Bagpipe Tutorial for Kids: For absolute beginners from 6 years

By Klinger Susy

Congratulations! You have purchased one of the most comprehensive textbooks for children for learning the bagpipes. Recommended by the best pipers in the world!The children's textbook is suitable for absolute beginners from the age of 6 as a companion book to the lessons. In our bagpipe school, your child will receive pedagogical tuition of the highest level.

The Bagpipe Tutorial for Children contains many tunes composed by our teacher Susy Klinger. Furthermore, it contains the most important finger techniques as well as many exercises that your child needs to successfully learn the bagpipes. Fairy Flora and Patrick MacCrimmon guide your child through the textbook and show how to learn the bagpipes from scratch with playful exercises.

This book is also used for training purposes by many bagpipe youth bands as well as bagpipe schools. Its aim is to give the learning child a technically and musically solid foundation and expert guidance on the route to becoming an accomplished piper.

To complement the Bagpipe Tutorial for Children, we recommend the Bagpipe Tutorial App. The app is the world's most comprehensive multimedia reference work for fingering techniques that are needed for playing the bagpipes. With the help of over 250 soundtracks and visual displays, your child will learn all the note combinations, embellishments, all the tunes found in the Bagpipe Tutorial as well as many important exercises needed in playing the Scottish bagpipes. With the Bagpipe Tutorial App you always have all the videos for the exercises and tunes available with you on your smart phone or tablet for your child.

Susy Klinger's Bagpipe Tutorial for Children sets a milestone in expertly teaching children how to play the Scottish bagpipes. Do you have any questions about playing the bagpipes or are you looking for the right practice chanter? Send us an e-mail. We will be pleased to advise you in detail.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hambsch, Andreas
• Release date: Mar 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9783910702011

Klinger Susy

Susy Klinger studiert seit ca. 2003 die schottische Musik und fährt regelmäßig ans College of Piping nach Glasgow, um Einzelunterricht zu nehmen. 2012 begann Susy den Unterricht bei Willie McCallum, einem der weltbesten Dudelsackspieler und Gastlehrer der Dudelsackschule. Sehr früh in ihrer Dudelsack-Karriere nahm Susy an Wettbewerben teil und erreichte nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern auch in Schottland große Erfolge. So war sie Gesamtsiegerin im Piobaireachd der CLASP in Grad 1 (Wettbewerbe für Amateur-Dudelsackspieler in Schottland) und erzielte 2013 den 3. Platz (von 30 Spielern) beim Archie Kenneth Quaich in Edinburgh. Dies sind nur einige Ergebnisse aus einer langen Liste von internationalen Preisen, die sie gewonnen hat. Susy Klinger spielte einige Jahre bei einer renommierten Dudelsackband in Deutschland, bevor sie zur Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band nach Schottland wechselte, um dort für einige Saisons mitzuspielen. Die Band war zu dieser Zeit sehr erfolgreich in Grad 2 und gewann viele Wettbewerbe. In dieser Zeit konnte Susy enorm viel Erfahrung in allen Bereichen des Dudelsackspielens sammeln. Durch ihren Beruf als Lehrerin kennt sich Susy bestens mit der Lernstoffvermittlung an Kinder und Jugendliche aus. Zurzeit arbeitet Susy sehr intensiv an ihrer Solokarriere und unterrichtet in der Dudelsackschule viele Schüler aus dem ganzen Land. Mit der Gestaltung des Dudelsack-Lehrbuches für Kinder legte Susy einen Meilenstein. Sie entwickelte damit das weltweit erste Dudelsack-Lehrbuch für Kinder.

Book preview

Bagpipe Tutorial for Kids

Together with the fairy Flora MacDonald and

Patrick MacCrimmon you will learn to play the bagpipes

e-Book

Publisher

Bagpipe School

certified by the College of Piping Glasgow

ISBN 978-3-91-070201-1

1st Edition 2023

English

Copyright © bagpipe-tutorial.com

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Compositions / Cover: Susy Klinger / Nils Bosshammer / Andy Hambsch

Contents / Text / Images / Photos: Susy Klinger / Andy Hambsch / Derek Maxwell

Table of Contents

Foreword

Description of the book

Bagpipe Tutorial App

Patrick MacCrimmon

Part 1: All notes

Fingering on the Practice Chanter

Fingering table

Bottom hand notes

Your first and second note – the elephant

Your third and fourth note – the crocodile and the donkey

Your fifth note – the rabbit

Your first tune – the castle

Your second tune – the thistle

Your third tune – the train

Top hand notes

Your sixth and seventh note – the puffin

Your eighth and ninth note – the bird

Your fourth tune – the sea

Your fifth tune – Edinburgh castle

The big quiz

Part 2: Grace Notes

G Grace Note – the fox and the green hill

D and E Grace Note – the owl and the deer

G-D-E Grace Notes – the haggis

Excercises – write notes

The big quiz

Part 3: Doublings

About doublings

Double C – the fairy hill

Double Low A and B – Granny MacKay

Double D – Hector, the wee dog

Double E – Dunvegan castle

Double F – Boreraig

Double High G – the midges

Double High A – lost in the fog

Excercises – write down a tune

The big quiz

Part 4: Embellishments

About Embellishments

Half Strike – Harris and Lewis

Throw on D – Ben Nevis

Grip – Island Skye

Taorluath – Glasgow

Birl – Loch Ness

Birl from High G – Eilean Donan Castle

Find 10 differences

The big quiz

Music theory

Length of notes and time signatures

Scotland and the Scottish thistle

Shortbread and the haggis

Nessi and the MacCrimmons

Foreword

Susy Klinger – Author

Susy Klinger has been studying Scottish music since 2003 and regularly travels to the College of Piping in Glasgow for private lessons. In 2012, Susy began lessons with Willie McCallum, one of the world's best