Command Your Bagpipe # 11: SPEED Up Your Tunes! - Featuring "The Black Bear" - Bagpipe Lessons

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"The Black Bear" tune HIGHLIGHTED: bit.ly/BBearHigh
In this video, I'll show you my techniques, using the classic melody "The Black Bear" to improve your speed and accuracy on a tune!
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[@lesliethomson2441]

Yet another great video, What is particularly important for us students to notice is how empowering your tutorials are. AND join Matt's Patreon Clan.

[@artjohnstone5723]

Thank you. So easy to follow. Really appreciate this.

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Glad it was helpful!

[@robin8882]

Great Video and a really good strategy to bring the speed up...

[@dalemcgregor3925]

Good tutorial Man! I am sure this will help a lot of pipers. Keep em coming.

[@jesseburnette6028]

Matt, really good job on this common-but VERY difficult tune-for novice pipers. I tried this earlier in my 1.5 year-long piper-sojourn-to-date (a statement unto itself). It was a mess. Put simply, you’re “double timing” on your counting. I found clapping it out to a metronome then trying it slow in double time fashion has helped. The better I got the faster I sped up the metronome. More or less what Matt’s done here. Before your know it, double time sounds like normal time. Matt has forgot more about piping than I know, but I would pick a simpler tune to try this. 79ths Farewell to Gilbrater. Not a easy tune either but is more open. Highland Laddie would be another good one before the Bear.

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Thanks! And while I use "The Black Bear" in this as an example, folks can apply these methods to any tune they want to speed up or improve.

[@mikesadler7811]

Fantastic lesson! This sort of breaking down helps me a lot.

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Glad it helped! Share with any other pipers you think it could help. 👍👍

[@Dales_Workshop]

Nice one, Matt. Tricky tune. Been wanting to learn this one for a long time, and speed up my playing. Thanks for the road map. I'm going to get 'er done.

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Rock on!

[@johnm3859]

Great tutorial Mat. You put things over very well and clearly presented..

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Glad it was helpful!

[@andrewrcoggins]

great stuff, as always

[@chrisf3332]

The video worked perfect could you do highland laddie this way thanks

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

You could use all these same techniques for Highland Laddie. No plans at his time to make a tutorial on that tune (certainly working on outlining/scripting my upcoming highland bagpipe drones series).

[@johnlightfoot3341]

Liked the bit about finding the hidden triplets. Great tutorial. Thanks.

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Glad it was helpful! I'll likely make a separate video all about hidden triplets (and quadruplets!) sometime soon.

[@chrisf3332]

Advice Worked great on the tune could you do the same on itchy fingers thanks

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

You could apply this technique to Itchy Fingers or any tune. There are no current plans for a video tutorial on Itchy Fingers (it's a relatively new tune and I don't have the rights to share the sheet music).

[@geryallan6441]

Nice tutorial! Just curious what metronome app are you using?

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

Tempo by Frozen Ape.