In Which we start private lessons and get friends to join the band

June 27, 2016 Noah and I started our first private lessons with Andrea in her home. Noah got a piece to play for a solo competition. And she explained to me which tunes to memorized and play on the pipes sot hat I could play with the juvenile band. And in one month I could start working on a solo competition piece also for Grade 4 Senior competition. I would probably compete in that in about a year. YIPPEEEE!!! Continue reading “In Which we start private lessons and get friends to join the band”

Mom almost on pipes

 

May 5, 2016 after starting on practice chanter Jan 1, 2016, Andrea said if I can memorized Amazing Grace (which I already had) and High Road to Gairloch, she’d let me borrow a set of pipes from the band. I think I had these to memorized fairly well already, so I started to work on Brown Haired Maiden, Minstrel Boy and Scotland the Brave. Hopefully next week I’ll have pipes to blow into!

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