Dunaber music

The Golden Rule of Good Practice

mike — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:02:57 +0000

“Practice what you can’t do”.

That’s it.

A New Jig: “Well Away” (Score & Sound File)

mike — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:23:17 +0000

I knew I’d been away too long from these pages when it took me 20 minutes to track down the once-memorized dunaber login and password. Thanks to the notes on my trusty Blackberry: found. (more…)

Technical Style

mike — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:30:41 +0000

When it comes to technique there’s no one single, absolute and correct way to make things happen. By “things“, I mean the effective movement of fingers. ”Technique”, simply stated, is the way we move our fingers to allow just the right amount of air to flow out of our melody-making chanter, the right amount of air to make gracenotes sound and appropriately place rhythmic flourishes (also known as embellishments). To me, that’s technique. Dead simple.
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The Secret to Never Missing Technique

mike — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:42:11 +0000

So, when it comes to bagpipe music, it’s “all technique all the time”. With nine notes, no rests, no sharps, no flats, no dynamics, technique is pretty much all we have to create rhythm. We’re not so big on understated embellishments.

OK. So the secret to reliable technique: first, it’s a given that you practice hard.
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