How to Play the Darado (4K) | Highland Bagpipe Technique

[@amanfromaplace]

We started beginner classes for the year this past Monday. One of the new students came in and said "Hi, I'm Matt Willis." Haha, boy do we have a youtube channel for you!

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Ha! That's awesome. Did he share my hairline?

[@amanfromaplace]

@@MattWillisBagpiper he did not, but one of the new snare students did.

[@paulmartin2362]

Great visuals adding the sheet music to the window really helps

[@ParkingLotPiper]

Great lesson Matt. Thank you!

[@piawester9245]

Hey i love your content. Really helpfull in adition to my lessons. I am almost done with scotland the brave. My teacher said after that i can start with the big pipes. So excited

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Best of luck!

[@w.reidripley1968]

When you have STB, you are about ready to make music in public.

[@Mbeale]

Could you do video instruction with a dre, edres and crunluath exercise please?

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

There'll be plenty of piobaireachd stuff in 2024. :) :)

[@seanwennihan6191]

Great Video Matt🍀🍀🍀👍👍👍

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@emanuelamurphy]

The piobaireachd called Lament for Alastair Dearg has this in the ground and I have played this embellishment before

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Maybe this exercise can help bring this embellishment to another level for you. I'll have to look up that piobaireachd!

[@ericfreyssinet2537]

Hello Matt,i am mainly piobaireachd player ,private pupil of Andrew Wright Dunblane for décades.About darodo i got a question.In Cave of gold at the end of the Line you find a Darodo on low A instead of B Jimmy mac intosh was assuming that the PS was wrong in thé way published in book 16.I have never meet a Darodo on low A in any other pibroch. Have you any informations on such a Darodo on low A ? Thanks for your clever, instructives vidéos.

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

I wish I had more info for you on that, but alas, "Cave of Gold" is not a piece I ever had the chance to learn from a proper instructor. I did attend a pibroch workshop taught by Andrew Wright back in the early '00s and I learned SO MUCH about the art of piobaireachd from him.

[@michellebelanger2746]

It's almost like someone sent you my new music. 😯

[@davidhumphreys3028]

I just started learning Susan MacLeod. First two parts were fine, but when I got to the 3rd part I knew it was time for some Matt Willis.

[@bagpipermamunbd]

good

[@raynsmith3635]

Hi Matt. Thanks for the videos. Can I ask what software you use to create your music notation?

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Thanks! I use Finale.

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

Interested. A grip/theomol?

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

It's like a super-grip with three low G's

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

@@MattWillisBagpiper Definitely! Super grip! 😉

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

E doubling with your hands swapped…. 😉

[@JBrooksNYS]

You asked, so at the end of each line of the ground in Cave of Gold, there is this note from a C to an A

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Oooo. Good to know!

[@curtiscosta7122]

Ends on low A in the piobaireachd The Cave of Gold

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

I'll have to take a look. Thanks!

[@curtiscosta7122]

@@MattWillisBagpiper I have also been told that in piobaireachd some styles have you hold the first low g a split second longer then the rest of the notes after it

[@Donnybrook10]

I'd like to hear how these sound on the pipes. So many difficult embellishments don't really pop enough to justify the pain of mastering them. They are just difficult movements with no payoff. The juice isn't worth the squeeze in some cases.

[@rabidrooster6525]

I would disagree, because it's not till they are played at a certain skill level that you can hear the payoff, unfortunately for us mortals it's pretty difficult. You won't hear this much in light music apart from a few strathspeys. Mostly you'll come across this movement in pibroch.

[@Goetterdaemmerung86]

Devil in the Kitchen has the Darado in it I think

[@DanYule55]

The reason that the 3rd part of Susan MacLeod is so hard 😭

[@rookie2shoes735]

I think most people refer to this as a bubble note

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

I have also heard some top-flight players refer to the Rodin as the bubbly note, so I just avoided the term to reduce confusion.

[@paulouellette6881]

Dah-rah-doe