"The Black Bear" bagpipes tutorial 

Wow!!! More than well played!! And the tempo is „top“.

Young „pieperes“ , you are simply TOP❤!

I am working on Black Bear and the part you focused on is the part I have the most trouble with. Great tips on how to break it down.

Thank you Jenna, I am batling with the last two bars of the first line, the timing and the grace notes are getting to me but with a lot of practice I hoep to get it. Thanks for your tuition in the video.

I just moved to Montréal for the REM and I tumbled on your chanel, Black bear is the song that got me into bag piping, can't beleive you are thar close. Thank you for the tutorial.

Your really very helpful. Thank you very much.

Beautifully played

I just stumbled across your site by complete accident tonight! The last time I had seen you, was in your video on practicing strike-ins, which I thought was SOOOO helpful when I started!! Glad to see you are still teaching! Black Bear and Cabar Feidh are two faves of mine, and I sure wish you’d been there when I fought to learn them! You are a gifted instructor!

Very very good video. A lot of good information here and this tune is way harder then you mentioned and you said it was really hard!

Hi Jenna. I am happy to have found your channel. A really good tutorial. I am not yet at Black Bear level, but it was interesting to listen to for the future. Take care.

Cracking tune! Always the second part that gets me!!

Magic, thanks for this & Caberfeidh. A great way of teaching to play along. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Well, I'm looking forward to having a hard time with this song. It has been my favorite since childhood.

I really appreciate your advice about simplification of the music. That works out great for me. Instead of working to improve my ability, I can just bring the music down to my level of play and never improve. If I'm playing with a band inappropriate to my skill level, it may not be what anyone else is playing but at least I can get through the music include myself because in a band, it's all about me. I have trouble with the second beat of the first measure. I just made everything a low G and took out all the gracenotes. Works great. Good advice.

Well done. Island bagpipes T-shirt. Good to see Gord MacDonald's shop is known in Montreal.

Great video

Challenging for me is the first bar, last line of the second part. Great tutorial! You helped me a lot! I can do it at 100 BPM now :-) The band is playing some light music for Burns night and this is in one of our sets…

Brilliant ❤

My favorite also. Im hoping to have it played at my funeral on the way out of church, but hopefully not in the near future.

I am working on this tune and your clip was very helpful. Thanks a lot. I find the last phrase in the tune (before the repetition to be the hardest, also because when paying it feels like you have to press on the accelerator to stay with the beat. Surely a technical tune, requiring patience. Lots of it. Again, Thanks

Hi Jenna I find the hardest part is the last line 2 nd part, just after where you were repeating when going high A to low A. It’s excruciating !! Will keep at it tho using your tips many thanks

BB is a tricky tune, you're dead right. To pull it off, one needs to play it EXACTLY to the written music. It's a popular tune I'm regularly getting asked to play, but as a piece of music I don't find it particularly pleasing myself. Playing it, it always feels more of a technical exercise in technique. Also, I often find bands never ever play it correctly, especially the second part when in faster tempo.

I love your way of playing, your HAIRSTYLE and your so beautiful eyes! Cheers from México!!!💜

Really great tutorial, Jenna, and a very professionally done video overall! I get a LOT of requests for this tune. It's not one I grew up with, perhaps it's more popular in the states? In any case, I'll be sure to send my viewers and my Facebook group members to your Black Bear tutorial! Happy piping :) PS. Thanks again for the lesson!

Black Bear is a My Next Goal piece (79th's Farewell, too, for that technical development the CoP sets forth in its tutor). Maybe you can answer a question I've had for years: I have an old vinyl album of pipe and drum marches with an upbeat Black Bear on it, and I can't tell from the recording quality whether they played it to a strathspey beat or if they simply shaved the tune. It really skips along, at around 120bpm iirc. Not that I was cleverly able to parse such things at the time... one of my first two pipe albums, the other being a recording of the Edinburgh Tattoo 1972 . No matter how you slice it, this was old stuff, which I obtained about 1973. Bit me with the piping bug, you bet. Subscribed... and that's up against competition like Ally and Slow Air Sunday.

“Hold until relieved “

« Here are some tips on how to approach The Black Bear [.] » Franchement ! Je m'attendais à des avis de comment être bien accueilli par un ours noir en Calafornie ; mais non ! Il n'y a finalement que de bons conseils de comment bien jouer la cornemuse.

Nice job! Do you have beginner practice tips for the squeezing/blowing rhythm when transitioning from practice chanter to pipes?

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What do you play for pipes?

Plz basic note

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Yer a wonder lassie

I am from an Arab country. I've been following your clips for a while and it was so amazing. But I want you to book hornpipes marsh. I need to play it for myself. Can you help me note through another program? please reply

Hi! Are you in Montréal? Is the Blackbear official version that your are playing? I would like to learn the real version. Thanks. I’m in Québec City

I am the Black Bear

Pumpkin Fancy next??