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Last month, we asked "What is the best piping/ drumming advice you've ever received?" Here are some of your answers:
-Sing your tunes in your head - while you are walking, standing in line, etc.
-"Hold the dots" and when you get to a dotted note, hold it one tenth longer than you think it should be held.
-Work on several tunes at the same time.
-Spend time in practice on fundamentals and practice to make the worst part your best part.
-Everybody was at where you are at some point or another.
-Slow it down, and repeat that part until you get it right. Then, put it back into the context of the entire tune and slowly bring it back up to speed.
-Don't rush in to playing a piece too fast while you are learning it. Play slowly and keep your speed below the level at which you start making mistakes.
-Don't take criticism the hard way, but instead use it to make yourself better.
-You should have left them in the box!
-Steady blowing, don't give up, play from the heart not the mind.
-Relax and enjoy the music..use Rhythmic Fingerwork and keep nailing the basics
-Don't practice mistakes.
-Don't drink coffee or booze "on the day" until you're done your tunes.
-Everytime you play music try to do better than last time, but always play to enjoy the music.
-Repeat a sequence ten times only, then take a break before doing it again.
-It's not a kidney- don't blow the piss outta it!
-Pipe bands are full of people with large personalities.
-As a Tenor drummer, not to play too loudly.
-"Piping, it's fun - that's all that it is about."
-Press the bag harder - one of the major errors committed by beginners.
-Practice all movements slowly and methodically with a metronome, and lift your fingers as high off the chanter as you can while you do so.
-Be confident and ignore everything and everyone around you. Play as if you are by yourself and remember to play the tune from your heart.
-Maintain your instrument carefully: Swab out the joints after every heavy playing, keep the bag and joints airtight, and keep your reeds clean and safe.
-To the make of a piper goes 7 years.
-Practice with a metronome.....or Alan Walters...a metro gnome.
-Slow down and play it right - works for both pipers and drummers
-"Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice, makes a tune permanently perfect." |
