practice.
These videos and exercises are an immense help, I've been playing my Blair Digital chanter, I haven't played the "big" pipes in a while, but now I'm getting back to them, I am quite rusty.
As much as I love the electronic chanter, you can't really "feel" the change in notes like you would with a practice chanter or pipe chanter, so you could unknowingly develop bad habits and find your way barreling towards many pitfalls if you are not careful.
I hear you. Plastic chanters vs. blackwood. With the wood you really feel the notes that is hard to describe
Also very informative about the importance & timing of the middle theme note in the doubling.
Very informative on the impact of the different volumes of individual notes on structure of doubling.
Many thanks! Great help...
Great video thanks
Thanks!
Thank you so much! And I see you've also become a patron! Greatly appreciate the support, good sir.
Thanks, Matt, for this lesson
My pleasure!
Amazing tutorial, thanks for your work mate!
Glad you liked it! Plenty of other videos on just about everything piping related here.
Love the Adam Neely reference!
I just started learning in January this year, then Lockdown happened, I have downloaded the PDF Matt, thank you for sharing that, I can practice these and master them before I get back to my tutor 👌
Hope the video is helpful!
@@MattWillisBagpiper it most definitely is Matt, thank you. All the best from Bonnie Scotland 🏴
tq so much!
Helps me well, and very well explained 👍👍
Glad to hear that!
Huge help. Thank you. I'm not new to music by any means, but my first look at pipe music had my gears jamming up a bit. Breaking down these have helped a lot though and it's no where near as overwhelming.
Glad it helped!
Matt, you saved my study of doublings ! I couldn't understand my book. I don't say that I'm clear and accurate, but it will come.... perhaps ! It's a pity to learn totaly alone.... Thanks for all :)
Excellent! And I have another doublings video/exercise coming out very soon (hopefully next Friday)!
Brilliant lesson sir, much obliged!!
This is a terrific resource. Thank you so much.
Do you have a lesson on doublings from high G? That is, from sounded high G to A-F-G sounded F, from high G to A-E-F sounded E, etc?
I haven't done that specifically yet, but I do have a video on High A gracenotes here:
ua-cam.com/video/a2G6pASNcPQ/v-deo.html
Nice👍
Thanks ✌
Um question can you play 79 farewell to Gibraltar
It just dawned on me something you do that is really good. When I learned the doublings, my instructor didn't give me an introductory talk about what they are, what we were trying to achieve, that they could be altered or even what note I was playing - maybe he assumed I'd know? - All I have to do now is overlay the finger movements I know for doublings with notes that I am hitting. Does that make sense?
In other words a little class work ahead as you do in this video would have given me a "road map", if you will, on the how's and where's instead of just diving in. As in here is a "G" doubling, here is the "A" doubling. I know how to do the "A" doubling but I didn't realize it was an "A" doubling. Maybe I am slow, sometimes though.
Thanks for this lesson Matt. I'm having a difficult time with the D doublings in Blair Drummond and The Mason's Apron. Am I misreading the music for these tunes because my D Doublings don't sound like they should? Especially the multiple back to back D Doublings in Blair Drummond. It would be awesome if you'd demonstrate.
That sounds more like something to cover in a lesson. Let me know if you would like me to email your lesson info. 👍👍
@@MattWillisBagpiper yes...I'll email you. I've been thinking of doing a skype lesson with you anyway. I'll email now. Thx
The issue that I've had with doublings, and other embellishments/gracenotes in general, is that in my mind the two grace notes are where my mind hears but-ton as opposed to the actual melody note. Years of playing other wind instruments have taught me that all notes are additive as opposed to subtractive gracenotes to create the illusion of rests and rhythm on bagpipe. Do you have any advice for beginning pipers to change this thought process?
Great question! Hmmm... I think when you realize that the gracenotes are more percussive in their function than tonal it becomes easier to regards them as the tools/process in which melody notes occur (including the short melody notes within our embellishment, like the middle C in a C Doubling or both of the Low G's in a Grip or Taorluath), you'll stop thinking of the active gracenotes in a melodic way. If that makes any sense.
high g D e dubling grace note play please
Matt, I love your videos.
I honestly think you’d be even bigger if you changed your channel name ..... it would actually be your title ... and an honor to have this title.
You should be known to the world as “The Bagpipe Nerd” , before you take it as an insult, think about that......it’s possibly the best name for marketing ever created.... take it now before Andrew Douglas sees this and uses it for his name.
No offense taken, but do I come across nerdy? The bigger problem is re-branding. You can't readily rename a UA-cam channel. Hmmm...
Hey Matt, would you please make a video on how to setup drone reeds. How to stop them from weezing, how to make them good for striking up and cutting off etc. Would help me a lot and I’m sure a lot of people would benefit from it
Well, it's not completely comprehensive, but better than nothing: ua-cam.com/video/lBotVgTWIPs/v-deo.html
As for wheezing, there really isn't a fix, unfortunately. And what I mean is the cause of the wheeze can be different from reed to reed. Sometimes opening them up will fix the wheeze. Other times it'll make it worse. And vice-versa. And sometimes, they just wheeze (I've had to throw out otherwise perfectly good reeds for their wheezing).
Uggh 2 weeks later im still stuck lol
I sucked for about 19 months on doublings. Two weeks is early days!
I do not see the download in the description?
bit.ly/Doublings
It’s right there… There’s a link to this, and my merch store after it. Didn’t either show up? I just grabbed this link off of looking this up randomly online, to make sure that other folks could get the link. In any case, I hope this helps! I know all of this online stuff can make things confusing
@@MattWillisBagpiper This worked. Thanks so much. Love your vids.
Who is the guy who's image shows up in the upper right of the screen? 23:09
That time code is the end of the video... What part of the video is the image in?
@@MattWillisBagpiper
It’s at 17:21. He looks a little like Ty Fry, the drummer.
I'm just getting started, hence the reply to an ancient question. The guy is Adam Neely, another UA-cam music educator (bass player amongst other stuff).
O.m.g. lol .. I was twiddling the shit out of those "sounding tones"
So gracenotes are flagged... not size .. that's gonna make a difference 👍
Not sure I’m following what you say with Grace notes are flagged…?
@@MattWillisBagpiper flagged as 32nd notes ... a birl is true notes I use proper finger positioning... while gracenotes I lift just "that" one finger off the note indicated?
dublings??? lol
Typo in the video?
@@MattWillisBagpiper just an Irish joke. as in Dublin Ireland...