Melodies and "Marches"

Bagpipe

Dashboard

Learn to play Breton « Marches » and Melodies. Your Bagpipe will sound brilliantly when you will blow some air in the drones.

This course is entirely built to learn this repertoire, very slow but never boring.

Objectives

  • Know how to place rests in the tune and melodic variations
  • Learn to change the scale to diversify the tune
  • See how to start with a simple tune and enhance it
  • Learn to use advanced techniques on slow tunes

Prerequisites

  • Play with a Bagpipe in Bb
  • The basics and beginner courses must be mastered. Still, this course is for all players, just pick your own pace

Videos for the course

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Advanced

Amzer Gwechall - Melody

A beautiful melody from the Region of Vannes...

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Intermediate

Ton Bastien Gwern 1/2

It is a Breton "march" tune that Hervé played with Serj Riou (on Bombard) and...

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Advanced

Ton Bastien Gwern 2/2

In this 2nd video of your lesson, Hervé shows how to transpose the tune with a few changes to the Chanter and alos or...

Bagpipe

Beginner

La fille d’un riche marchand "A rich merchant’s daughter”

Today a slow tune, a melody from “Haute Bretagne”

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Intermediate

Al lez vamm 1/2

This is a Gwerz that was sung by The Goadec Sisters and Yann-Fañch Kemener.

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Intermediate

Al lez vamm 2/2

2nd part of this trad tune that you can also hear on a CD published by Dastum with legendary singer Marie Joseph Bert...