Bagpipe Lesson 19: How to Properly Play Doublings! 

This helped sooo much. DOUBLINGS finally clicked into place.

Hi Matt This is the lesson I have been waiting for. Clear, concise, and patient for beginners like me. Cheers.

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!

Very informative on the impact of the different volumes of individual notes on structure of doubling.

These are great exercises! Thank you!

Also very informative about the importance & timing of the middle theme note in the doubling.

Thanks Matt. Great practice.

Love the Adam Neely reference!

Many thanks! Great help...

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.

Great video thanks

Thanks, Matt, for this lesson

Amazing tutorial, thanks for your work mate!

Thanks!

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 👌

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.

tq so much!

Helps me well, and very well explained 👍👍

Brilliant lesson sir, much obliged!!

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 :)

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?

Nice👍

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.

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?

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?

high g D e dubling grace note play please

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

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.

Who is the guy who's image shows up in the upper right of the screen? 23:09

I do not see the download in the description?

Uggh 2 weeks later im still stuck lol

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 👍

dublings??? lol