Learn to Play Bagpipe Kit by Pipe Major R.T. Shepherd

Bagpipe Kit with chanter, manual and CD by Pipe Major R.T. Shepherd. If you’d like to learn to play the bagpipes, but you don’t want to invest a whole lot at first, this is the kit for you! This kit includes a Blackwood or Rosewood Practice Chanter, a good-quality reed, and a learn-to-play book and CD.

• Affordable Kit
• Manual, CD, and Chanter
• Choose Blackwood or Rosewood
• Comes with Pipers Choice Reed
• 82 Page Softcover Manual
• Includes 2 Tunes

This is a good quality, basic, how-to manual and CD. It will walk you through everything you need to know to get started with your practice chanter. Follow along with the CD so you know what it is supposed to sound like!

Book Includes:

1. Lots of photographs showing all the finger positions, plus the different note combinations.
2. Time counting exercises including instructions on “foot tapping”, a necessary education to help the piper obtain perfect musical timing.
3. Helps you understand and read music.
4. Detailed descriptions on the playing of marches, strathspeys, and reels.
5. Includes twelve carefully chosen tunes for you to learn.

Written by Pipe Major R. T. Shepherd, principal of the R.S.P.B.A. college board and Pipe Major of the world famous Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band and Ballingry School Pipe Band. Softcover, 82 pages.