tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004733378752424412.post9211230064423201185..comments2023-06-05T04:31:43.724-05:00Comments on Piping Girl: Bagpipe Tunes I'm Working OnUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004733378752424412.post-91575601626976250572011-04-16T22:45:34.109-05:002011-04-16T22:45:34.109-05:00I would like to recommend you watch the Rapalje vi...I would like to recommend you watch the Rapalje video "Jenny Dang the Weaver/Itchy Fingers" and watch the pipers fingering.This piper is faboulos.You can find the vid on youtube.Rapalje is a Dutch group who play Celtic music.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004733378752424412.post-16012857867405706182010-12-01T22:18:27.914-06:002010-12-01T22:18:27.914-06:00Just found your blog. A hint to learn Itchy Finge...Just found your blog. A hint to learn Itchy Fingers....though you probably know it by now. It is easier to play without looking at the music so first memorize it and then speed it up...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004733378752424412.post-81635907388927410392010-01-04T10:54:03.289-06:002010-01-04T10:54:03.289-06:00Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your ol...Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004733378752424412.post-53914143465277677272008-11-19T05:53:00.000-06:002008-11-19T05:53:00.000-06:00if you can get your hands on it .."Piping because ...if you can get your hands on it .."Piping because we enjoy it" has the best rendition of "itchy fingers" I have ever heard anywhere. I believe either Bruced Gandy or Scott MacAuley played this tune though it could have been Ed Neigh on the recording...good luck <BR/><BR/>it is scorching hot fastAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1004733378752424412.post-57361271962905446892008-11-19T05:45:00.000-06:002008-11-19T05:45:00.000-06:00many years ago I had the great good fortune of hav...many years ago I had the great good fortune of having Pipe Major James Troy as my judge.He along with Bruce Gandy and a few others told me this one real easy trick to playing real fast...are you ready for it.....S l o w D o w n. In certain elite military units of the us army they have a saying that goes like this: "slow is smooth and smooth is fast" <BR/><BR/>when you practice this tune and every other tune take it out of its time slow it way down, exagerate your finger movements way off your chanter. Make your grace notes very big.almost like melody notes except you slow the melody notes down as well. what you are trying to do is develope your muscle memroy and synaptic relays between your fingers and your brain.<BR/>google Scott MacAuley solo and watch how high his fingers come off the chanter when he plays...co incidentaly he gave me the same advice during a chance airplane ride in the late 80s...I wish I could have taken lessons from him...but it is sound advice that I have taken and it has helped my playing real hard tunes...and life in general.<BR/>May God bless your life and your pipes,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com