I WANT TO LEARN OR IMPROVE - WHAT DO I DO NEXT?

The answer is an easy one - get some quality tuition and practice regularly and with purpose. Putting that into effect isn’t quite so easy. But we offer a number of solutions to try and get you onto that Road to Better Piping ...


1. PERSONAL ON-LINE TUITION
These lessons are delivered on-line by Skype and are dedicated one-to-one personal lessons. Introduced in September 2009 they have been instantly successful with regular pupils in Scotland, England, Australia and Russia. You can choose either a 20 minute or 40 minute lesson and book whenever you want and as frequently as you want. All lessons are with Bruce Campbell.

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2. DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE
You might have just finished one of our workshops or perhaps are struggling for some direction. Either way we have several packages which we hope are right for you.
You can ‘get on’ or ‘get off’ the course at any time you wish. Each session is delivered via email download and is designed to last a month - with four regular sessions which should take a week each.

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3. DISTANCE LEARNING ‘SELF STUDY’ LESSONS
A range of individual ‘self-study’ lessons on sound file download which are designed to ‘sit’ with you as you go through the lesson material. Do the lesson at your own pace, stop when you want, go back over the material until you are happy to finish - and then keep it for those times when you want to revisit the lesson.

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A SIMPLE TEACHING ETHOS
My ethos on teaching piping has certainly evolved over the years.
In that time I have come to separate the elements of piping into musicianship, instrument and technique - and have found that when isolated and developed in a logical and structured sequence can have an amazing effect on a piper's performance level.

I have allied those thoughts into my own structured method of teaching tunes which relies totally on phrase recognition, identification of rhythm and beat as well as other musical elements, and the repetition of ‘beat sections’ until a tune is perfected and memorised.

In this simple system, which I call the ‘Easy Method’, tunes are learned quickly and correctly.

This desire to see the 'light bulb' go on for pipers and make their playing easier and therefore more pleasurable drives me on as a teacher.

Technique is another issue, and if a piper wants to spend a lifetime perfecting it and developing it then that is great - but you do not need to have great technique to present an enjoyable piping performance.

It is that simplicity which provides the background to my teaching style and which is represented in the many instructional papers and books I have authored over the years.